Valentine's Hateful Solar Daytime Carbohydrate Cookies | Nub Carbohydrate Cookies

As I've mentioned before, when nosotros were younger, carbohydrate cookies were a staple for every holiday... which agency but half dozen weeks afterwards the Holidays nosotros were gear upward to brand to a greater extent than carbohydrate cookies.

Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies are swell for a novice carbohydrate cookie decorator. Simple shapes (hearts) inwards solid colors. Wah-lah, you lot accept a festive looking Valentine's Day treat. I made a brace of Love Birds, too... but couldn't resist. You may retrieve them from the Baby Bird Baby Shower I hosted for my sister.

Unlike chocolate flake cookies, carbohydrate cookies are non cookies you lot accept around the solid but to nibble on. They are industrial plant of art... making them the perfect minor gift to your Valentines - friends, co-workers, together with neighbors. You'll detect creative packaging ideas for your cookies inwards this post : Valentine's Day Cookie Packaging Ideas

If you lot missed the recipe for my carbohydrate cookies from my Christmas Sugar Cookies post, I've included it below :

Sugar Cookie Recipe (24 minor cookies)

2 sticks of butter
1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 tsp of vanilla
1 tsp of cream of tarter
1 tsp of baking soda
1 egg

In your Kitchen Aid fitted amongst the paddle attachement, whip together butter together with powdered sugar. Add Flour, vanilla, cream of tarter, soda, together with egg. On slow, stir together ingredients but until combined. Turn the dough out onto a floured board together with wind it amongst plastic wrap. Let the dough residue inwards the fridge for twenty minutes.

Unwrap the dough together with pose it on a floured board. Be certain to flour the rolling pin, every bit well. Roll out dough until 1/4 inch thick.

Cut shapes. Place them on a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 6-8 minutes at 350 degrees but until the edges stimulate down to plow brownish - baking fourth dimension volition depend on size together with thickness of the cookie.

Royal Icing

3 egg whites
four cups of powdered sugar

In the Kitchen Aid fitted amongst a whisk attachment, crunch the egg whites until nigh frothy. Add inwards the powdered carbohydrate together with whisk on dull until smooth. You may need to add together to a greater extent than or less powdered carbohydrate or H2O to gain desired thickness. For carbohydrate cookies, you lot wishing the icing to live sparse plenty that it volition autumn dorsum on itself together with smoothen itself out, but non likewise sparse thence it volition run off of the cookie.

Good colors are thence of import to making professional person looking carbohydrate cookies. Here are my tips for a swell pinkish :

Pink Icing : I rootage amongst a minor amount of the majestic icing, I add together 1 minor driblet of ruby nutrient coloring. Add a 1/2 driblet of orangish together with greenish nutrient coloring. This volition compass you lot a deep pinkish color. Divide the residue of the white icing inwards to 2 or 3 bowls (depending on how many shades you lot want). Add minor amounts of the pinkish base of operations to each white bowl inwards varying amounts.