Abby and I with a sample of our gingerbread trees
Allison and her snowlady from Monday's snowfallThanks to my cookie baking friend, Sarah, we have a new recipe for frosting cut-out cookies at Christmas time. We love this frosting because the colors are bright and shiny looking. Abby and I made 10 dozen cookies, so we needed 3 recipes of the frosting in order to decorate them all. Here is the recipe: 2 cups powdered sugar
2 Tbl. milk
2 Tbl. corn syrup
1 t. almond extract
gel food coloring (We found it at Walmart with the cake decorating supplies.)
Thanks Sarah!
If you decide to decorate cookies with your kids, I have a tip for you. Make the cookies one day and decorate them all the next. We have to make a lot of cookies at our house to make them last at least 2 or 3 days, so trying to make the dough, roll and cut out the cookies, make the frosting, and decorate them makes for a very long and tiring day not to mention the big clean-up job afterward! We all enjoy the process more if we take two days to do it.
3 comments:
Those cookies look really good... do you think maybe you could freeze them and send us some? ;-P
By the way Allison, that snowlady is just "lovely"! Love you all!
10 dozen!??!?! That is ALOT of cookies!!! heheheheh you trying to put on a couple pounds or do you give them out? ;) Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Tania
Oh Sydni! I'm glad you made your cookies! They look wonderful! It was a perfect week for baking and decorating! Don't you love that frosting too? It makes everyone look like an "expert" baker! Once you buy gel colors, you'll never go back to food coloring. It last forever and the colors are amazing!
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