Minty Clove Sugar Cookies

This is also what happens after one month of brown. I just reviewed my November posts, and although I thought the posts featured delicious Fall/Thanksgiving worthy recipes, omg I noticed how everything (except for the WAD macarons) was so brown brown brown…

…and more brown.

It made Mama want to throw some sparkle down!

So I promise December will be filled with explosions of holiday colors. The Mad Hausfrau will create the fun, the fanciful, and the pretty. There will be doughnuts, truffles, cupcakes, printen, ginger bears in jeans, visits to German Christmas markets, and oh so much more.

Now for my first attempt to shake off the November brown blues…..

Last year, I made these blue, white, and silver pastel snowflake cookies. The dough itself is a plain sugar cookie recipe.

Pretty, huh?

Time to take it up a notch.

Or two…

BAM!  Electric Snowflakes…

Yeah, that’s better. No more suppressing the sparkly. Consequently, these Minty Clove Sugar Cookies not only look electric but pack a great taste punch as well. They need a kick of spice and a coating of minty royal icing to balance out the fabulous.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to find a 12-step program for glitter addicts…

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Minty Clove Sugar Cookies

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword christmas cookies, Clove Cookies, Clove Mint Cookies, Clove sugar Cookies, Mint Royal Icing

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Chill Time: 1 hour

Servings 2 Dozen

Author Lora Wiley-Lennartz

Ingredients

For the Clove Sugar Cookies:

• 1+2/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon powdered cloves
• 1/2 stick unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup granulated white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon clove extract
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Mint Royal Icing:

• 2 cups Powdered Sugar
• 2 tablespoons Milk
• 1 tablespoon Meringue powder
• 1 teaspoon mint extract

Instructions

Make the cookies:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F
2. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper
3. Sift together flour, baking soda, and cloves. Set aside
4. Cream butter and sugar together.
5. Blend in the beaten egg.
6. Add extracts and mix well.
7. Slowly add in the dry ingredients until just combined.
8. Divide the dough in half. Wrap each half separately in plastic cling film.
9. Chill for at least one hour.
10. Working with one half of the dough at a time, roll it out on a lightly floured surface.
11. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters.
12. Transfer to the prepared baking sheets.
13. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until slightly brown at the edges.
14. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Make the icing:

1. Whisk together sugar and milk
2. Whisk in the meringue powder and extract.
3. Divide into bowls and color each with the desired shades
4. Ice cookies by either painting the icing on with a small paintbrush or using a squeeze bottle for the outline and flood method.
5. Cover with sprinkles, nonpariels, edible glitter, dragees, spray on color, disco dust, whatever your heart desires.

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