Christmas Light Cookies #Christmas #Cookies

Brace yourselves. i'm no longer a lovable cookie decorator. but, I pushed through and made these Christmas lighting fixtures Cookies to electrify my child.

I saw a fuzzy photograph of a few cupcakes on Pinterest wherein they grew to become mini M&Ms sideways to appear to be Christmas lighting on a string. I notion that become so lovely and smart, but additionally: so clean, but staggering. large emphasis on the clean.

If I haven’t stated to you earlier than, my Camille is very into M&Ms (she publicizes it yem-a-nems), and that i comprehend it’s due to the brilliant colorings. i purchased a bag of mini M&Ms for this, and got to work making a small batch of reduce-out sugar cookies and a small batch of royal icing.

INGREDIENTS

• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 3/4 cup flour, plus extra for rolling
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• pinch of salt
• For the small-batch royal icing:
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 large egg white
• For decorating:
• 1 small tube of black icing for writing
• handful mini M&Ms

INTRUCTIONS

1. In a small bowl, whisk collectively the flour, baking powder and salt.
2. In a medium bowl, beat together with an electric mixer the butter and sugar. as soon as light and fluffy, add the egg yolk and vanilla and almond extracts.
3. once well integrated, sprinkle over half of the flour combination and beat gently until blended, then sprinkle over the relaxation. Beat till no streaks of flour stay, however be cautious no longer to over-mix.
4. dust a easy counter pinnacle with flour, and dump the dough out onto it. acquire it into a ball and press it right into a 1/2" thick spherical disk. Flour your rolling pin, then roll out the dough out massive sufficient to reduce out approximately eight shapes. region the shapes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat. accumulate the dough scraps and re-roll to cut out four greater shapes and area them on the cookie sheet. You need to get 12 cookies.
5. vicinity the cookie sheet inside the freezer for the minutes whilst you preheat the oven to 350.
6. once the oven is warm, bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, until the rims of the cookies simply begin to show brown. allow them to sit down at the sheet a few minutes before moving them a wire rack to cool absolutely.
7. once the cookies are cooled completely, make the royal icing: in a small bowl, combine the powdered sugar and lemon juice.
8. Beat the egg white in a small bowl to loosen them, after which measure out 2 tablespoons of egg whites and add them to the bowl with the sugar.
9. Whisk collectively the icing, starting slowly, and trust that the sugar will melt and it becomes liquid. resist the urge to feature any extra liquid to the bowl, and alternatively just keep whisk slowly.
10. whilst the icing comes together, spoon a small amount onto every cookie, and use an off-set spatula to spread it almost to the rims.
11. allow the royal icing harden completely on the cookies earlier than intending.

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