Halloween Cookies Past Times Butter Baked Goods + Cookbook Giveaway!
All photos yesteryear Janis Nicolay of Pinecone Camp.
Rosie Daykin's cookbook, Butter Baked Goods, published yesteryear Random House, photographed yesteryear Janis Nicolay, was released this yesteryear week. We idea it was a perfect fourth dimension to portion the Butter's Shaped Cookies recipe, to aid larn you lot inwards a spooky mood for Halloween.
Start yesteryear pulling out your cookie cutters in addition to larn baking. Butter Baked Goods gets their cutters from Copper Gifts, where you tin also custom pattern your own.
Butter's Shaped Cookies
(from Butter Baked Goods, published yesteryear Random House)
makes near 24 cookies, using a iii 1/2-inch cutter
iii cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 cups butter, room temperature
3/4 loving cup icing sugar
1/2 loving cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons pure vanilla
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line cookie sheets amongst parchment newspaper in addition to laid aside.
2. Onto a large slice of parchment paper, sift together the flour in addition to baking powder. Set aside.
3. In a stand upwards mixer fitted amongst a paddle attachment, cream the butter in addition to sugars on medium to high speed until low-cal in addition to fluffy. Scrape downwardly the sides of the bowl. Add the vanilla in addition to mix to combine. Scrape downwardly the sides of the bowl again.
4. Turn the mixer to depression in addition to add together the dry out ingredients in addition to mix until fully combined.
5. Shape the dough into a large disk, near 1 inch thick, and roll inwards plastic wrap. Chill inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree an hour.
6. Divide the disk inwards two, in addition to house one-half the dough on a lightly floured travel surface. Use a rolling pivot to gyre out the dough to near 1/4 inch thick.
7. Use the cookie cutter of your alternative to cutting out near 12 cookies. Carefully transfer to the prepared cookie sheets in addition to house near 1/2 inch apart. You may convey to combine the dough scraps in addition to re-roll the dough to cutting out plenty cookies. Avoid doing this also many times, equally the cookies volition larn tough amongst over-handling.
8. Use a rolling pivot to gyre out the 2d disk of dough to near 1/4 inch recall in addition to repeat pace 7.
9. Bake inwards the preheated oven for xv minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned simply about the edges.
10. Remove from the oven in addition to allow cookies to cool for near 10 minutes on the sheets, in addition to thence transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Royal Icing - makes four cups, plenty to coat near 24 cookies
four cups icing sugar
1/4 loving cup meringue powder
half dozen to 8 tablespoons water
1. In a stand upwards mixer fitted amongst a whisk attachment, combine the icing saccharide in addition to meringue powder. Mix on medium speed until the meringue pulverization is evenly distributed throughout the icing sugar.
2. Turn the mixer to depression in addition to slow add together the water, footling yesteryear little, until the icing reaches the desired consistency.
3. Once the H2O is incorporated, trounce the mixture on high to create some mass in addition to lightness inwards the icing.
When icing cookies, you lot quest 2 dissimilar consistencies of icing. The "dam" icing should live thick plenty to concord it's shape; the "flood" icing should live loose plenty to spread across a cookie without beingness thence sparse that it runs off. Royal icing tin larn whatsoever shade you lot similar simply yesteryear adding a driblet of nutrient colouring. The combination of meringue pulverization in addition to icing saccharide gives it a pure white base of operations that agency all colours read truthful when tinting, thence demo restraint when you lot commencement adding the colouring.
Package them upwards for all the footling monsters inwards your life!
We're giving away a re-create of the mass to 1 lucky follower, anywhere inwards the world. All you lot convey to practice is travel out a comment. We'll pick a winner on a Mon (Oct. 28/13) —deadline to come inwards Sun. Oct. 28/13 at 6pm (Pacific)! Good luck!
More information near the book.
Rosie Daykin's cookbook, Butter Baked Goods, published yesteryear Random House, photographed yesteryear Janis Nicolay
Update: the winner of the mass giveaway is Casi Price - delight shoot us an e-mail for details!
