Soft Honey Sugar Cookies

*3/4 cup Butter or Shortening
*1 1/2 cups Granulated Sugar
*3 tablespoons Honey
*1 cup Whipping Cream or Canned Milk or (1/2 cup Sour Cream and 1/2 Cup Milk)
*1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
*1 teaspoon Salt
*4 cups All-purpose Flour
*4 teaspoons Baking Powder

Pre-heat oven to 350*F.

Cream together in stand mixer: Butter, sugar, honey, cream, vanilla and salt

Whisk together in bowl: Flour and baking powder

Combine in stand mixer and mix well and (scrapping down the sides of the bowl occasionally) forms a soft dough ball.

Hint: Refrigeration of the dough will always make the cookies roll, cut and cook a little better; also using a cooled baking sheet with each batch of cookies helps too!

Roll out cookie dough using half the dough at a time, so not to over work the dough and cut cookies with a round cookie cutter or cookie cutter of your choice.

Place cookies on a Silpat covered half baking sheet or cookie sheet of your choice sprayed with cooking spray or covered with parchment paper.

Bake for 8-10 minutes or when edges barely start to turn brown. Also depends on the size of cookie.

Hint: I’ve always usually mixed my cookies by hand but my daughter is a pastry chef and mixes everything in stand mixer but either way works great!

Glac’e Icing or Royal type Icing

1 pound of Powdered Sugar (3 3/4 cup)
6 tablespoons Whipping Cream or Whole Milk plus 1 tablespoon of water (You can use other milk but you will have to add more powdered sugar)

Whisk together the milk and powdered sugar until smooth no lumps.

Now stir in the light corn syrup and extract.

6 tablespoon Light Corn Syrup (1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons)

1 teaspoon Vanilla extract, use clear Vanilla extract if you need white frosting and if you want an Almond extract use in the cookie dough too.

Use this recipe for glazing cookies and the piping of the outside of cookies. The piping the edge helps contain the frosting when you will be filling in the center of the cookie.

Use a pastry bag for each color of frosting you want to use. The small round tip for piping around edge and then I used a plastic bottle to fill in the center of the cookies which had a larger opening .

This Glac’e Icing recipe is adapted from Toba Garret you can find her at Our Best Bites

See Sweetopia for spiderweb instructions

Enjoy!

Jessica and Lindy