Happy Thanksgiving + Bling Cookies

Happy Thanksgiving, you guys! I’m thankful for each and every one of you! It’s just the truth! I’m also thankful for puppies, avocados, lobster rolls, honey pies, late-night adventure dinners, beers that taste like ice cream, root beer floats, and bling-bling gold sugar cookies.

I’m thankful for super-model dough f’sho, cookie letters, cookie-cutters with handles, rolling pins with red handles, and big huge baking trays.

I’m thankful for breakfast dates with my dad, and how cream looks when you pour it in coffee, chocolate chip cookie dough, fleur de sel, tart cocktails, homemade jam, and cold-weather walks.

So thanks for existing folks! I hope your day is full of pie, dance parties, and naps!

Bling Cookies
Recipes + method from Bon Appetit

Ingredients:

• 3/4 t kosher salt
• 1/2 t baking powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling
• 1 1/4 cups (2 1/2 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2″ pieces
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 large egg yolk
• 1 t vanilla extract
• royal icing (recipe below)
• luster dust
• lemon juice

Directions:

1. Whisk salt, baking powder, and 3 cups flour in a small bowl. Using an electric mixer on high speed, beat butter and sugar until well combined, about 3 minutes. Add egg, egg yolk, and vanilla; beat just to bombing. Reduce speed to low and gradually add dry ingredients: mix just to combine. Form dough into two disks and wrap in plastic. Chill at least 2 hours.
2. Preheat the oven to 325F. Roll out one disk at a time on a lightly floured surface until 1/4″ thick, dusting with four as needed. Cut out shapes with floured cookie cutters. Transfer to parchment lined baking sheets.
3. Bake cookies, rotating baking sheets halfway through, until edges are golden, 12-16 minutes , depending on size. Transfer to wire racks and cool. Repeat with scraps and remaining dough.
4. Cool cookies completely. Using a squeeze bottle or a piping bag, pipe a border on each cookie. Fill in by piping a zig-zag of icing and then smoothing it with an offset spatula. Set aside to set at room temperature for 2 hours.
5. In a small bowl place about 1/2-1 t luster dust. Add lemon juice by the 1/8 of a teaspoon and whisk until smooth. Using a small paint brush paint each cookie all festive-like.

Naked cookies! How embarrassing!

The Most Royal of Icings
Recipe from Bon Appetit

Ingredients:

•  3 1/4 cups powdered sugar
• 2 large egg whites

Directions:

1. Using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat powdered sugar and egg whites until white and thickened and tripled in volume. Add water by the tablespoon until icing no longer holds a peak. Transfer icing to a squeeze bottle.

Yay! Click HERE for a printable pdf of the recipes above.

Elliot has such dainty paws // joe-joe crusts for French silk pies // coconut oil granola // potato rolls forever