Recipe of Ultimate Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Learn how I make royal icing for decorating sugar cookies! This is the only recipe I use anymore as it works so well for me. If a homemade pumpkin pie and a soft sugar cookie had little cookies of their own, well, let these speak for themselves. I made these cookies according to the directions.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing:

1. Make ready For cookies
2. Prepare 2 1/4 cups flour sifted
3. Take 3/4 cup sugar
4. Get 3/4 cup butter room temperature
5. Make ready 1 large egg
6. Take 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
7. Get 1/4 teaspoon salt
8. Take 1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
9. Take 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice flavoring
10. Take 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
11. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
12. Get 1 + tablespoons milk(as needed)
13. Get For royal icing
14. Take 3 tablespoons meringue powder
15. Get 4 cups powdered sugar
16. Take 5 tablespoons water plus more for thinning

The pumpkin spice and maple flavors pair beautifully together to create a really tasty cookie and the decorations make the cookies pretty enough to serve at a party. Color remaining royal icing using orange food coloring. For a true pumpkin color you can add a drop or two of brown coloring. Adding pumpkin pie spice to these sugar cookies gives them the perfect pumpkin spice flavor.

Instructions to make Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing:

1. Cream sugar and butter together. Once the sugar and butter are completely combined, add the remaining wet cookie ingredients.
2. Sift all of the dry cookie ingredients together in a separate bowl. I suggest whisking the dry ingredients a few times just to be sure it is well combined.
3. Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet. Once all of the ingredients are combined it should form a large ball of dough.
4. Separate the dough into two balls. Wrap the dough balls in plastic wrap and let chill for 30 minutes to an hour.
5. Once dough has chilled, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. While the oven is preheating. Roll out your dough and cut it into your desired shapes.
6. Place your cutouts onto a parchment lined cookie sheet (you may also use a silicone mat instead of parchment paper)
7. Bake your cookies for 7 to 9 minutes or until they just barely start to brown a the base of the cookie. Be extra careful not to overtake them or they may come out dry
8. Once you have baked your cookies, you may start to prepare your royal icing. Start by combining all of your ingredients into your mixing bowl.
9. Give the icing a quick stir to combine just to save you the mess when you have to mix it
10. Use a stand mixer with the whisk attachment (or a hand mixer) to whip your icing until you get stiff peaks. This only takes a few minutes however it may take more with a hand mixer.
11. Depending on how you want to decorate your cookies, you may need to thin your icing. Be extra careful not to over thin or the icing will flow off of the cookie.
12. If you want to color your icing you may do so but be sure to use a gel paste color or an icing color so as to not alter the consistency of your icing.
13. Let icing dry for 8 to 12 hours before handling the cookie.

For a true pumpkin color you can add a drop or two of brown coloring. Adding pumpkin pie spice to these sugar cookies gives them the perfect pumpkin spice flavor. This is optional when making this homemade sugar cookie recipe Decorating pumpkin sugar cookies. I love my basic sugar cookie recipe for so many reasons. It tastes great, doesn't need to be chilled, and is easy to adapt when you're in the mood for I tried both the LorAnn's pumpkin emulsion and Spices Ect's pumpkin pie extract.

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