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white-iced snowflake sugar cookies with intricate piped patterns in a wide horizontal shot, arranged on a wooden board on a festive kitchen counter with a dusting of powdered sugar, natural light, shallow depth of field, landscape orientation

Snowflake Sugar Cookies

Intricate snowflakes made from white royal icing sit on top of sugar cookies. The sugar cookies are butter and cut out style.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings: 24 cookies
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2.5 cups flour
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 cups powdered sugar for icing
  • 3 tbsp milk for icing

Method
 

  1. Cream the butter and sugar, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
  2. Mix in the flour and salt until a dough forms, then chill 30 minutes.
  3. Roll out the dough, cut into snowflake shapes, and bake at 350F for 10 minutes until the edges are just set.
  4. Cool the cookies completely while you whisk the powdered sugar and milk into a smooth white icing.
  5. Pipe snowflake patterns onto each cookie and let the icing dry fully before stacking.

Notes

Chilling the dough keeps the snowflake shapes crisp and sharp.