ICED SUGAR COOKIES...

My all time popular cookies that kids love. They add a burst of colour to the surroundings and are fascinating. They are very delicious too, as they are almond butter cookies with a sugar icing. I've been doing these for almost 8 years now, and though they aren't very easy to do, they are therapeutic.



Before icing...

                                  Viola!! After icing!!
  
Ingredients:
Butter – ¾ cup (room temp)
Castor Sugar- 1 cup (I grind sugar crystals in my coffee grinder)
Egg – 1 / beaten
Flour – 2 ½ cups
Salt – 1 pinch
Almond Essence/Extract – 1 tsp
Vanilla Essence/Extract – 1 tsp

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 190deg C. Keep 5-6 ungreased cookie sheets on hand.
• Beat the butter and sugar till fluffy and light.
• Add the salt + vanilla essence + almond essence and beat for 30 seconds.
• With a spatula mix in the beaten egg.
• Put in all the flour in one go, and gather together to make a firm dough.
• Chill for at least 30 minutes in wrap.
• Roll out to ¼ inch thickness and cut with assorted cookie cutters.
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 12-14 minutes, watching closely so that they don’t get too brown.
• Remove from oven; let the cookies lay on the sheet for a minute. Remove to racks to cool.
• This recipe makes approximately 8 dozen 1 ½” small cookies
  
  For the icing, I use powdered sugar mixed with just enough water to make it thick & flowing, then colour according to requirement, and drizzle it on the cookies. I leave them to dry out overnight, and sometimes give them a minute in a hot oven to get rid of any moisture (depends on the weather actually). Practice makes this one better each time.
  

  

  

  

  
  
  O when the snails, go marchin' in...

  

  Perfect to be boxed & gifted...birthdays, festivals, anniversary's...whatever. Just cut them according to a theme & colour code them !