Every year I somehow seem to get swindled into bringing the sweet treats to at least one holiday party. But it does give me an opportunity to use my beloved standing mixer and to practice my patience and tolerance as the boys always want to “help” in every step of the baking process.
So this year we once again made my favorite, super simple, but beautiful Snow Globe Sugar Cookies. They take just a little extra time to hand “paint” and decorate each one, but it will be so worth! And you need no previous artistic ability to make these cookies come to life. So with no further adieu, here’s what you do:
The Ingredient List:
- 4 cups of all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1.5 sticks of soft butter
- 1.5 cups of sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
- Blue and white royal icing (I make mine with 2 cups powder sugar, 3 tbl milk, and 1 egg white)
- extra powder sugar for decorating
- blue food coloring
- Santa, Reindeer, or other holiday icing decorations. (You can find these at Walmart, Target, Joann’s, Micheals but they do sell out quick). I got these, these, and these this year.
The Recipe:
- in one bowl mix your dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt
- in another bowl beat the butter and sugar until fluffy.
- add the eggs and the vanilla extract and beat well.
- stir in the dry ingredients, a third at at time until all is added and the dough is smooth and stiff
- roll out on waxed paper, lightly dusted with powder sugar, about 1/4 inch thick
- cut into round cookies (I use a standard sized drinking glass)
- bake 350 degrees for 10 minutes
- cool completely before decorating
- mix two bowls or royal icing. one stays white from the sugar, the other add 2 drops of blue food coloring)
- paint half the cookie blue for “the sky” and the other half white “snow”
- immediately sprinkle on some powder sugar for the “snow”
- add your Santa and Reindeer icing decoration, lightly pressing into the royal icing, and you are done!
Check out some of my favorite baking gear too: these measuring cups // cookie sheets // silicone baking mats // cookie scooper // the prettiest limited edition kitchenaid mixer ( have the misty blue color and it is perfection!) // cooling racks // measuring jug //