This weekend I took my first crack at homemade sugar cookies with royal icing. My goal was to make these cookies look as similar to those in the Williamstown coffee shop as possible, and while I don’t know that I was completely successful in looks, the feedback at the office and from my roommate was very positive as far as taste! It took me a while to figure out which recipe to use, and I settled on the “rich roll cookies” from Joy of Cooking. For the icing, I used a modified royal icing recipe from a baker on this website. The best thing about the cookie recipe is the almond extract, I have made sugar cookies before with vanilla extract, but this was so much better.
Laid out on the cookie sheet, (as you can see, these were my more decorationally challenged cookies!)
Packed up for the office
All in all I highly recommend the recipes I used, with the exception of the dough being a little hard to roll at times (hint: chill for more or less time depending on the coolness of your fridge), and they were very fun to make. I think as I repeat the recipe and get better at rolled cookies they will be less time intensive.
Yum! And so gorgeous–what great colors for the icing. Color is so important for making food look appetizing. When I was little my mother wanted to teach us that, so she put green food dye in our meal for St Patrick’s Day: green mash potatoes, peas, salad, and pork chops with green mint jelly. We could barely eat one of our favorite meals. But your cookies! It’s a good thing i don’t live in Washington, or I’d be getting fat. Do you do mail order?!!!!!
Interesting page.., guy
WOW! Beautiful!! I am making robot sugar cookies and looking for the perfect royal icing to decorate them with…I think I found a winner! How did you modify the royal icing on the link? Which one did you use?
I am linking to this blog entry on my blog! This is fabulous!!
Thanks!!