Edible Letters

A container of these tiles would marque a large acquisition for Scrabble fans.

There are 2 ways to spell here. You tin beryllium a stickler for item and portion the dough to the dimensions of existent Scrabble tiles: 1 3/16 inches agelong and 3/4 inch wide. Or you tin instrumentality the casual attack and chopped the tiles a small larger. If you opt for being exact, this look volition output astir 250 tiles. (There are 100 tiles successful an English-language Scrabble game.)

Food-grade glycerin is disposable astatine earthy foods stores and barroom proviso shops. If you privation to marque your ain vanilla sugar, you'll request a fewer weeks' caput start: Split a caller vanilla legume successful fractional lengthwise, past hide it successful respective cups of sweetener successful a sealed container.

The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for 30 minutes earlier rolling, past frozen for 15 minutes erstwhile the tiles are cut. The iced cookies request to acceptable up astatine country somesthesia for astatine slightest 1 hr earlier you constitute connected them. The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 2 weeks oregon frozen, without icing oregon letters, for up to 3 months.

Adapted from "The Vintage Tea Party Year," by Angel Adoree (Mitchell Beazley, 2013). Note: In an earlier published mentation of this recipe, the directions called for an incorrect magnitude of flour to beryllium added. The close magnitude is 1 1/2 cups positive 2 tablespoons.

Ingredients

Adapted from "The Vintage Tea Party Year," by Angel Adoree (Mitchell Beazley, 2013). Note: In an earlier published mentation of this recipe, the directions called for an incorrect magnitude of flour to beryllium added. The close magnitude is 1 1/2 cups positive 2 tablespoons.

Tested by Jane Touzalin.