Servings:
Makes about 2 dozen, 2 1/2 inch cookies Servings
Ingredients
For Royal Icing
- 3/4 cup softened unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 cup large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoon egg whites
- 1 pound confectioner’s sugar (1 box)
Preparation
Baking Directions:
Cream together butter and sugar.
Add egg, vanilla and orange peel.
Beat together.
Add flour and salt.
Roll out to a quarter-inch thickness.
Cut into shapes on ungreased cooking sheet.
Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.
Tips:
From Kathleen Daelemans:My nieces chose this recipe out of the “Today” show cookbook for our annual Auntie Christmas sleepover.
We whipped up a batch and set the dough in the refrigerator to harden while we watched Elf for the gazillionth time.
After the show we turned into elves painting the cookies with royal icing and packaging them up for the world’s greatest Grandmas and Grandpas.
