Tough cookie

Rolled sugar cookies with glaze

Not that these were tough at all, they were in fact fragrant, and tender. I think they're better the day after they're baked – they were moist and soft the day they were made, and then firmed up to become tender with bite, with a slight crust your teeth break through, and then a tasty, not-too-soft inside.

I've never met a sugar cookie I liked, so this was great, they do indeed deserve their allrecipes' name! They're something like those Danish butter cookies you grew up eating, but lighter, and with a chewier texture. Doubled the sugar and vanilla as some folk suggested on allrecipes, but found them too sweet in the end. Also really should have waited to cream the butter first before adding the sugar instead of mixing it all together, it just didn't seem like the dough came together quite like it was meant to (when will I learn?) Also this generic brand of sugar I'm using now may be having unpredictable effects on my baking (see also Fantasy Cupcakes v6.0!). Next time I think I'll try using confectioner's sugar (or grinding mine down fine) and stick to the original amount of sugar in the recipe.

The dough was extremely sticky and soft, which made it hard to roll (lucky I read Cookie Craft before starting, and utilised their handy rolling tips) and cut, and even harder to transfer nicely to the baking sheet. I recognise this might have been my fault, so will give the recipe proper another shot before changing anything else. They also spread alot more than I expected (they needed more than a half-inch between them, and my medium cutters turned out cookies the size of the large ones! Not cute), and also rose more than I thought, and the tops of many of them cracked slightly, perhaps because I left them in too long?

The glaze I tried (also from allrecipes) didn't colour as intensely as I'd hoped, the colour was somewhat translucent. It was a good initiation into cookie decorating though, since it was as easy as dip and twist. I was going to pipe designs on them, but changed my mind and just sprinkled them vigorously instead.

All in all, the glaze plus the cookies with added sugar was waaay too sweet, but I couldn't stop eating them anyhow, and polished off all the extra cookies, iced and un-iced! These are going to cupcake's school tomorrow (yes, I needed a break from cuppies, and wanted to try something new), hopefully the kids like them as much as they seem to like the cuppies!