Cookie cutouts and decorating parties can be fun and stress-free. This buttercream dries on the outside so that you can stack the cookies, but remains soft and delicious on the inside. To me, royal icing has no flavor and I don't care for the texture once it dries. Side note - another thing I love about Lainey's cookies is that they are frosted with buttercream icing as opposed to the royal icing that cutouts are traditionally decorated with. Everyone decorates until their hearts are content and has a great time.and a lot of frosting/cookie scraps are consumed along the way! An assortment of festive sprinkles is ready. Icing has been mixed, colored, and transferred to pastry bags or squeeze bottles so that everyone can get right to decorating. She usually makes her cookie dough at least a day ahead of time, chills it, rolls it, cuts it, and has all the cookies baked and cooled before guests arrive to decorate. So what gives? What is the secret behind my new-found cutout cookie confidence? Well, thanks to Lainey, I have discovered the key to a stress-free cookie decorating experience lies in completing the project in stages. And Easter gets to be the traditional sugar cookies - maybe with some lemon zest added to the frosting? I'm thinking so. Remember the maple spiced cutouts Ryan and I did for Halloween? Christmas cutouts, for me anyway, need to be made of gingerbread cookie dough. It's a process that requires the patience of Job, and up till 2 years ago, I wouldn't have touched the process that is made-from-scratch Christmas cookie cutouts with a 10-foot pole.įast forward to 2014, and I'm making cookie cutouts every chance I can get.and each occasion needs it's own special flavor of cookie dough. Once you've cut shapes with your cookie cutters, limbs will inevitably fall off as you tediously release them from surrounding dough and transfer them to a cookie sheet. The dough is sticky and can be tricky to roll out and cut. If you've ever made cutout cookies before from scratch, you probably know that it can be stressful at times. I've spent 2 Christmas's with Ryan's family thus far, and each year Lainey has had the best cookie making set up I've ever seen. I blame this urge entirely on my sister-in-law, Lainey, who works tirelessly every year to make the ultimate cookie decorating experience happen for Reist family Christmas gathering. I can't help myself! Christmas is NEXT WEEK and we will be spending it (and pretty much the entire week) in a hotel (thank you, Holiday Bowl and the Unviersity of Nebraska), so I just had to make decorated cutout cookies before we left. Please don't hate me for posting another baked goodie.
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