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Mittens and Hats Sugar Cookies
printable recipe
5 cups Flour
3 teaspoon Baking Powder
2 cups Butter
2 cups Sugar
2 Eggs
2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 teaspoon Salt
Frosting:
6 ounces warm Water
5 tablespoons Meringue Powder
1 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
2.25 pounds Confectioner's Sugar
Place the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and set aside. Add the butter to the mixing bowl. Mix for 30 seconds, then add sugar. Cream together until light and fluffy.
Mix in the eggs, and vanilla.
Mix in the eggs, and vanilla.
Add the dry ingredients to the mixing bowl, a little at a time until it is all added and mixed together.
Refrigerate your dough until you are ready to cut out and bake the cookies. Roll out the dough and cut out with a hat and mitten cookie cutter. Bake cookies at 350 degrees for 7-8 minutes. Let cool, then make frosting.
Place warm water and meringue powder in a large mixer bowl. Mix together with a whisk for 30 seconds. Add cream of tartar and whisk again for 30 seconds. Add confectioners sugar all at once and mix on low for 10 minutes. Once the frosting is mixed, make sure to keep it covered. Separate what you will need into small containers so you can mix the frosting with your desired color. Mix some red and some green. Make sure to leave some white also. Decorate hats in red or green or whatever color you desire. As soon as you frost the hat or mittens, take a piping bag with white frosting and makes dots on top of the wet icing. Let dry.Add the pom pom and the ruffle to each hat and the ruffle to each mitten. Use an M1 Wilton tip.
Thank you so much for dropping by today. I hope these cookies make you smile and give you some Christmas spirit!
Thank you also to Lindsay from Love and Olive Oil and Julie from The Little Kitchen for doing all the behind the scenes work every year so that this Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap comes together like magic!
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I loved these cookies, Teri! They were absolutely lovely. I appreciate all the hard work you put in to decorate them and send them my way. Happy holidays!
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