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Sugar Cookie Frosting

Holly P. — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:50:49 +0000

This is the frosting that I always use to make sugar cookies, but its also tasty on cupcakes.

Recipe: Frosting

Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter (softened)
2 cups of powdered sugar
3 tablespoons of milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

Mix all of the ingredients together until the consistency becomes smooth and frosting like.

Divide the frosting into several bowls and then add a couple of drops of food coloring into each bowl and mix it in until the color is mixed in.

Once you have several colors of frosting made then cover your working surface with wax paper or parchment paper and spread out your sugar cookies and begin frosting them.

Add sprinkles, candies, and/or nuts to the frosted cookies but you’ll need to add them directly after frosting, because once the frosting sets the sprinkles will not stick. So, it works best to work on one cookie at a time.

After, the cookies are all frosted and sprinkled to your liking let them sit for a while (30 -45 minutes) on the wax paper so that the frosting can dry or set. Then you’ll want to put them in airtight container to store them.

Quick Notes

You can buy Gel food colors at stores where baking products are sold and you’ll get better, truer colors than if you use the kind of food colors that can be found at the grocery store.

Also, put an apple in the container with your decorated cookies to keep the cookies fresh longer.

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Holiday Sugar Cookies

Holly P. — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:50:54 +0000

This recipe has been a favorite Christmas tradition for my family as long as I can remember and I continue to make these every year.

After baking the cookies I gather the family around and we have a great time decorating them. You can bake these cookies for any occasion or holiday. Pair this recipe with my frosting recipe and prepare for the many compliments you’ll receive because they are as yummy as they are pretty!

Recipe: Sugar cookies

Ingredients

1.5 cups powdered sugar
1 cup margarine or butter softened
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. almond extract
1 egg
2.5 cups all-purpose flour (don’t use self-rising flour)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar

Instructions

Mix powdered sugar, margarine, vanilla, almond extract and egg.
Stir in remaining ingredients
Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours.
Heat oven to 375.
Divide dough into halves. Roll each half 3/16 inch thick on lightly floured cloth-covered board.
Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters.
Place on lightly greased cookie sheet and bake until edges are light brown (7-8 minutes)
Frost and decorate cooled cookies with colored sugar or sprinkles

Quick Notes

You could sprinkle your cookies with granulated sugar before you bake them instead of frosting them, but they’re so yummy with the frosting that I can’t imagine eliminating the frosting. Plus, you’d miss out on the funnest part of the whole sugar cookie experience!

The frosting and sprinkling stage has become a yearly Christmas tradition in our family. I divide the frosting into several plastic bowls and add food coloring so we have a variety of colors and then pull out 10-12 different types of sprinkles and we have lots fun decorating.

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Pie Crust

Cali — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:34:37 +0000

Recipe: Pie Crust

Ingredients

2.5 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup butter, chilled, cut into 1” pieces
1/4 – 1/2 cup cold water

Instructions

In food processor, combine salt, flour and sugar
Add butter, process until it resembles course meal (15 seconds)
Pour water in slowly until dough just holds together (no more than 30 seconds)
Turn the dough out, form into a ball
Flatten into a disk, cover with plastic wrap, refrigerate for one hour
Remove, roll into a 12” circle, lifting and turning
Transfer to pan, trim edges, cover with plastic, return to fridge
Create filling
Let crust sit at room temperature 10 minutes
Fill pie, bake

Cooking time (duration): 120

Number of servings (yield): 1

Meal type: dessert

My rating:4 stars: ★★★★☆

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Homemade Marshmallows

Cali — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:03:39 +0000

Here is a fantastic recipe that I found for making homemade marshmallows. Once you’ve had these, you’ll never be able to go back to eating the store bought versions again! In addition to the recipe below, I’ve got two videos to walk you through the process.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Recipe: Marshmallows

Ingredients

1 cup powdered sugar
3.5 envelopes unflavored gelatin
1/2 cup cold water
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup hot water
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

Oil 13×9x2 pan, dust bottom and sides with powdered sugar
In a large bowl, sprinkle gelatin over cold water, let stand to soften
In saucepan, cook sugar, corn syrup, hot water, and salt over low heat, boil mixutre without stirring until 240 degrees, about 12 minutes
Remove pan from heat, pour sugar mixture over gelatin mixture stir until gelatin is dissolved
With mixer, beat mixture on high until white, thick and nearly tripled in volume, about 6 minutes
In separate bowl, beat whites until they hold stiff peaks
Beat whites and vanilla into sugar mixture until just combined
Pour into pan, sift 1/4 cup powdered sugar over top
Chill marshmallows, uncovered, until firm, at least 3 hours
Run thin knife or spatula around edges, turn out, cut into cubes
Sift remaining powdered sugar into bowl, toss marshmallows

Quick Notes

Marshmallows can be served immediately, best to keep in fridge a few more hours to get a bit more moisture out before allowing to sit at room temperature.

Meal type: dessert

My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★

Thanks to Central Market for the recipe.