The decorating itself took me hours and hours. I would highly recommend either recipe, although I suggest keeping the shortbread for yourself or for local giving, saving the sugar cookies for shipping since they are a bit sturdier from the addition of an egg. Hooray for decorated Halloween shortbread! I made the shortbread again to decorate for Halloween. The cut-out cookie recipe from The Kitchn barely spread at all, so the edges of the shapes were very crisp.The shortbread Gail shared is rich, buttery and has that nothing-else-like-it crisp/crumbly bite of shortbread. I then used the great recipe for royal icing from Family Spice, flavoring it with a touch of almond extract and a couple of drops of orange oil.īoth cookie recipes are pretty spectacular. I made dough from each recipe, rolled them out between sheets of parchment and cut them out with my awesome new OXO cookie cutters: circles, hearts and stars. I also found another sugar cookie from The Kitchn, Best Cut-Out Sugar Cookies. She also encouraged me in my decorating when I thought I wouldn’t be able to do them justice. I asked my friend Gail, the incredibly talented and generous cookie maven formerly of One Tough Cookie, to share a great recipe for rolled cookies, which she most kindly did (printed below). Since I generally tend to shy away from cookies in general since they are pretty time-intensive, I decided to choose the most time and labor-intensive kind of cookie: rolled and decorated cookies.īecause if you’re going to make cookies for someone who has survived cancer, the least you can do is step out of your comfort zone just a bit. I had three choices for the kind of kit: spritz, drop or rolled. Since I am partnering with OXO for their Cancer Awareness Month initiative, they were kind enough to send me a kit of Cookie Items. Lily’s future is looking very bright indeed. Patients are considered cured after 10 years in remission.
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