Awareness Cookies

May is CF Awareness Month.  I got a little creative and took these iced sugar cookies (with a message) to Rachel's clinic appointment this past week.  They were a hit!

Sugar Cookie Recipe

from my friend Carol

Ingredients -

1. 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter
2. 1 1/4 cups sugar
3. 2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
4. 1/2 teaspoon salt
5. 1 egg
6. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions -

• Sift flour and salt onto waxed paper.  Beat butter, sugar and egg in large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed till fluffy; add vanilla.  Stir in flour mixture to make a stiff dough; wrap in waxed paper; chill 3 hours, or until firm. 
• Roll dough, one quarter at a time, to a 1/4 inch thickness on a lightly floured pastry board.  Cut into shapes with cookie cutters. 
• Place, 1 inch apart, on cookie sheets.  Bake in 350 degree oven for 8 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned at edges. 
• Remove to wire racks with spatula, cool. 
• Once cooled paint the cookies with the purple sugar cookie icings to create "CF Awareness" messages. 

Makes - 3 dozen

(icing recipe below)

Sugar Cookie Icing

(allrecipes.com by JBS BOX)

Ingredients -

1. 1 cup confectioners' sugar
2. 2 teaspoons milk
3. 2 teaspoons light corn syrup
4. 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
5. assorted food coloring
6. new and clean small paintbrush

Directions -  

• In a small bowl, stir together confectioners' sugar and milk until smooth (I always have to add a touch more to get it smooth). 
• Beat in corn syrup and almond extract until icing is smooth and glossy.  If icing is too thick, add more corn syrup. 
• Divide into separate bowls, and add food coloring to each desired intensity. 
• Dip cookies or paint them with a brush.
• Allow 30 minutes for icing to dry before adding/layering colors. Icing should be dry within 90 minutes depending on climate. 

Calories per cookie -

Plain sugar cookie - 94 calories

Iced sugar cookie - 116 calories