We are going straight from our 31 Days of Halloween into our Thanksgiving Traditions. We are going to show you recipes, crafts, and more tips on how to make the best of your Thanksgiving all on your own! (We’re also going to show you what to do with all that food after Thanksgiving too!) So hang on and get your DIY gloves ready for a recipe, craft, and more each day!
Today we are showing you a couple different Thanksgiving Cookie Recipes: Mini Autumn Leaf Cookies and the Mini Pumpkin Cookies. These cookies seriously look like they came from a store right?
Sugar Cookie Ingredients:
5 C flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 C soft unsalted butter
2 C granulated sugar
4 eggs
Now to make the tasty Royal Icing!
Ingredients:
2 egg whites
1 cups powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
Orange, brown, red and gold yellow gel food coloring
After you have made your cookies: (Autumn Leaf Cookies)
- First step for each of the leaf cookies outline it in the color you prefer. Doing this in an assembly method will make it go much faster. Allow the icing outline at least 30 seconds to dry before filling the body of the cookie in with the other the rest of the icing. (After outlining all of these leaf cookies you can push some the remaining icing into a bowl and add the 1 tsp of water and mix well to get the right consistency.) Leave some of the icing in the frosting bag for additional accent work on each of the leaves. Using a butter knife to spread it from the outlined part inwards to the center.
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