I started out by making sugar cookies early in the morning so that they would have plenty of time to cool before I iced them. I then took out my newly aquired food gel colors (thanks to Bake at 350 recommendation) and made my royal icing. I tinted it with pink, really red, bright white, and purple-perfect colors for Valentine's Day.
The outlining of the cookies was the easy part. Flooding and then decorating was tougher. I made cookies with names on them, cookies with dots, cookies with stripes, and cookies with designs. I loved the outcome; they looked almost professional! I sent some to my little cousins, and served the others at a small gathering we had at our house.
12 T. butter
4 T. unsweetened applesauce
1 c. powdered sugar
1 egg, beaten
2 t. vanilla
1 t. salt
2 ½ c. flour
5. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.
Lisa
Those are just beautiful. You've got a great touch with decorating. Thanks for linking these up to Sweets for a Saturday. Don't forget to come by and enter my giveaway for a $25 item of your choice from CSN. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/02/crunchy-nut-cookies-and-giveaway-you.html
Wilde in the Kitchen
You did such a nice job on the cookies! They look so pretty with the flooded icing!