Valentine's Day Roll Cookies with Decorative Icing
Ingredients
Roll Cookies
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Butter, room temperature
- 2 Eggs
- 2-1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 2 tsp Double-Acting Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Decorative Icing
- 4 Egg Whites
- 1/2 tsp Cream of Tartar
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract or Lemon Extract I use lemon extract.
- 5 cups Powdered Sugar, sifted
Instructions
Roll Cookies
- Using standing mixer, cream together sugar and butter.
- Mix in eggs, one at a time.
- Add flour, baking soda and vanilla (or lemon extract) and continuing mixing until dough forms.
- Roll dough into ball and cover with plastic wrap.
- Refrigerate at least 3 hours. Or overnight.
- When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350.
- Prepare cookie sheets by greasing or lining with Silpats or parchment sheets.
- Divide chilled dough into 2-4 smaller pieces and roll out one at a time using enough flour so dough won't stick (but not too much).
- Roll to desired thickness. Maybe 1/8" ... these cookies with rise up and become thicker with baking.
- Cut dough with cookie cutter and place onto prepared cookie sheets.
- Repeat process, incorporating
- Bake each sheet of cookies for 11 minutes. Don't let the bottoms brown.
- Remove from oven and cool for 5 minutes, then move cookies to cooling racks.
Decorative Icing
- Beat egg whites until frothy.
- Gradually add sifted sugar and continue beating until frosting is consistency you desire.
- Divide icing into smaller bowls and add food colorings.
- Frost away ... then let cookies sit until completely dried. They are generally best eaten the next day, after frosting continues setting overnight. Cover lightly to keep fresh. To freeze, place in single layer on cookie sheet into freezer for a couple of hours, then move to small containers. To defrost, remove from freezer and place on single layer.