Grinch Sugar cookies
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 C of unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 1 1/2 C Powder sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 3 C of flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cream of tartar
- Cookie Cutter: circle
Icing ingredients
- 4 egg whites
- 1/2 tsp cream of tarter
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 4 1/2 C powder sugar
- Green Golden Yellow and Black gel food coloring
- 3 disposable piping bags fitted with a number 2 tip
- 1 squeeze bottles
Instructions
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside
- Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, powder sugar, vanilla and egg and mix until combined and creamy
- Using a large bowl, combined the flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar
- Gradually add in the dry ingredients and mix on low speed
- Using your hands continue to mix until fully combined
- Lightly flour a cutting board and knead the cookie dough a couple of times
- Roll out the dough to about 1/2 inch thick
- Cut out 12 circles and place onto a cookie sheet
- Bake for 8 minutes or until lightly golden brown
- Repeat steps until completely out of dough
- Let cookies cool completely
Royal Icing Directions
- Using the standing mixer, combine the egg whites, cream of tartar, vanilla, and powder sugar and mix until combined and stiff peaks form.
- Split icing into 3 bowls, only needing 3T of white icing in the second and third bowl Add 1-2 drops of green into one of the 3 bowls. Add a few drops of golden yellow into the second. Add a few drops of black to the third bowl. Mix until blended.
- Scoop 1/4 C of icing into their own bags. Add 2-4 tsp of water into the remaining green icing bowl and mix until combined. Pour the icing into a squeeze bottle. Pipe a green icing line around the edging of the cookie. Fill in with the thinned green icing and allow to dry overnight.
- Using the black, pipe out the detail of the Grinch's face. Using the golden yellow piping bag for the eye, and pipe the pupils of the eyes.
