Anyone have a brilliant Tried & True Rolled Sugar Cookie Cutter/Cut-out Recipe?

[LaDolceVita]

I am looking for a yummy Rolled Sugar Cookie Cutter/Cut-out Recipe..

I am making Mickey Mouse Shaped Cookies for my son's 1st Birthday Party Favours this weekend, there will be 3 served in each 'cello-bag' tied with party themed ribbon, of the 3 cookies, one will be plain (so I need a recipe with great flavour) one will be chocolate dipped and the last will be choc & sprinkles dipped... I have found myself a gorgeous little Mickey Mouse Head & Ears Shaped Cookie Cutter, but not a fabulous recipe yet!

I have googled and googled and have read mixed reviews, I tried one that was actually called "The World's Best Rolled Sugar Cookie Recipe" with over 3000 five star reviews and it was so bland and boring I found one of Nigella's recipes as well but about 30% of the reviews said it was quite bland also...

I have a brilliant Choc Chip Cookie Recipe that is just as delicious without the choc chips but of course it has self raising flour and puffs quite a bit so no doubt the cookies wouldn't retain their shape, but I am wondering if I could use this recipe and substitute the S.R Flour for Plain Flour with a pinch - teaspoon of Baking Powder? Would that turn out ok? This recipe does have Brown Sugar in the recipe, which I think is what gives it such a great flavour and the colour once baked is devine, but I haven't seen any rolled cookie recipes with Brown Sugar in them, is there a reason for this?

I just don't want to waste too much more ingredients & time to discover more bland recipes...

Any help would be greatly appreciated from this 'L' Plater Baker!

Alicia xx

[LaDolceVita]

Ok, so not even a brilliant one? Just a not so bland one even??

Anyone?

[STARRYSKY]

I make cookies, and sell them, I have been told they taste pretty good!

1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
1 egg
2 and 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp van essence or extract (I use a concentrated vanilla extract, I think this makes a real difference)

cream butter and sugar add egg and vanilla, mix in flour, chill in fridge for around an hour. roll out and cut, cook until edges are slightly browned around 10-15 mins.

you can add almond essence or lemon essence if you want a bit extra flavour.

I would just try it with the brown sugar and see how it goes, I dont add any baking powder or use sr flour in mine either as then the cookies spread too much and dont keep their shape. if the weather is a bit humid or warm, once you have cut the cookies out, place the tray with cookies on in the fridge for 1/2 an hour also.

[toomanyshoes]

I use the martha stewart one, it's on her website.

You could add some lemon or orange rest for a bit of a "lift"

[LaDolceVita]

Thanks so much girls!

I will def try your recipe tomorrow Starry, along with my substituted one! I found another one this afternoon on an American Cookie website that has brown sugar in it so might try that one too! DH will be a happy little cookie himself tomorrow night haha!

Thanks to you as well Toomany! I am not too fond of zesty flavours but DH is so I will def put some into one of the batches tomorrow

Thanks so much ladies! Fingers crossed!!

[Mum2Romone]

I have a thread that I posted after I made Awesome sugar cookies only two weeks .... I'll copy it for you...

Recipe for my Awesome cookies !!!!!,

1 cup butter, left out to soften
5 cups of flour, plain
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 tbsp vanilla imitation ' flavoring'
1 tsp salt
2 eggs

In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).

preheat oven to 180 degrees , and roll out dough to approximate 1- 1.5cm thick, cut with cookie cutters
lay on baking paper 2cm apart
Bake for 6-8 minutes until golden

Let cool

make icing with icing sugar and two egg whites...... Add preferred colouring, or cocoa, and dip top of biscuit into bowl, lay biscuits to dry, or place in fridge to set,

store in an air tight container....... YUMMY

They were soo good I'm going to make more tomorrow I think...and they looked sooo good too....

enjoy !!!!

[Just Me]

Make sure you come back and tell us how you go Alicia. I would loooove a great recipe too but I am too lazy to experiment myself (I'm also diabetic so very limited in my tasting abilities but I want to be able to make them for my kids).

I was going to say the best and most moist cookies I have made were using half brown sugar & half white sugar but that recipe was for choc chip cookies too.

