Sweet Sweets - World's Best Sugar Cookies

The World’s Best Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

½ cup powdered sugar                        
½ cup white sugar

½ cup butter                                        
½ cup oil

1/2 tsp vanilla                                           
1 egg

¼ tsp almond extract                           
2 ½ cup flour

½ tsp salt                                               
½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp cream of tartar

Directions

1. cream sugars, butter, and oil until light and fluffy
2. add egg, vanilla and almond, beat until combined
3. Sift in dry ingredients
4. Mix until dough forms ball and pulls away from sides of bowl
5. Turn out onto plate, cover and place in refrigerator for 2 hours to chill
6. Roll out dough and cut into desired shapes
7. Bake at 350 degree for 9 min
8. Let cool and frost
9. Store in an air tight container for up to a week, makes about 2 dozen cookies

Basic Buttercream Frosting 

*Cut recipe in half for sugar cookies

*Make full recipe for cupcakes

*Double for a cake (that you frost down the sides and in between layers)

½ stick softened butter

3-4 cups powdered sugar

up to ¼ cup water

1 tsp vanilla extract, clear

food coloring

1. Mix butter, vanilla and powdered sugar in mixer with whisk attachment
2. Add small amounts of water until you reach desired consistency
3. Add color and mix until dispersed

Color Flow Icing Recipe 

*For Flowing Icing that Hardens but still tastes great use this recipe. 

*It's basically the Wilton Recipe with a few improvements 

4 cup powdered sugar

2 Tbsp Wilton Meringue Powder (Pictured above)

*1 tsp clear vanilla extract

*1/2 tsp butter extract 

2 tbsp -1/4 cup water

Mix in stand mixer on low for 5 min until smooth.  Add more or less water to get the consistencies you desire (thicker for outlines, Thiner for easier low)

Divide and color and decorate! Allow to harden for several hours before touching

Store in air tight containers 

*Add more water as you decorate if icing starts to get too thick