Ingredients: 3 Cups of All Purpose All Wheat FlourPut the bowl in the fridge and let rest for at least 6 six hours and for best results 24 hours. --- - --- Wait --- - --- Cutting board, dust with all purpose flour and roll out the first dough ball. Your roll out should be right at 1/4" thickness. Use cookie cutter and place cookie shapes on a cookie sheet. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F. Bake the cookies on the middle rack for 10 minutes exactly. Cookies will be soft to the touch when taken from the oven. Let the pan sit on the stove for 3 minutes. Remove cookies from cookie sheet with spatula and place on cooling racks. Wait 20 minutes before frosting. --- - --- Royal Icing for the Cookies: 2 Large Eggs (Whites Only) 3 Cups of Confectioners Sugar (powdered sugar) 2 Teaspoons of Lemon Juice (fresh squeezed) 1 Teaspoon of Vanilla Extract Combine all ingredients in a bowl with an electric mixer. Use low setting at first so that powdered sugar doesn't fly out of the bowl. Test thickness of sugar mixture. If too stiff to squeeze through pastry bag/fine tip, add 1/4 teaspoon purified or filtered water, mixing again with electric mixer. This icing should not be runny! make sure that it is relatively stiff! The sugar will setup quickly, so add the sugar to your bag, and start piping on to the cookies. Be creative and have fun. Once sugar has set, cookies can be stacked, and combined with other cookies to give out as holiday treats. Enjoy! |