Bake | Sweetheart Marble Fondant Cookies
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
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Every twelvemonth nosotros line out the saccharide cookie recipe for Valentines, reinventing the pump or a version of. This year, inspired past times conversation hearts, I came upward amongst a cursive version amongst the help of a lilliputian fun cookie cutter/stamp I constitute together with some fondant nosotros marbleized. With a few gilded sprinkles, these cookies are the perfect lilliputian gift to give out every bit lilliputian Valentine's this year. Check out the recipe below!
The saccharide cookie recipe nosotros used is from here. But to larn inwards easier than going dorsum together with forth from postal service to post, we'll include it hither also.
Butter's Shaped Cookies
(from Butter Baked Goods, published past times Random House)
makes almost 24 cookies, using a iii 1/2-inch cutter
iii cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 cups butter, room temperature
3/4 loving cup icing sugar
1/2 loving cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons pure vanilla
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line cookie sheets amongst parchment newspaper together with laid aside.
2. Onto a large slice of parchment paper, sift together the flour together with baking powder. Set aside.
3. In a stand upward mixer fitted amongst a paddle attachment, cream the butter together with sugars on medium to high speed until lite together with fluffy. Scrape downwards the sides of the bowl. Add the vanilla together with mix to combine. Scrape downwards the sides of the bowl again.
4. Turn the mixer to depression together with add together the dry out ingredients together with mix until fully combined.
5. Shape the dough into a large disk, almost 1 inch thick, and roll inwards plastic wrap. Chill inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree an hour.
6. Divide the disk inwards two, together with house one-half the dough on a lightly floured operate surface. Use a rolling pivot to whorl out the dough to almost 1/4 inch thick.
7. Use the cookie cutter of your pick to cutting out almost 12 cookies. Carefully transfer to the prepared cookie sheets together with house almost 1/2 inch apart. You may convey to combine the dough scraps together with re-roll the dough to cutting out plenty cookies. Avoid doing this every bit good many times, every bit the cookies volition locomote tough amongst over-handling.
8. Use a rolling pivot to whorl out the 2nd disk of dough to almost 1/4 inch intend together with repeat pace 7.
9. Bake inwards the preheated oven for xv minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned to a greater extent than or less the edges.
10. Remove from the oven together with allow cookies to cool for almost 10 minutes on the sheets, together with then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
For the Fondant + Decorations
1 Cookie cutter/stamp (like this one) or y'all could also usage whatsoever type of lettering stamps
1 Package of Fondant icing (like this)
1 or 2 drops of pinkish nutrient colouring
1 small-scale paintbrush
1 small-scale bowl of water
Note: Although the fondant is delicious on it's own, y'all tin ship away add together flavouring to the fondant if y'all similar (we dearest almond or lemon).
1. Break off almost one-half of the fondant icing. Place inwards a bowl together with punch downwards a bit. Add 1 or 2 drops of nutrient colouring together with flexure the fondant inwards together with over.
2. Flour (using icing sugar) a pastry board together with rolling pin.
2. Place the fondant onto the board together with commencement to whorl out the fondant, folding over a few times to create a marbled effect. Roll out to appoximately to 1/8" thick. (Be careful non to mix every bit good much, otherwise the marbling volition locomote 1 colour).
3. Using the same cookie cutter together with size every bit y'all used for the cookies, cutting out the fondant icing, together with and then postage stamp the icing amongst your pick of phrases or words.
4. Using a paintbrush, dip it inwards H2O together with pigment the dorsum of the cutting fondant pump together with and then house onto the cookie thence that it volition stick.
5. Dampen the give of the fondant amongst the paintbrush (not every bit good much) simply plenty to larn the sprinkles to stick to the top. Sprinkle amongst a few gilded sprinkles.
(Note: nosotros also stamped some of the cookies without the fondant earlier baking, to add together a flake of variety).
