How adorable are these snow mitten sugar cookies? I love that they actually look like they have snow on them!
We usually stick with stockings and trees for our Christmas sugar cookies and I’m excited to give these mittens a try.
Snow Mitten Sugar Cookies
makes 24 cookies
Cookie Ingredients:
- 1 C of butter
- 1 1/2 C Powder sugar
- 1tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 3 C of flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cream of tarter
- Cookie cutter: mitten
Icing Ingredients:
- 4 egg whites
- 1/2 C cream of tarter
- 1/2 C vanilla
- 4 1/2 C powder sugar
- teal, red and green gel color
- 1 container of white sanding sugar
- 4 disposable piping bags fitted with number 2 tip
- 3 squeeze bottles
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside
- Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, powder sugar, vanilla and egg and mix until combined and creamy
- Using a large bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and cream of tarter
- Gradually add in the dry ingredients and mix on low speed
- Using your hands continue to mix until fully combined
- Lightly flour a cutting board and knead the cookie dough a couple of times
- Roll out the dough to about 1/2 inch thick
- Cut out a few mittens and place onto the cookie sheet
- Bake for 8 minutes or until lightly golden brown
- Repeat steps until completely out of dough
- Let cookies cool completely
To ice the cookies:
- Using the standing mixer, combine the egg whites, cream of tarter, vanilla and powder sugar and mix until combined and stiff peaks form
- Split the icing into 4 bowls
- Add in a few drops of teal into one bowl and mix until combined
- Add in a few drops of red into the second bowl and mix until combined
- Add in a few drops of green into the third bowl and mix until combined
- Leave the fourth bowl white
- Scoop a small amount of frosting into the piping bags
- With what is remaining in the icing bags, add in a few tablespoons (about 2) of water into the bowls and mix until combined
- Pour the thinned icing into the squeeze bottles and set aside
- Using the teal piping bag, pipe an outline around the top half, leaving the bottom bare for the white on the mitten
- Fill in with the thinned teal icing
- Repeat steps with remaining red and green colors onto the other cookies.
- Let cookies dry overnight
- Using the white icing piping bag, pipe a outline around the bottom part of the mitten and fill in with the thinned icing
- Pour the sprinkles onto a plate
- Dip the white part of the mitten into the sprinkles and set aside
- Repeat steps on remaining cookies
- Let cookies dry for an hour
- Using the white icing, pipe a snowflake onto the middle of the mitten
- Dip into the sprinkles
- Repeat steps with remaining cookies
- Choose one of the three colors to pipe a strip across the lower part of the mitten
- Let cookies dry for another hour before enjoying you Snow Mitten Sugar Cookies!
Snow Mitten Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 C butter
- 1 1/2 C Powder sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 3 C flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cream of tarter
Icing:
- 4 egg whites
- 1/2 C cream of tarter
- 1/2 C vanilla
- 4 1/2 C powder sugar
- teal red and green gel color
- 1 container of white sanding sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside
- Using a standing mixer, cream together the butter, powder sugar, vanilla and egg and mix until combined and creamy
- Using a large bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and cream of tarter
- Gradually add in the dry ingredients and mix on low speed
- Using your hands continue to mix until fully combined
- Lightly flour a cutting board and knead the cookie dough a couple of times
- Roll out the dough to about 1/2 inch thick
- Cut out a few mittens and place onto the cookie sheet
- Bake for 8 minutes or until lightly golden brown
- Repeat steps until completely out of dough
- Let cookies cool completely
- Using the standing mixer, combine the egg whites, cream of tarter, vanilla and powder sugar and mix until combined and stiff peaks form
- Split the icing into 4 bowls
- Add in a few drops of teal into one bowl and mix until combined
- Add in a few drops of red into the second bowl and mix until combined
- Add in a few drops of green into the third bowl and mix until combined
- Leave the fourth bowl white
- Scoop a small amount of frosting into the piping bags
- With what is remaining in the icing bags, add in a few tablespoons (about 2) of water into the bowls and mix until combined
- Pour the thinned icing into the squeeze bottles and set aside
- Using the teal piping bag, pipe an outline around the top half, leaving the bottom bare for the white on the mitten
- Fill in with the thinned teal icing
- Repeat steps with remaining red and green colors onto the other cookies.
- Let cookies dry overnight
- Using the white icing piping bag, pipe a outline around the bottom part of the mitten and fill in with the thinned icing
- Pour the sprinkles onto a plate
- Dip the white part of the mitten into the sprinkles and set aside
- Repeat steps on remaining cookies
- Let cookies dry for an hour
- Using the white icing, pipe a snowflake onto the middle of the mitten
- Dip into the sprinkles
- Repeat steps with remaining cookies
- Choose one of the three colors to pipe a strip across the lower part of the mitten
- Let cookies dry for another hour before enjoying.
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