Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies

By peridot728

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Colored sugar and milk, for decorating, or Royal Icing, recipe follows
• 2 pounds confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons meringue powder (egg white powder)
• Food coloring, as desired

Details

Servings 1
Preparation time 250mins
Cooking time 280mins
Adapted from foodnetwork.com

Preparation

Step 1

Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer. Beat in the eggs and vanilla.

Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a second large bowl and mix well. Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture 1 cup at a time. Chill the dough for 3 to 4 hours.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment. Roll out the dough and cut it into shapes with cookie cutters or a knife. Place the shapes on the prepared cookie sheet. If decorating with colored sugar, brush the cookies with milk and sprinkle with colored sugar (if using royal icing, leave unfinished). Bake until the cookies are just beginning to brown around the edges, 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the size of the cookies.

Remove the cookies to a rack to cool completely. If using royal icing, decorate the cookies as desired.

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