Children's Hand Cookies
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Martha Stewart Kids, Holiday
- Yield Makes 8 to 10 cookies
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Ingredients
For Dough
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, for decorating
For Decorating
- 1 large egg white
- 1 teaspoon water
- Sanding sugar
Directions
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking powder. Set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter and sugar on medium speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg, and beat until smooth, about 1 minute.
- Add reserved flour mixture, and mix on low speed until thoroughly combined. Stir in vanilla. Wrap dough in plastic, and refrigerate for about 45 minutes.
- Make cookie pattern and heart stencil while wrapped dough is chilling. For the pattern, have your child trace his or her hand on a manila file folder, and cut out the tracing. You will lay this on the dough and trace around it with the tip of a paring knife. For the heart stencil, cut a heart shape from a piece of parchment paper, discarding center.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. On a well-floured work surface, roll out cold dough to 1/8 inch thick. Cut out hand shapes. Transfer cookies to prepared baking sheets. Refrigerate until firm, about 15 minutes. Dough scraps may be re-rolled twice.
- To decorate the cookies with sanding sugar hearts, lay the heart stencil over a cookie. Combine the egg white with the water in a small bowl. Brush the egg wash in the heart, and sprinkle with sanding sugar. Lift stencil and repeat with remaining cookies. Bake until edges just begin to brown lightly, 8 to 10 minutes. Let cookies cool on pans for 3 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
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These would make excellent "The Kissing Hand" cookies for the first day of school...especially for kindergarteners! Love it!
Sanding sugar is coarse and glittery, not fine and glittery
To Nadio O: Sanding sugar is fine grain, usually colored sugar that has a sparkle. It is normally used for decorating cookies. You can substitute other sugars, but won't be quite a glittery.
cute, but what is sanding sugar?
Great idea. Use with the book, "The Kissing Hand". Perfect for the beginning of the school year, especially the first day for a kindergartener.
How much fun would this be for young girls to decorate? Nail color,BLING using all kinds of silver
easy to make, taste great...