Be sure to check out Olympia’s recipe for her Full Moon Sugar Cookies!
Moon Cookies
Ingredients:
- Butter
- Flour
- Baking powder
- Sugar
- Icing sugar
- Milk
- Egg
- Vanilla extract
Method:
- Preheat oven to 375° F
- In a medium sized bowl, sift 3/4 of a tablespoon baking powder and 3 cups of all-purpose flour. Set bowl aside
- In a separate bowl, pour 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of softened butter and beat with an electric mixer on low- medium speed
- Once butter mixture is well combined, add 1/4 of a teaspoon of vanilla extract
- Beat mixture to combine vanilla extract on low speed
- Scrape down sides of the bowl and add 1 tablespoon of milk
- When it is well combined, begin to add the dry mixture (flour and baking powder) to the wet mixture, 1/4 of a cup at a time on low speed
- Once you have added all of the dry mixture to the wet mixture, turn to medium high speed – make sure that it’s well combined
- Scrape down sides of the bowl and cover the bowl and refrigerate dough for at least 2 hours
- Flour your surface and place down ½ of the refrigerated dough at a time
- Roll out dough to be 1/4 of an inch thick and cut out circular shapes with a cookie cutter or can lid
- Place cookies 1 inch apart on parchment paper or silicone mat covering a cookie sheet
- Bake cookies in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes
- After baking, wait 1 minute, then transfer cookies to cooling rack to cool for 15 minutes
Icing:
- pour 1 cup of icing sugar and whisk until all lumps are gone
- Pour 3 tablespoons of milk into icing sugar and whisk until well combined
- Add a splash of vanilla extract in whisk again
- Get a toothpick, dip into black gel food colouring and add it to icing mixture, making it a light grey colour and whisk to combine the colour
- Dip cookies into icing, covering the whole cookie and set on a drying rack to drip-dry
- Once all of the cookies have been dipped, add more black food colouring to the icing to make it a darker grey- almost black
- Get a clean toothpick and dip it into the darker icing and make circular shapes on the cookies to create “craters” on the cookies to make them moons.
- Let icing set (to be hard) for 15-30 mins and then enjoy!