Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Make Baby Shower Cookies

You can make delicious baby shower cookies by using your favorite rolled sugar cookie recipe. To make them truly special, all you need are baby-themed cookies cutters and a few decorations.








Instructions


1. Mix up your favorite rolled sugar cookie recipe. It is recommended that you double or triple your recipe in the event that a large number of guests attend the baby shower. As usual, roll out your sugar cookies on a floured surface.


2. Instead of using more traditional cookie cutter shapes like stars and circles, use popular baby-themed cookie cutters that feature baby bottles, carriages, rattles and booties. Press the cutters into your dough. Check with family and friends to see if they have baby-themed cookie cutters that you can borrow. If not, baby-themed cookie cutters are available at most storefront or online kitchen stores.


3. Once you have formed all of your baby-themed cookie shapes, bake them per your recipe instructions. After allowing the cookies to properly cool, prepare to frost and decorate your baby-shaped cookies with pastel colors. Begin by spooning out white frosting into separate bowls and adding one drop of different-hued food coloring into each bowl of frosting. Pastel blue, pink, green and yellow are suitable icing colors for baby-themed cookies and are typically achieved by adding only one or two drops of food coloring into the individual frosting bowls.


4. Use a small spatula or knife to mix the frosting colors together. If you want to darken you frosting colors, simply add more food coloring, one drop at a time.


5. Once you have achieved your frosting colors, ice your baby-themed cookies. If desired, sprinkle pastel sprinkles on the cookies for extra embellishment.


6. Place your cookies on a large tray and cover them with foil.

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