Strawberry Cut Out Cookies with Chocolate Icing
Pink strawberry cut-out cookies decorated with piped chocolate icing.
Ingredients
| 1 cup | 240 ml | salted butter |
| 1 1/2 cups | 360 ml | powdered sugar |
| 1 | egg | |
| 1 teaspoon | 5 ml | vanilla extract |
| 2 teaspoons | 10 ml | strawberry extract |
| 2 drops | soft pink Americolor food coloring | |
| 3 cups | 720 ml | all purpose flour |
| 2 teaspoons | 10 ml | baking powder |
| 1 teaspoon | 5 ml | salt |
| 3/4 cup | 180 ml | powdered sugar (for chocolate icing) |
| 1/4 cup | 60 ml | cocoa powder (for chocolate icing) |
| 1 tablespoon | 15 ml | water (for chocolate icing) |
| 1 tablespoon | 15 ml | corn syrup (for chocolate icing) |
| 2 drops | brown coloring (for chocolate icing) |
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Cream together butter and powdered sugar.
- Mix in egg and vanilla and strawberry extract along with 2 drops soft pink coloring.
- Blend in flour, baking powder and salt.
- Mix until the dough forms a ball.
- Roll out on floured surface and cut with cookie cutter.
- Bake at 400° for 7-9 minutes, until bottom of cookies are golden but tops are not browned yet.
- Cool completely before icing.
- For the chocolate icing: Mix powdered sugar, cocoa powder with water, corn syrup and coloring until smooth and creamy. Add more water or powdered sugar to adjust the consistency you prefer to pipe with. (I piped the icing with a #3 tip.)