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Apple Sugar Cookies

How to decorate these adorable Apple Sugar Cookies + recipe for cookies and icing!

 

Apple Sugar Cookies

Adapted from Sweet Ambs

Cookie Ingredients:

5 C flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 C soft unsalted butter
2 C granulated sugar
4 eggs

Cookie Directions: 

– Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
-Add all 4 eggs at one time…Continue to mix. -Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
-Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
-Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
-Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
-Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
-Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
-Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
-Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
– Put flour out on the wood cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into the batter.
-Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using your APPLE  cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
-Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
-Using a metal spatula move the cut cookie  to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
-Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes.  Check to see if the cookie are thoroughly baked.
-Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely.  (About 10 minutes).

Royal Icing:

Icing Ingredients:

2 egg whites
1 C powder sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
Red, brown, green gel food coloring
(For these cookies you may have to make two bowls of icing).

Apple Sugar Cookies

Icing Directions:

-Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes. (except your food coloring)
-If icing is  not stiff enough add 1/4 C powder sugar.
– Leave icing in large bowl. Take out 4 bowls, put 1/4 C of icing in three bowl and the rest of the icing in the fourth bowl.
-Bowl #1 remains white, bowl #2 , add several drops of brown gel food coloring stirring well until all of the color is blended. Bowl #3, add several drops of green gel food coloring stirring well until all of the color is blended.
-As for the largest amount of icing add several drops of red  gel food coloring in the bowl of icing … stir well to mix the color. (Red is a difficult color to get so you may have to continue to add the food coloring to get the bright deep red color.  That is why we use a gel food color as it doesn’t water down the icing.)
-Spoon each of the icings into individual  frosting bags with a #5 tips…. twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.

Apple Sugar Cookies

Whole Red Apple:

-First step for each of the completely red apple cookies outline it in red except for the stem and leaf.
-Allow the red outline  at least  30 seconds to dry before filling the  body of the cookie in with the other red icing*. ( After outlining all of the apple cookies you can push the remaining icing into a bowl and add the 1 tsp of water and mix well to get the right consistency .Using a butter knife to spread it from the outlined part inwards to the center.
-Immediately, before the red icing dries, add a small drop of  white icing  and use a toothpick to drag the white icing up the side of the apple. (Following the example.)
-Outline the stem with brown icing on all of the same apple cookies, fill them in with the thinner icing.
-Outline the green leaf with the green icing on all of the same apple cookies, fill them in with the thinner icing.
-Set these aside and allow to completely dry about 4 hours.

 

Apple Sugar Cookies

Apple with white apple flesh and brown seeds:

-Outline the apple with the red icing leaving the stem and leaf untouched. Allow 30 seconds for the red outline to dry.
-Outline the apple flesh with white icing. Thin out the icing as per the instructions above. Using a knife spread the icing around the flesh of the red apple. Immediately, before the white icing dries, add two small drops of brown icing for the apple seeds. Drag a little of the brown icing down to make the dot look like an apple seed.
-Complete the stem and leaf as per the instructions for the whole red apple.
-Allow to dry for 4 hours.

 

Apple Sugar Cookies

Red Apple with Worm: 

-Follow the instructions on the first apple including the stem, leaf, and white spots on the apple.
-Add one small white round about the size of a dime, immediately drawing a thin brown line in the circle about a third of the way around the circle. Hand outline a green worm and fill it in. Allow to dry for 30 seconds and all the two eyes and a smile or mouth.
-Allow 4 hours for cookie to completely dry.

 

Apple Sugar Cookies

Apple Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

Cookie Ingredients

  • 5 C flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 C soft unsalted butter
  • 2 C granulated sugar
  • 4 eggs

Icing Ingredients

  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 C powder sugar
  • 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
  • Red, brown, green gel food coloring
  • ., For these cookies you may have to make two bowls of icing

Instructions

Cookie Directions

  1. - Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
  2. -Add all 4 eggs at one time...Continue to mix. -Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
  3. -Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
  4. -Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
  5. -Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
  6. -Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
  7. -Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
  8. -Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  9. -Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
  10. - Put flour out on the wood cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into the batter.
  11. -Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using your APPLE cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
  12. -Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  13. -Using a metal spatula move the cut cookie to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
  14. -Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookie are thoroughly baked.
  15. -Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely. (About 10 minutes).

Icing Directions

  1. -Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes. (except your food coloring)
  2. -If icing is not stiff enough add 1/4 C powder sugar.
  3. - Leave icing in large bowl. Take out 4 bowls, put 1/4 C of icing in three bowl and the rest of the icing in the fourth bowl.
  4. -Bowl #1 remains white, bowl #2 , add several drops of brown gel food coloring stirring well until all of the color is blended. Bowl #3, add several drops of green gel food coloring stirring well until all of the color is blended.
  5. -As for the largest amount of icing add several drops of red gel food coloring in the bowl of icing ... stir well to mix the color. (Red is a difficult color to get so you may have to continue to add the food coloring to get the bright deep red color. That is why we use a gel food color as it doesn't water down the icing.)
  6. -Spoon each of the icings into individual frosting bags with a #5 tips.... twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.

Whole Red Apple

  1. -First step for each of the completely red apple cookies outline it in red except for the stem and leaf.
  2. -Allow the red outline at least 30 seconds to dry before filling the body of the cookie in with the other red icing*. ( After outlining all of the apple cookies you can push the remaining icing into a bowl and add the 1 tsp of water and mix well to get the right consistency .Using a butter knife to spread it from the outlined part inwards to the center.
  3. -Immediately, before the red icing dries, add a small drop of white icing and use a toothpick to drag the white icing up the side of the apple. (Following the example.)
  4. -Outline the stem with brown icing on all of the same apple cookies, fill them in with the thinner icing.
  5. -Outline the green leaf with the green icing on all of the same apple cookies, fill them in with the thinner icing.
  6. -Set these aside and allow to completely dry about 4 hours.

Apple with white apple flesh and brown seeds

  1. -Outline the apple with the red icing leaving the stem and leaf untouched. Allow 30 seconds for the red outline to dry.
  2. -Outline the apple flesh with white icing. Thin out the icing as per the instructions above. Using a knife spread the icing around the flesh of the red apple. Immediately, before the white icing dries, add two small drops of brown icing for the apple seeds. Drag a little of the brown icing down to make the dot look like an apple seed.
  3. -Complete the stem and leaf as per the instructions for the whole red apple.
  4. -Allow to dry for 4 hours.

Red Apple with Worm

  1. -Follow the instructions on the first apple including the stem, leaf, and white spots on the apple.
  2. -Add one small white round about the size of a dime, immediately drawing a thin brown line in the circle about a third of the way around the circle. Hand outline a green worm and fill it in. Allow to dry for 30 seconds and all the two eyes and a smile or mouth.
  3. -Allow 4 hours for cookie to completely dry.

Nutrition Information:

Serving Size:

1 grams

Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g

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How to decorate these adorable Apple Sugar Cookies + recipe for cookies and icing!

 

 Recipe and Photos by Chef Amber of Hot Springs, Arizona for FrugalMomEh.com

 

Elizabeth Matthiesen

Tuesday 5th of December 2017

I love these cookies, so adorable and not too difficult to make.

G K

Thursday 27th of October 2016

These are so well done! I need to try that icing, so I can make my cookies look more professional.

Darlene W

Monday 26th of September 2016

cute cookies, gave me a chuckle

kristen sowko

Tuesday 13th of September 2016

I love these! Thanks for sharing the recipe :)

kathy downey

Saturday 10th of September 2016

Those are super cute,awesome job!

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