Description
Delicious and festive vanilla cutout cookies perfect for any occasion.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 4 tsp meringue powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3–4 tbsp water
- 1/2 tsp gel food coloring (forest green)
- 2 drops gel food coloring (electric green)
- 2 drops gel food coloring (turquoise)
- assorted sprinkles and sparkling sugar
Instructions
- Make the vanilla cookie dough and bake the cookies as instructed, using any size/shape of cookie cutters you like. (Tip: don’t roll the dough any thinner than 1/4 inch. Thinner cookies are more difficult to dip into the icing.)
- Handle the baked cookies gently; let cool completely before decorating.
- In a bowl, combine the powdered sugar and meringue powder.
- Add the extract and 3 tbsp of water. Add the food coloring.
- Whisk the icing until smooth and drizzly, adding more water as needed, a teaspoon at a time.
- Hold a cookie by its edge and dip the top of the cookie into the icing. Lightly shake off the excess, then turn the cookie upright, setting it back onto the baking sheet.
- Let the icing set for about 30 seconds before adding sprinkles or sugar.
- I recommend dipping 3-4 cookies at a time, and then decorating those cookies, before dipping more cookies. Keep the bowl of icing covered while you’re decorating the iced cookies, so the surface doesn’t crust over.
Notes
- You can use different colors of food coloring to create a variety of cookies.
- If icing becomes too thick, add a little more water to reach the desired consistency.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 120
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 3g
- Saturated Fat: 1.5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 1g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 22g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 20mg