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Painted Sugar Cookies Recipe
Yield: About 5 dozen cookies
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This
is a perfect project to do with kids. When mine were smaller, we made
these every year for
Christmas
as well as for other holidays such as
Easter.
Now that my kids are teenagers and "more advanced bakers", we have fun
making
other cookies, as well. |
1/2 cup butter or margarine, room temperature
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Corn syrup paint:
4 teaspoons corn syrup
1 teaspoon water
Four different
paste colors or liquid food coloring
In a large bowl, cream the butter, shortening and sugar with
an electric mixer. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until light. In a small
bowl, stir the soda, salt and flour together. Stir the dry ingredients into the
creamed ingredients until well mixed. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill the dough
for at least 30 minutes.
Divide the dough in half. Wrap half in plastic wrap and return
to the refrigerator. Roll out the dough to 1/8-inch thickness on a lightly
floured surface. Cut cookies with a cookie cutter of any design and place on
ungreased cookie sheets about 2 inches apart.
Put 1 teaspoon corn syrup and 1/4 teaspoon water into each of
4 different custard cups. Tint each of the four mixtures with food coloring.
Stir each well.
Paint the unbaked cookies before baking using a small
paintbrush. For more fun, press cookie dough through a garlic press to make
"hair" for gingerbread figures.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Bake for 9 to 10 minutes or
until cookies are lightly browned. Remove the cookies with a spatula and cool on
wire rack.
Recipe by Beatrice Ojakangas,
TV Food Network
