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Sugar Cookies With Royal Icing Recipe

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I am not a baker.  Well, not a very good one, anyway.

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I like baking.  I like folding egg whites and measuring sugar and the smell the house has when there are cookies in the oven.  Sadly, though, I am usually disappointed with the sum of my efforts, since over and over again I withdraw from the oven a rotating lineup of deflated soufflés and busted-looking cakes.

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Yet, even knowing my limitations, when my childhood best friend turned 30 a couple of weeks ago, I got the grand idea to bake her sailboat-shaped sugar cookies then decided to up the ante by decorating them with royal icing, something I hadn’t done since culinary school.  Royal icing is no joke, in case you were wondering.  It’s fussy, and takes skillz that I do not claim to possess.

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It took me about fifteen tries to get a cookie that looked halfway decent. Royal icing is not my forte.

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I had this weird little freak-out over her turning the big 3-0.  I don’t know why – I barely batted an eyelash with the Big Man turned 30, just gave him a surprise party and a nasty hangover and teased him for getting old.  But something about one of my oldest friends turning 30 just, I don’t know, blew my mind.  We’ve now been friends longer than we’ve not been friends, if that makes sense.  It’s crazy.

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But if I’ve learned anything from the millions of late-night conversations with her over the past over-15 (gasp!) years, it’s that sometimes life hands you a day where all you need to do it stop, laugh, and sit down on a porch somewhere and enjoy a really good micro-brew.  And that it’s a pretty good thing when you have a friend who rolls with your punches and loves you no matter what, so that even when you send her the most ugly-ass cookies that you have ever made but spent all fricking day on, cookies that the post office was late delivering so they showed up a little stale and kind of broken, she’ll understand where the hell you were going with that and even tell you they were delicious.

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Because while I’m not a great baker, sometimes it’s the flavor that’s important and not the looks.

(At least, that’s what I tell myself when I oversleep and race to work looking like a hot mess with crazygirl hair and yesterday’s shirt thrown back on.)

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And I can have as many little freak-outs as I like, but at the end of the day, when my life has an oven and good friends and free wifi— baking ugly-ass cookies is a pretty good thing.

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Sugar Cookies With Royal Icing Recipe

How to make Sugar Cookies With Royal Icing Recipe? Sugar Cookies with royal icing, don’t think about it. try it very tasty.
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Prep Time10 mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: international
Keyword: icing recipe, sugar cookies, Sugar Cookies With Royal Icing Recipe
Calories: 400kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 large egg whites (and more to thin icing if needed)
  • 4 cups powdered sugar, sifted (more for thickening icing)
  • juice of 1 lemon

Instructions

  • Beat the egg whites to medium-soft peaks. Whisk in the sugar and lemon until blended. Thin icing or thicken with egg whites and sugar as needed.
    Can be refrigerated, covered, for up to three days.
Sugar Cookies With Royal Icing Recipe

About Daisy

I'm 41 years old. I love cooking. I like to make my guests and my family happy by making delicious food.

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