Festive Cookie Decorations

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 15mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    6
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    881
based on 5 ratings

These festive sugar cookies are perfect decorations to hang on your festive tree or as a beautiful gift for your friends and family. They are super easy to make and fun to decorate with patterns and colours of your choice.

recipe updated Dec 10, 2024

Ingredients

  • Butter icon
    Butter
    225 g
  • Icing sugar icon
    Icing sugar
    300 g
  • Caster sugar icon
    Caster sugar
    200 g
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    1
  • Vanilla extract icon
    Vanilla extract
    2 teaspoons
  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    450 g
  • Baking powder icon
    Baking powder
    3 g
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    3 g
  • Egg white icon
    Egg white
    50 g
  • Food coloring icon
    Food coloring
    as needed
  • Sprinkles icon
    Sprinkles
    as needed

Tools

  • kCook icon Spatula
  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Parchment paper
  • kCook icon Plastic wrap
  • kCook icon Rolling pin
  • kCook icon Kenwood Chef
  • kCook icon Kenwood bowl - kenwood chef
  • kCook icon Baking tray - large
  • kCook icon Lightly floured surface
  • kCook icon Small bowl
  • kCook icon Piping bag

Step preview

  1. Attach Creaming beater
  2. Add butter and caster sugar to the Kenwood Bowl
  3. Mix with splashguard fitted until smooth - 3 min, Speed 2
  4. Then add egg and vanilla extract to the Kenwood Bowl
  5. Mix with splashguard fitted until light and fluffy - 2 min, Speed 2
  6. Then add all purpose flour, baking powder and salt to the Kenwood Bowl
  7. Mix with splashguard fitted until dough forms - 2 min, Speed Min
  8. Wrap with plastic wrap
  9. Chill in fridge - 30 min
  10. Pre-heat oven - 180°C
  11. Line a clean baking tray with parchment paper
  12. Transfer dough to lightly floured surface
  13. Cut into halves
  14. Take one half of the dough
  15. Roll out until 1/8" (5mm) thick
  16. Cut into rounds
  17. Cut a small hole on the top of each cookie using the wide end of a small piping nozzle
  18. Repeat the same with the other dough half
  19. Transfer cookies to baking tray
  20. Bake until golden brown - 10 min, 180°C
  21. Remove from oven and let cool
  22. Clean Kenwood Bowl
  23. Attach Creaming beater
  24. Add egg white and icing sugar to the Kenwood Bowl
  25. Mix - 2 min, Speed Min
  26. Mix until smooth - 8 min, Speed 1
  27. Transfer icing to small bowl
  28. Add food coloring to the small bowl
  29. Mix until combined
  30. Transfer icing to piping bag
  31. Pipe icing onto cookies
  32. Decorate with sprinkles
  33. Tie a piece of ribbon onto each cookie
  34. Serve
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