I've always wanted to try icing sugar cookies. I want cookies that look like the ones on the cover of Family Circle or Good Housekeeping. When the boys were young, they loved to frost cookies and douse them with sprinkles.
LOTS of sprinkles. They had a grand time but produced less than picture perfect results. Their interest in baking cookies with their mother has waned, however, so this year I set out to make The Perfect Sugar Cookie.
OK, well, at least I got that out of my system and can move on. First of all, "painting" icing on a cookie is time consuming. Especially considering that teenage boys can polish off a batch of cookies in a very short period of time. Second, icing just does not taste as good as frosting. Third, I admit ... I like sprinkles. And fourth, according to Ben, the iced sugar cookies look
"fake". With Ben's encouragement, I abandoned the icing and whipped up some buttercream frosting. Ben says these are
"real" cookies ... and I agree.
OK, well, at least I got that out of my system and can move on. First of all, "painting" icing on a cookie is time consuming. Especially considering that teenage boys can polish off a batch of cookies in a very short period of time. Second, icing just does not taste as good as frosting. Third, I admit ... I like sprinkles. And fourth, according to Ben, the iced sugar cookies look "fake". With Ben's encouragement, I abandoned the icing and whipped up some buttercream frosting. Ben says these are "real" cookies ... and I agree.
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