Recipe: Delicious Heidis Soft sugar cookie with Buttercream frosting

Heidis Soft sugar cookie with Buttercream frosting. How to Make Soft Sugar Cookies. These cookies are made very similar to any other cookie! They start by creaming together the butter at room temperature with the sugar and then mixing in the egg, vanilla, and almond extract. The flour, powdered sugar, baking powder, and salt are added together in a separate bowl and whisked together. Heidis Soft sugar cookie with Buttercream frosting.

Here is how you achieve that. Ingredients of Heidis Soft sugar cookie with Buttercream frosting. If you're on the hunt for the absolute best sugar cookie frosting out there that tastes good, is easy to use, and actually hardens after you frost your cookies, I have some good news for you!. You can cook Heidis Soft sugar cookie with Buttercream frosting using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Heidis Soft sugar cookie with Buttercream frosting

1. It's of Cookie dough.
2. You need 3/4 cup of sour cream.
3. Prepare 1/4 cup of Shortening.
4. Prepare 1/4 cup of Softened butter.
5. Prepare 1 cup of Granulated Sugar.
6. You need 1 1/2 tsp of Baking Powder.
7. Prepare 2 of each eggs.
8. You need 1 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
9. It's 3 cup of Flour.
10. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Baking Soda.
11. You need 1/2 tsp of Salt.
12. You need of frosting.
13. It's 4 cup of SIFTED powdered sugar. Do not skip the sifting as it will result in grainy frosting.
14. Prepare 2 tsp of Vanilla extract.
15. You need 2 tbsp of Heavy Whipping Cream.
16. Prepare 3/4 cup of Softened butter.
17. Prepare 1/4 cup of Vegetable shortening.
18. It's 1/2 tsp of Salt.
19. Prepare 1 of Optional: Gel food coloring and Sprinkles.

After years of decorating sugar cookies with buttercream that, yes, tasted yummy, but that required. With the mixer on medium speed, gradually add the extracts and the desired amount of water or milk. Less liquid will yield a stiffer frosting that will dry slightly and make cookies easier to stack; more will result in a softer, buttercream-like consistency, one that stays soft for several days. It's a soft sugar cookie with a buttercream icing.

Heidis Soft sugar cookie with Buttercream frosting instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350° F..
2. In a mixer bowl cream together the sour cream, butter and sugar until well blended..
3. In a separate bowl whisk together the eggs and vanilla extract, add slowly to mixer bowl beating in after each addition. The rule is if you see the egg in the bowl then you are adding too much at a time..
4. Sift together ALL dry ingredients. Add in 2-3 batches to mixer bowl..
5. Do not overmix batter as it will yield tough cookies..
6. Scoop out dough in walnut sized balls, roll in hands, place on cookie sheet and flatten the top slightly.They should be placed 1" apart..
7. Bake for 6-9 minutes depending on oven. These cookies should not become brown or golden. they should remain white. They will look undercooked. They're not. DO NOT overcook. Every minute baking counts for this recipe..
8. Remove from oven promptly. To stop them from over baking remove to a cooling rack. Allow to cool before frosting..
9. For the frosting mix everything in a mixer bowl until smooth and creamy. Add food coloring if desired.Sometimes frosting requires extra powdered sugat, if youd like a little thicker frosting add 1/2 C more of powdered sugar..
10. Once cooled frost your cookies and decorate with sprinkles. Let frosting crust before stacking/storing..
11. These taste better when left to sit over night! ENJOY! ^-^.

You don't have to chill the dough, so that's nice. It's not the sort of dough you can roll out and cut into shapes. I simply scooped it out of the bowl and right onto my parchment lined cookie sheets. The icing recipe is pretty basic except that it calls for cream. When it comes to sugar cookies, I am particular about which types of frostings I pair with cut out sugar cookies depending on the different occasions.