We Stand United: An Lgbt Guide

How To Make Pride Sugar Cookies!

Cookies are great! Pride cookies are even better! Whether you're making them for a pride party, or just as a tasty treat, they're great for any occasion!

Making the cookies:

Makes: About 3 dozen
Prep: 15 minutes
Total: 2 hour 24 minutes
Inactive: 2 hours
Cook: 9 minutes

Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 egg, beaten

1 tablespoon milk

Powdered sugar, for rolling out dough

Directions:

Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. Place butter and sugar in large bowl of electric stand mixer and beat until light in color. Add egg and milk and beat to combine. Put mixer on low speed, gradually add flour, and beat until mixture pulls away from the side of the bowl. Divide the dough in half, wrap in waxed paper, and refrigerate for 2 hours.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Sprinkle surface where you will roll out dough with powdered sugar. Remove 1 wrapped pack of dough from refrigerator at a time, sprinkle rolling pin with powdered sugar, and roll out dough to 1/4-inch thick. Move the dough around and check underneath frequently to make sure it is not sticking. If dough has warmed during rolling, place cold cookie sheet on top for 10 minutes to chill. Cut into desired shape, (preferably, a heart/rainbow/etc,) place at least 1-inch apart on greased baking sheet, parchment, or silicone baking mat, and bake for 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are just beginning to turn brown around the edges, rotating cookie sheet halfway through baking time. Let sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes after removal from oven and then move to complete cooling on wire rack.

Making the icing:

What you need:

1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract

4.5 cups sifted powdered sugar

1⁄3 cup butter or margarine

1⁄4 cup milk

Making the icing:

1. Mix everything. You can do this in a large bowl, using an electric mixer.

Put the butter or margarine in the bowl and beat it with the mixer until it is smooth and fluffy.

Then add the vanilla and the milk to the butter, while you continue to mix.

Gradually add the powdered sugar, while continuing to use the mixer. Add it bit by bit, over the course of about 15-20 seconds. That way it doesn’t clump as you try to stir it.

2. Add food coloring to the icing. When using different colors, pour icing into different bowls and add food coloring that way. Gradually add food coloring until you get the desired shade.

3. Put the icing into piping bags. If you don't have them, then get a plastic bag, cut a hole in the corner, careful not to make it to big of a cut, or else the icing might come out too fast. Spoon the icing into your item of use. Use one bag for each color.

Applying the icing:

1. Carefully border the cookie with the icing. If you're making a rainbow cookie, then do red, orange, yellow.. Etc.

2. Fill in the rest of the cookie until it's completely covered.

3. If you want to add designs to your cookies, such as a shine to a rainbow, then carefully add white to the cookie.

Enjoy! These sugar cookies should have turned out great! Make sure you have assistance with the oven if you're young. Please be careful as to not burn yourself. Enjoy!