Between my passion for eating sugar cookies (my favorites are the ones my office occasionally gets when Trotter’s To Go caters our events) and my last week spent away from the kitchen due to a near-deadly cold, I was fairly excited to work on this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie selection of traditional sugar cookies. AND I had a stash of colored sugars and sprinkles in my pantry that I’ve been ready to part with for a while, so I was ready for action when I pulled out the ole’ KitchenAid this weekend.
I made the cookies exactly as Dorie recommended, and it totally paid off. The cookies are the perfect creamy color, they taste clean and simple. I would buy them from a bakery if I didn’t know how to make them myself.
But here’s the thing: I used this experiment as a reason to clean all the old sugars and sprinkles out of my pantry. And while I share the Engineer Baker’s aversion to frosting and piping and rolling and cutting, I was prepared to go the extra mile this time for something cute. Well, maybe the extra half-mile.
I rolled the logs of chilled dough in sprinkles before slicing some of the cookies, and for others mashed individual slices of dough in a pool of sprinkles. For me, this IS festive. Next time I need to find some prettier things to roll the dough in.
My TWD colleagues, however, went all out! Check out their finished products. for some great ideas. (The embedded links will take you to a few of my favorites!) Click over to this German TWD blogger for the recipe, and then visit the comments section of the TWD site hfor some great ideas for improvements, too.
I love the Christmas sprinkles… those are perfect!
they look gorgeous – I love the Christmas sprinkles!
See, you’re the smart one. Slice and bake and some seasonally appropriate sprinkles – fabulous! Those are just too cute.
I think they are super cute! That extra half mile worked! Great cookies!
Those are cute! I wasn’t in the mood to go the extra mile either and went the slice and bake route as well.