Melt-In-Your-Mouth Iced Sugar Cookies
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 large egg
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Assorted colors paste food coloring
- Decorator sprinkles
- Beat butter at medium speed of an electric mixer 2 minutes or until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating well. Add egg, and beat well. Combine flour and next 3 ingredients. Add to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended. Stir in vanilla.
- Roll dough to 1/4" thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut with decorative 3" cookie cutters. Place 1" apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 350u0b0 for 9 minutes. Cool completely on wire racks.
- Spoon about 2/3 cup white Royal Icing into a decorating bag fitted with decorating tip #3 (small round tip). Pipe white icing to outline cookies and to outline detail desired inside cookies.
- Divide remaining Royal Icing into a separate bowl for each color desired; color as desired with paste food coloring. Slowly stir just enough water into each bowl of icing to make "flow-in icing" that is still thick but flows into a smooth surface after stirring. (Add water a little at a time; if flow-in icing is too watery, it may not dry properly and may run under outline into another color area.)
- Fill decorating bags (using no tips) about half full of flow-in icing. Snip off small tip of cone. Pipe desired colors of icing to cover areas between the Royal Icing outline; spread icing into corners and hard-to-reach areas using a wooden pick, as necessary. Add flow-in icing 1 color at a time, allowing icing to dry before changing colors. Avoid using excess icing, or it will spill over into another color area. If air bubbles form in icing, use a sterilized straight pin to remove them. Decorate with assorted candies and decorator sprinkles while icing is still wet.
butter, sugar, egg, allpurpose, baking soda, salt, cream of tartar, vanilla, colors paste food coloring, sprinkles
Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/melt-in-your-mouth-iced-sugar-cookies (may not work)