Sugar Cookie Tree

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Ask 3 cooky designers for their favourite sweetener cooky recipe, and you'll get 3 antithetic answers. This 1 is decorator Gail Dosik's favorite, which is tasty yet sturdy capable for stacking. Food coloring added to the dough lends a caller magnitude to decorated cookies.

Because liquid nutrient coloring tin impact the cookies' flavor, Dosik likes to usage Americolor marque nutrient coloring gel, which is disposable astatine baking supply/crafts stores and via Amazon.com. It's champion to usage food-safe gloves erstwhile kneading the nutrient coloring gel into the dough.

You'll request a acceptable of 7 plain round, fluted oregon crinkled-edge cooky cutters successful 7 graduated sizes (they often travel successful sets of 12) and a 2-ounce compression vessel oregon a 12-inch-long disposable pastry container fitted with a coupler and plain circular pastry extremity #2, for "gluing" the stacked cookies together. The instrumentality is disposable astatine baking supply/crafts stores.

Pasteurized eggs are disposable astatine immoderate Harris Teeter stores; look for Davidson's brand.

The dough tin beryllium frozen for up to 1 month; bash not refrigerate. Undecorated, baked cookies tin beryllium frozen for up to 4 weeks successful airtight containers, with treble layers of parchment betwixt the layers of cookies. Defrost astatine country somesthesia successful the wrapping truthful the condensation forms connected the parchment alternatively than connected the cookie. The icing tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for respective days; disturbance earlier using.

From cooky decorator and Washington autochthonal Gail Dosik, a.k.a. One Tough Cookie, who blogs astatine onetoughcookienyc.com.

Ingredients

From cooky decorator and Washington autochthonal Gail Dosik, a.k.a. One Tough Cookie, who blogs astatine onetoughcookienyc.com.

Tested by Lucy Shackelford.