Basic Sugar Cookie Recipe The Sweet Adventures of Sugar Belle The dough DOES not need to be refrigerated. Thats why I like it. The dough needs to rest a little after mixing, it will firm up a little bit after a minute or two. The recipe doubles well. Baking times are approximate. You must KNOW your oven. Irresistible icing decorations readytouse on cookies, brownies and candy. Using a 2 or 3 size tip, outline your cookie with icing. If youre outlining a very detailed shape, you may need to use a thicker consistency of icing so the. Watch them the first few times you bake them. Get a thermometer, and do not over bake. If the cookies are browning you have gone too far. Apple Pie Recepie. This dough can be flavored any way you like. The cookies freeze well. There is a lot of leavener in these cookies. This is not a typo. Hi Sugar Belle I made these cookies tonight. Theyre wonderful, not very sweet at all which should be a nice contrast against the sweet icing. This has been my goto gingerbread cookie recipe for years. It is pleasantly spicy, but mild enough for a picky child to enjoy. The royal icing with lemon is a must. Serving madefromscratch baked treats in Homewood, Alabama. Take a tray of our iced and traditional cookies, cookie cakes, or soontobe famous cheese straws to your. Let me start with the dough recipe that I use. Ive tried several, and I always come back to this one that a good friend gave me because it makes a nice, soft cookie. Cookie Icing RecipesCookie Icing Without Corn SyrupIve shared my favorite sugar cookie and now have some great new sugar cookie recipes for Summer. I have also shared a few fun ways to decorate the sugar. This will harden and it will hardens quite quickly, its the perfect icing to decorate cookies, if desired you may omit the vanilla, I like to add it in, the amounts. Best Tasting Sugar Cookie Icing 4 ingredients and 5 minutes People have been begging for this frosting recipe for years. Now you have itThe general rule is less leavener so they dont spead, but Ive never been one to follow the rules. This recipe does spread a little. If you dont like that add a little flour. Speaking of flour, start with 2 12 cups. Add another 14 of a cup if the dough seems to sticky. If you dont like salt, leave it out altogether. If you only have salted butter, use that and reduce the salt. I prefer decorating day old cookies. They are less likely to leach oil back into your icing if they have had a day or two to dry out. They are still soft, however.