[STARRYSKY]

ooh, another thing I have done is melt up a block of white chocolate and mix it into the creamed ingredients before adding the flour, yummo.

[LaDolceVita]

Ok I currently have 2 batches chilling my fridge!

Number 1 is Mum2Romone's recipe - Is it supposed to be qute crumbly before chilling hun? I made a half batch... Oh and assumed you meant baking powder not bicarb?? Hope so anyway as I went with the baking powder haha!

Number 2 is a Brown Sugar Cookie recipe I found...

The recipe is as follows:

2 cups sifted flour, less if possible
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1 tablespoon cream
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
granulated sugar, for decorating

(1). Blend 1 cup flour, baking powder, and salt.

(2). Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla, and cream.

(3). Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture, then add enough of the remaining 1 cup flour to make the dough stiff enough to roll.

(4). Wrap in plastic wrap and chill several hours.

(5). Preheat oven to 375 F. Place on a lightly floured cutting board and roll to 1/8" thickness. Use floured cookie cutters to cut into shapes. Place on an ungreased baking sheet, sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake 8 minutes.


Soooo, hopefully they work out as I have to make the BIG batch and decorate them all tomorrow! Will pull them out of the fridge tonight, bake a few and let you know how I go!!

Thanks so much girls! If I had more time, I'd try sooo many more recipes! x

[Junglemum]

Yum, I've been looking fir a recipe to use in my new biscuit press! Thanks.


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[Just Me]

ooh, another thing I have done is melt up a block of white chocolate and mix it into the creamed ingredients before adding the flour, yummo.

Yum!!! Not nice to torture a diabetic person with such yummy sounding things I should stop reading this thread. I am drooling!!!

[STARRYSKY]

How did they go AMH? I am playing around with my ginger bread recipe at the moment, adding things etc, seems ok...! LOL

[~Lashes~]

how did they work out?
ive got one i pinched from the kids playgroup, but they dont roll so well, did you get these ones to roll? as thats one of the "jobs" the kids like doing, but cant with the current recipie!

[Mum2Romone]

I made a second lots today and had to add about 1/4 cup milk because it was too dry, maybe 3 eggs or extra butter will do , but my mix is chilling now so ill let you know how its goes tomorrow

[Shanti]

oh yum! Great thread. I want to bake some cookies for DD's 2nd birthday party in a couple of months. Need to buy some cute cutters first!!

[Arimeh]

Which one did you end up making - which one was the best Alicia? I've got some cookie cutters here that I've promised the kids we'll make some biscuits today so we can use them - but not sure which recipe to try.

[LaDolceVita]

Hey girls!

OMG these ones were THE BEST!!!

2 cups sifted flour, less if possible
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1 tablespoon cream
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
granulated sugar, for decorating

(1). Blend 1 cup flour, baking powder, and salt.

(2). Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla, and cream.

(3). Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture, then add enough of the remaining 1 cup flour to make the dough stiff enough to roll.

(4). Wrap in plastic wrap and chill several hours.

(5). Preheat oven to 375 F. Place on a lightly floured cutting board and roll to 1/8" thickness. Use floured cookie cutters to cut into shapes. Place on an ungreased baking sheet, sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake 8 minutes.

We added about 1 & 3/4's cup of flour instead of the 2 cups, left them in the fridge overnight, then in the morning they were a little hard to roll out so we let them sit for about 3-5 mins and then it was super easy, we baked them at about 200 for about 6-7 minutes as our little Mickey's were small, we baked them just until they had risen a little bit and were a touch golden... PERFECTO!

OMG soooooo YUM! We made 400 of them, then choc dipped them, some whole, some half and some half then dipped in 100's & 1000's (Mel, the Mickey Mouse Cookies on my fb you saw!) and they were soooo freakin' yummy!

Tried alot of recipes and this was by far the best, not bland at all, the brown sugar is definitely the winner! Try these cookies out, I totally recommend them!!!

Thanks so much for all your help ladies! Hoep you enjoy! We did!! xx

[Arimeh]

Awesome - so is that plain flour or SR flour you used? And *cough cough* what is granulated sugar? *blush*