These gorgeous sugar cookies will wow all your guests this winter! Make sure to buy some wilton cake spray to get the effect.
Snowflake Sugar Cookie
Ingredients:
- 1 C of butter
- 1 ½ C Powder sugar
- 1tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 3 C of flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cream of tarter
- Cookie Cutter: Snowflake
Icing ingredients:
- 4 egg whites
- ½ C cream of tarter
- ½ C vanilla
- 4 ½ C powder sugar
- Pink and purple wilton cake spray
- 1 disposable piping bags fitted with number 2 tip
- 1 squeeze bottles
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside
Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, powder sugar, vanilla and egg and mix until combined and creamy
Using a large bowl, combined the flour, baking soda and cream of tarter
Gradually add in the dry ingredients and mix on low speed
Using your hands continue to mix until fully combined
Lightly flour a cutting board and knead the cookie dough a couple of times
Roll out the dough to about ½ inch thick
Cut out a few snowflakes and place onto the cookie sheet
Bake for 8 minutes or until lightly golden brown
Repeat steps until completely out of dough
Let cookies cool completely
Using the standing mixer, combine the egg whites, cream of tarter, vanilla and powder sugar and mix until combined and stiff peaks form
Scoop some icing into the piping bag and set aside
Add in a few tablespoons of water into the remaining white icing and mix until combined
Pour icing into the squeeze bottle
Using the piping bag, pipe a outline around the cookies
Fill in with the thinner white icing
Let cookies dry overnight
Place paper towels onto a table or counter and place a cookie in the middle
Using the pink spray and carefully spray the middle of the snowflake
Using the blue spray, carefully spray the outer edge of the snowflake
Repeat steps with the remaining cookies
Let cookies dry for 30 minutes before piping detail onto the snowflakes
Once snowflakes are dried, pipe designs onto the snowflakes
Let cookies dry for a hour before enjoying.