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Easter Cut-Out Cookies

Easter Cut-Out Cookies

Ingredients For: Easter Cut Out Cookies

1 stick margarine or butter (1/2 cup)
½ cup sugar
1 egg
3 TBS sour cream
1 tsp almond extract (vanilla can be substituted if you wish)
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
2 cups all purpose flour

Icing For: Easter Cut Out Cookies

1 box of confectioner’s sugar
1 tsp almond extract
1 ½ TBS egg white powder (found where they sell cake decorating supplies) warm water
food coloring, paste or powder

Instructions For: Easter Cut Out Cookies

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Beat butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl until thoroughly blended. Add egg and beat well. Add sour cream, flavoring, baking power and baking soda.
Add flour, 1 cup at a time.
Dough will be soft and can be refrigerated to harden, but it’s not absolutely necessary.

What is necessary for Easter cut-out cookies is putting plenty of flour on your wax paper surface and on your rolling pin. Lay out a sheet of about 2 feet of wax paper. Sprinkle with flour. Get a large chunk of dough and sprinkle with a little flour.

Now roll out dough, cut and place Easter cut-out cookies on a baking sheet. Bake Easter cut-out cookies at 350 degrees for about 14-15 minutes until light brown. Let rest a few minutes after removal from the oven and then lift cookies with a spatula to keep them from sticking and they cool further.

To make icing for Easter cut-out cookies, mix powdered sugar and egg white powder (also call meringue powder) with 6 TBS warm water and 1 tsp of almond extract. The egg whites provide a bit of hardening to the icing though you could make this without it. You have to wait longer for it to dry in between applying other icing decoration, though.

If the icing is not liquid enough keep adding warm water, one tablespoon at a time until it is thick but fluid enough for spreading.

Divide Easter cut-out cookies icing into coffee mugs or bowls and tint to different colors. This icing will harden quickly so you might cover each with plastic until you use it. Add a little water if it becomes too hard.

You can use the back of a spoon for spreading icing on your Easter-cut out cookies .

Dragees are tiny silver and gold balls that are now nade in different colors. I’ve used dragees and little round candy confetti for my decorations.

To make decorations with icing, you can place icing in small pastry bags fitted with round decorating tips. These can be bought from baking stores.>/p>

The Easter-cut out cookies recipe can be doubled for gift giving. Freeze the dough until ready to use if you want to work in batches over time. Easter-cut out cookies. makes about 2 to 2 1/2 Dz. Easter-cut out cookies.

Easter is a special time of year like Christmas, making cut-out cookies is an important part of the holiday especially for the children.

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