Christmas Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing - the best way to wish your family happy holidays, or to pack them as a special Christmas gift. With only a few basic ingredients, without chilling the dough and 5 minutes to make - Royal Icing, you’ll have plenty of time to enjoy in this Royal Icing Christmas Cookies Recipe and decorating these soft and flavorful sugar cookies.
Line 2 baking sheets with a parchment paper and set aside. Preheat oven to 350 F.
In a large bowl combine butter and sugar, and mix it until smooth. Beat in vanilla extract and egg.
In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and ground almonds. Add gradually to the wet ingredients. The dough will be stiff.
Knead the dough a little if needed, divide into workable batches and roll out (¼ inch thick) onto a floured surface. Cut the dough.
Bake cookies at 350 F for 6 minutes, and leave at cookie sheets to cool and until firm enough.
Royal Icing:
In a bowl combine powdered sugar and meringue powder. Add the water and vanilla extract gradually. Beat with a mixer at medium speed about 5 minutes, until stiff peaks (regulate with more powdered sugar or water drops, if needed). Put Icing at piping-bag and decorate cookies.
Notes
Nutrition calculated per 1 cookie with Icing (30g) and without decor sprinkles. Sugar Cookies can be stored in your cookie jar up to two weeks. The cookies can be frozen - wrapped (individual pieces) in plastic wrap and placed in a freezer bag, up to 1 month.