Do you want to make a cut out sugar cookie that is not the traditional looks like it burned around the edges, crunchy, tooth shattering usual sugar cookie? Of course you do! This cookie dough can be cut using any and all of your cookie cutter shapes. What is the beauty of it is that they are dusted with powder sugar and all your bells and trees and hearts and starfish shapes are brilliantly presentable on doilies in trays or in individual servings.
What I do to keep them fresh is to let them sit for several hours after dusting with powder sugar. I then use cup cake cups as individual doilies. I put one powdered cookie into a paper cup cake cup and store them in trays. That way they don't bump each other and they stay fresh and neat looking.
Ingredients
- 1 pound butter cooked ¼ cup sugar
- 2 egg yolks About 5 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon whiskey or cognac Powdered sugar
Method
In saucepan melt butter. Simmer until dregs form on bottom, dark brown and clarified butter swims on top. Don't worry about the froth. Take off heat and pour slowly top part of butter into bowl. Leave the dregs. Throw them out. Let butter cool or sit for awhile. Beat until fluffy and add sugar. Beat in egg yolks and whiskey. Add flour one cup at a time, folding in until cookie dough is formed. In Symi they are shaped into palm size cookies cut with cookie cutter into star fish. I shape them by hand into logs
using walnut size dough bits. Bake for 15 minutes or until light brown . In powder sugar dusted platter, with a spatula, carefully, since they break, place cookies. If you want the powder sugar to stick on your cookies the trick is you have to dust them right out of the oven. Cover with powder sugar. Cool. Cover again with powder sugar. I hate it when they put cloves in these.
