Dreidel Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 2.75 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1.5 cups granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3-4 tbsp milk
- Blue and white gel food coloring
Instructions
- Whisk flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar 3 minutes until fluffy.
- Add egg and vanilla, mix until combined.
- Add the flour mixture in two additions, mixing just until a soft dough forms.
- Divide dough in half, flatten into discs, chill 1 hour until firm.
- Roll dough to 0.25 inch thick on a floured counter, cut with a dreidel-shaped cutter.
- Place cookies 1 inch apart on parchment-lined baking sheets.
- Bake at 350°F for 9 to 10 minutes, until edges are just set and not browned.
- Cool on the sheet 5 minutes, then move to a rack to cool fully.
- Whisk powdered sugar with milk until the icing drips off the whisk in a slow ribbon, then tint half of it blue.
- Pipe or spread icing onto the cooled cookies, let set 20 minutes before stacking.
Good to Know
No special cutter: a plain circle cutter with a toothpick-drawn dreidel outline piped in icing works just as well.