I've just finished my holiday baking. I intended to make a few more batches, but we really don't need them, and I made the perfect amount to thoroughly enjoy the entire process.
This year, I relied completely on old recipes. I wanted to honour the recipes passed down from my grandmother, and also found a couple old note cards of recipes I'd forgotten I had.
My mom joined me for a day of baking, and today I finished the rest.
We made:
- brown sugar shortbreads
- lemon cranberry bites
- amazing black currant window cookies (this year's favourite)
- Danish almond cookies
- dollar cookies
- the "best" sugar cookies.
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Pretty, no?
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I tracked my progress with the sugar cookies. They're a labour of love! Took me over three hours to frost 80 cookies.
The best sugar cookies recipe:
2/3 cups butter , 3/4 c sugar, 1tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt, one egg, 1tsp vanilla (or peppermint!), and 1tbsp milk. 2 cups flour.
Cream butter in mixer, add sugar, baking powder, and salt. Mix well. Add egg, vanilla, and milk. Mix til combined.
Beat in flour. If you have a stand mixer, I set mine to stir. It takes a little longer, but it all gets incorporated and I don't have to knead by hand.
Roll, cut out and bake at 375f for 7 min a batch until very lightly browned.
2/3 cups butter , 3/4 c sugar, 1tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt, one egg, 1tsp vanilla (or peppermint!), and 1tbsp milk. 2 cups flour.
Cream butter in mixer, add sugar, baking powder, and salt. Mix well. Add egg, vanilla, and milk. Mix til combined.
Beat in flour. If you have a stand mixer, I set mine to stir. It takes a little longer, but it all gets incorporated and I don't have to knead by hand.
Roll, cut out and bake at 375f for 7 min a batch until very lightly browned.
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Royal icing recipe:
-1 cup icing sugar
-1 egg white
-1/4 tbsp lemon juice
(For the blue I used one drop food colouring)
Beat in a mixer on low til combined, then beat on high til stiff peaks form.
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| Start by outlining, let dry for an hour or so. |
(I have a really handy tool for outlining. It's a bottle that is folded like a spring. Hard to describe... I bought it at the kitchen store in town. It's fitted with a cap and adaptor for all the icing tips)
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| My frosting set-up. I rest my spoon on the spatula, and keep a toothpick handy on the handle of my bowl. |
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| Drop a teaspoon worth of frosting on each cookie. |
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| Use the toothpick to drag the frosting around the cookie, within the lines. |
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| Once the background is dry, add detailing in another colour. |
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| Ready for gifting. Merry Christmas!! |
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