Sift flour and cornstarch together into a separate bowl, then mix it thoroughly into the butter & sugar mixture. Combine butter and sugar in bowl of a stand-mixer fitted with a paddle and mix until creamy. Put the baked cookies and colorful frostings all on a table and let the decorating begin. We use a tried and true family buttercream recipe for the frosting, tinted multiple colors with simple food coloring. Over the years, we have tested a number of shortbread recipes, and none have been as consistently reliable, perfectly textured and delicious as this variation on a Martha Stewart recipe. At just $29, the set also includes our four most popular Vermont-made cookie cutters - bunny, gnome, llama and unicorn! You can make this project especially fun with the Mom & Me Baking Gift Set which includes the JK Adams “My Favorite” Rolling pin for bakers of all ages and a Red Mini Roller made especially for the smaller hands of the child baker. But there’s really no limit to the year-round occasions and themes you can celebrate with this fantastic cookie. For Easter, we opt for Easter Bunnies and creatively decorated Easter Eggs. The cookies themselves are delicious, and the shapes and decorating are limited only by your imagination. These sophisticated yet deliciously simple cookies make a fun, creative project for all ages. Since our children were toddlers, an annual Easter tradition in our home has been Decorated Easter Shortbread Cookies. For so many families, baking is certainly one of our most cherished culinary traditions, with recipes and time-honored techniques passed down through generations. I’m thinking maybe we’ll make the next one a Spring/Easter theme.Whether it’s the wafting smell of baking bread, or the indulgent taste of chocolate chip cookie dough the memories of a special birthday cake, or the fragrance of a homemade apple pie.no form of cooking evokes quite the same emotion, satisfaction and sensory experience as baking at home. 
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A new Sweet of the Month is up! I’ve changed it to monthly in order to give you more time to vote and more time to prepare if you’re interested in entering. If you’d like to make these Alice cookies as a gift, but don’t have the time to make too many, wouldn’t these be a nice added touch? Just had to share with you!. Wouldn’t these adorable Alice in Wonderland printables from The TomKat Studio be perfect for a Wonderland party?! I’m thinking that when I make Alice cookies again (with more of the characters and images), I’ll need to attach these sweet tags from TomKat’s shop to the cookie bags. Click here for the royal icing recipe I used. I used a Kopykake projector to help me pipe Alice’s shape. There’s got to be a cutter out there you could use though (drop me a line please if you see one), or even just pipe her on a rectangular cookie. Easy enough to do if you’re only doing a few cookies, but a heads-up in case you don’t already know, time-consuming if you’re doing a lot of them. The Alice cookie shape was made by hand cutting the dough with a paring knife. BEST SHORTBREAD COOKIE RECIPE FOR DECORATING SERIES
I can’t wait to make a whole series of other Alice characters, but for now I’m excited to be starting a series of just princess cookies copied from this piece of art. Ī few sweet morsels of information I’d love to share with you: Kind of fitting with the whole tea time thing, are these Alice in Wonderland cookies. The original shortbread isn’t made with cornstarch and has quite an interesting history, b.t.w., and as it’s often served with tea, I thought it would be fun to make a few Alice in Wonderland decorated cookies with it.
The taste difference between it and my sugar cookie recipe is subtle, but this one definitely tastes like a traditional shortbread, and *gasp* has one whole cup of cornstarch in it! I couldn’t believe it when I first made it, and was a little doubtful about how successful the recipe would be, but it turns out that the cornstarch in this version of shortbread is what helps give the cookie a ‘melt-in-your-mouth’ sensation. Thanks to my dear friend Kim whom I adore, for sharing her family’s recipe with me… She’s not on-line, but she’s crazy about baking too, and we’ve experienced many sweet adventures together. I have yummy news! I’m ready to share another recipe with you… A recipe I like to use as cookie decorating base… Melt-in-your-mouth, delicious, buttery shortbread.
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