I have a small collection of cookie cutters. They are cute
and hang under a shelf in our kitchen. However, I’ll admit, I rarely bake sugar
cookies. I never wanted to make up a bunch of colored frosting pipe designs
on them and have a cookie with way too much frosting. Recently I read a post at
one of my favorite blogs, Annie’s Eats, that had a tutorial on royal icing. It
looked pretty simple. You whip up the frosting in the mixer, pour some into a
piping bag, pipe around the edges of the cookie and let it harden. Then, you
water down some of the icing, pour it onto the cookie, and use a tooth pick to
help it spread out. It looked easy
enough, but you never know! I tested it out back in February when I made the
heart sugar cookies. Surprisingly enough, they were pretty easy! The end result
was a pretty cookie with a thin layer of royal frosting that hardened as it
cooled. It is nice because you can stack or wrap up the cookies without the
frosting getting all messy.
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Since the first attempt went pretty well, I decided
to try again. This time, with cookie cutters that celebrate my heritage and my husband’s
name-sake, St. Patrick’s Day. Shamrock cookies! I couldn’t find my shamrock
cookie cutter, so I took Baileigh and headed to my favorite local baking shop,The Calico Bean Market. They have an entire room in the back dedicated to
baking! Cookie cutters, food coloring, flours, misc. baking ingredients and an
ENTIRE wall dedicated to sprinkles. If you ever need baking ingredients, check
it out! It’s on Bluff Street, by the 4th street elevator. The owner
is super friendly and helpful, too! While at Calico Bean I picked up meringue
powder (for the icing), shamrock and butterfly cookie cutters, green food
coloring and green and purple sprinkles. I baked the cookies on Saturday night,
let them cool and then Baileigh and I got to work Sunday frosting the cookies!
I baked shamrocks for me to decorate and the butterflies for her. She did an excellent
job frosting using my new decorator bottles (via Pampered Chef) and enjoyed
using lots of sprinkles!
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| My Shamrock cookies! |
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| Baileigh's butterfly cookies! |
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| Hard at work! |
Cookie Recipe:
(The only thing I changed was using Almond extract for the
vanilla. I like almond flavoring better in sugar cookies for some reason!)
The cookies looked and tasted delicious! I made way too much
frosting, so I have plenty to use when I made Easter cookies in a couple weeks!
Here are two blogs that have beautiful sugar cookies! Both have tutorials too which help beginners like me!
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