Sunday, December 18, 2011

Day 18: Moor Christmas Sugar Cookies

We had our Moor House Christmas celebration and went out to a yummy dinner at Memphis in Costa Mesa. Then came home and watched The Grinch on VHS while we decorated sugar cookies! It was delightful...so enjoy this lovely little recipe for cookies and frosting, don't be a grinch, and get going on that Christmas spirit...

Inside a snowflake like the one on your sleeve, there happened a story you must see to believe...

Moor Christmas Sugar Cookies
makes...a lot...
  • 2 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 cup organic cane sugar
  • 10 TBS. Earth Balance vegan butter
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 egg whites
Mix together flour and baking powder. In a larger bowl, beat together sugar and butter with hand mixer. Add vanilla extract and egg whites, beat thoroughly. Slowly add flour mixture to wet ingredients and blend well. Divide dough in half, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least an hour. 

Preheat oven to 375F. Roll out dough on flat, floured surface to about 1/4 inch thick. Using cookie cutters of choice, cut out cookies and place about 1 inch apart on parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake at 375F for 7 minutes. Remove and let cool completely then frost...

Frosting
  • 1 cup Earth Balance vegan butter
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 6 TBS coconut milk
Cream together butter and sugar with hand mixer. Slowly add powdered sugar. Beat until creamy, then add coconut milk 1 TBS at a time. Beat together thoroughly and refrigerate until ready to use. I divided the batch and dyed some red and some green and left the third bowl white...this is what we got!



1 comment:

  1. I just want to note that we decorated these cookies on a 4th of July tablecloth haha!

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