Snow Mitten Sugar Cookies
How adorable are these snow mitten sugar cookies? I love that they actually look like they have snow on them!
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 272kcal
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.
Nutrition
Calories: 272kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 134mg | Potassium: 869mg | Sugar: 30g | Vitamin A: 245IU | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 1mg