Snowflake Cookie Recipe

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Snowflake Cookie Recipe

Prep: 20 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch + standing

Yield: 36 Servings

80 10 90

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 to 1 teaspoon almond extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
ROYAL ICING:
2 pounds confectioners' sugar
6 tablespoons meringue powder
3/4 cup warm water
Sky blue gel food coloring
White edible glitter and superfine sugar
Ribbon

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well.
Divide dough into fourths. Cover and refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until easy to handle.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out one portion to 1/8-in. thickness. (Refrigerate other portions until ready to use.) Using a variety of sizes of floured snowflake cookie cutters, cut out snowflakes.
Carefully place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Using small decorating cutters, cut out desired shapes to create designs in some of the snowflakes. Use a toothpick to help remove the cutouts. With a plastic straw, poke a hole in the top of each small cookie.
Bake medium and large snowflakes at 375° for 6-1/2 to 7 minutes and small snowflakes for 6 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool. Repeat with remaining dough.
For royal icing, in a large bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar and meringue powder. Add warm water; beat on low speed for 1 minute. Beat on high for 4-5 minutes or until stiff peaks form. Tint half blue. Leave remaining icing white; cover and set aside.
With blue icing and a round tip, outline half of the cookies; fill in centers with blue icing and let dry completely. With white icing and a round tip, outline each blue-colored cookie and create snowflake designs. Let dry completely.
On the remaining cookies, repeat process using white icing on white frosted cookies. Thread a ribbon through the hole in each small snowflake and through the cutout in each medium and large snowflake. Yield: about 3 dozen.

Originally published as Snowflake Cookies in Taste of Home Christmas Country Style 2009

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Reviewed on Aug. 05, 2012 by gwashington1961

This is yet another Snowflake Cookie Recipe. Now the decoration is all happening by your methods of varying layers of icing upon each cookie. Be certain to purchase different colors of the fine (1/8 " on sale for $.25 to $.33 on sale - lots of colors to chose from) ribbon! Just plain ribbon - no lace edges or outer face of the ribbon. The star of each 'hanging cookie' is the item you have baked & decorated!