Sugar Cookie Question

Baking By blmiller84 Updated 13 Aug 2007 , 7:45pm by Daytona

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blmiller84 Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 5:23pm
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hello all,

I have a question. My friend has requested sugar cookies. I have always made butter cookies and frosted them or whatever someone wants done with them, but I have never made sugar cookies. Do you frost those or just sprinkle them with sugar? I'm thinking frosting them might make them too sweet... but I have no idea! icon_redface.gif It's been so long since I've made cookies (probably about 5 months, I used to make them weekly but I've become addicted to decorating cakes) and I don't want to mess them up haha

Also I'm going to try the No Fail Sugar Cookie recipe from this site. Is that a good recipe or is another one better?

Thanks! icon_biggrin.gif

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millicente Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 5:30pm
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maybe use a snikerdoodle recipe and omit the cinniman

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mbelgard Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 5:30pm
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You can leave sugar cookies plain if you want but icing doesn't make them too sweet. Most people here ice their cookies because the whole reason to make them is to decorate. icon_lol.gif
Sugar is fine to sprinkle on too.

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snowshoe1 Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 5:33pm
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Hi - NSFC recipe works very nicely for cookie cutouts. Regarding decorating, there are almost too many ways to decorate to list (e.g. sugar, fondant, royal icing, coloring the dough, etc...). A good start for you would be to review the great tutorials on the following website:

http://www.karenscookies.net/shop/cookie-decorating-tutorials/info_7.html

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millicente Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 5:48pm
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karen also has many good recipes on her site as wll you may want to try

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blmiller84 Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 6:29pm
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Thanks for the replies! I'll look through the different options on that website and then let my friend choose which one she'd prefer icon_smile.gif

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mgdqueen Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 6:38pm
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You can also make a drop sugar cookie recipe instead of cutting them out. I make balls and roll in pretty colored sugars. They are really good and very easy and there are many recipes online.

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monkee73 Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 6:39pm
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I like to dip my sugar cookies in different colored sugars prior to baking...

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smbegg Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 6:40pm
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If you use the NFSC or the WIlton recipes, they are not very sweet at all. I would not serve those recipes without at least sanding them with sugar or using RI, which is my favorite.

There is a loft house type cookie recipe on here that is more of a cakey cookie. That is usually frosted with BC.

stephanei

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miriel Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 7:14pm
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I like Penny's recipe as it tastes good and holds the shape well during baking.

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-3993-Pennys-cookies.html

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Daytona Posted 13 Aug 2007 , 7:45pm
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Snowshoe1, thank you for sharing Karen' cookie decorating site I do cakes but seeing all the beautiful cookies on cc I want to get started doing cookies thumbs_up.gif

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