How to make soft sugar cookies, and store so they stay soft?
Lauren B asked:
I am planning on making sugar cookies and decorating them for my daughters daycare. I have NEVER made them, but i have always wanted to. Do you know a good recipe for SOFT sugar cookies? And a recipe for the icing? The final question is how to store them once i have made them, so they stay soft? thanks for your help! Any other tips on decorating etc would be appreciated. thanks again!
I am planning on making sugar cookies and decorating them for my daughters daycare. I have NEVER made them, but i have always wanted to. Do you know a good recipe for SOFT sugar cookies? And a recipe for the icing? The final question is how to store them once i have made them, so they stay soft? thanks for your help! Any other tips on decorating etc would be appreciated. thanks again!
A great way to soften cookies up again if they get hard is to stick them in an air tight container with a piece of bread or two. The bread gets hard and the cookies get moist again. LPCampbell
Hi Lauren, Below is a link to soft sugar cookies that stay soft. To store them I would recommend a large tin box and not a plastic container as these can sometimes impart an odour to your cookies. Just line the tin well with grease proof or parchment paper.
Once you have baked your cookies,let them cool completely before icing them. To make a basic icing, take a quantity of icing/confectioners sugar and add a couple of spoons of boiling water (a little at a time) and mix in. You could add flavouring and a spot of food colour if you want to at this point(I would omit the food colouring for small children)This should be very stiff and hard to work ,once you have your mix smooth you can test it by spreading some on a cookie and if it hardens as you would like it then your done. You could make it very hard by using egg white but I would not recommend this again for small children as the white is uncooked. If your mix gets so stiff that you cant work it warm the bowl that your icing is in over some hot water. If this does not work then mix in a little more boiling water a little at a time like before. If you want to add sweets like m&ms or sugar strands do this while the icing is still warm. .Leave the lot to set before you store in the tin. Don’t wrap them in plastic or they may ’sweat’ cover and wrap with greasproof or parchment paper. I hope this helps. All the best and have one for me! Rab Rab
Sugar cookies are hard and if you like to have them soft all you need to do is to keep them in a container with some moist cookies the humidity of this one will make the others soft. Eagle Eye