Friday, April 22, 2011

Earth Day Cookies- Sugar Cookies decorated with Fondant

Its been a while since i baked some cookies
yesterday baked some eggless one
and today the regular sugar cookies
which i decorated with rolled out fondant
Advay enjoyed watching me doing it
even i felt good working with fondant

Recipe name Earth day Cookies/Sugar Cookies decorated with Fondant
Recipe source Joy of Baking
Preparation time one hour
Baking time 5 to 7 mins
Baking temperature 100 degree
DIY for  Cookie template is blogged here
For the Cookie Dough
Dry ingredient
All purpose flour two cup
salt one fourth tsp
baking powder half tsp
Wet ingredient
half cup sugar
half cup butter
vanilla essence one fourth tsp
egg one
Procedure
In a mixing bowl whisk the dry ingredients together
In another bowl beat sugar and butter till fluffy
gradually add egg and vanilla essence
add the dry ingredient and mix further till smooth dough is formed
wrap the dough in cling wrap and keep inrefrigerator for an hour

preparation before baking
preheat the oven for for 10 mins at 100 degree centigrade
line baking sheet with parchment paper
keep the rolling pin,cookie cutter ready
Procedure
Roll out the dough on lightly floured surface
or in between parchment paper
lightly flour the template on one side and place on rolled out dough
with help of sharp knife shape out the cookie
keep in fridge for 15 to 20 mins.
bake for five to seven minutes
cool on wire rack.

To decorated things needed
blue and green colour fondant
corn syrup one tsp
sugar cookies
How i did
spread a thin layer of corn syrup on the cookies
place the fondant and press gently
keep aside.
Thats all guys,take care and enjoy the long weekend,..:-)