How to Make Autumn Cookies!
05/12/2016 17:11
At Sass & Belle, we strongly believe that cookies are always a good idea, especially as the nights start drawing in and there is a chill in the air. These fun and beautiful sugar biscuits add some seasonal charm to the home and are a tasty way to celebrate the colder months. They’re perfect with a cup of cocoa, too. Light some candles, snuggle up and indulge in these delicious treats.
What you will need:
For the Biscuits
- 1 cup (128 g) butter (at room temperature)
- 1 cup (128g) icing sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 ½ tbsp almond extract
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 ½ cups (320g) sifted flour
- Leaf cookie cutters
For the icing
- 1 cup (128g) icing sugar
- Red food colouring
- Green food colouring
- Orange food colouring
- 3 tbsp water
- Piping icing (we used white chocolate)
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla
Steps:
- Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees celsius.
- Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.
- With a whisk (it’s best if it’s electrical) cream the butter until it’s at a smooth and thick consistency.
- Add the icing sugar.
- Blend in the egg, flour, almond extract, vanilla and salt. You should get a dough-like consistency. Once you’ve got the consistency right, try not to work the dough too much as it will make the biscuit
tough . - Chill dough in the fridge for an hour. This will make it nice and easy to work with!
- Roll out a floured surface to roughly ¼ inch thick.
- Use your cookie cutter to make lots of pretty autumn leaves.
- Put on your grease proofed baking tray and bake for between 8-10 minutes. Make sure the sugar cookies don’t brown too much.
- Once out of the oven leave to cool before decorating.
Decorating cookies:
- Using your piping icing, create a border around each of the leaves.
- Mix your icing sugar, vanilla and water together with a fork and gently add in your food colouring. You want a consistency which is fairly thick but still drizzles from your spoon.
- As a lot of food colouring can be quite bright, we wanted to create a more muted look so feel free to mix colours together to get the right tone you want.
- We created three different colours and added a little teaspoon on both. Then with a cocktail stick swirl and mix the colours together until there is an ombre effect.
- This is where you can get creative so make sure you have fun with it and add more water and icing sugar as desired.
- Once you’ve iced every cookie, leave to set.
We'd love to see your autumn cookies creations so don't forget to tag @sassandbelle on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Happy baking!
