Make Flower Sugar Cookies

You can easily make these flower sugar cookies for your tea party. At any rate you cannot make yours worse than mine.

I was having a garden tea party for my daughter's 10th birthday and I thought making sugar cookies in the shape of flowers would be a grand idea. And I must say...it was. Everyone loved them.

Now you need to know that when it comes to cake and cookie decorating, I am not the greatest but I was determined. The cookies were good, the decorations turned out okay, my daughter was very pleased. I was not as impressed as she was. I expected some Monet on cookies I guess and well...my cookies were no piece of art but they were pretty and they were good! Yum!

If you make a batch and decorate them, please send a picture! You can do so by using this easy form.

Flower cookies ~ Comments and reviews.

Make Some Flower Cookies

To make flower cookies, you will need these items:

One batch of sugar cookie dough

Icing - recipe below

Coloring paste

Tube of icing

Decorative sugars

Flower cookie cutters

Make your cookie dough. Cut the dough with your flower cookie cutter and bake them as per the directions.

When I made my cookies, I made mini flowers so I shortened the baking time to 9 minutes. I also omitted the nutmeg and used rum extract instead.

Wait until the cookies are cooled.

Make the icing.

1 cup of powdered sugar

1 to 2 tablespoons of light corn syrup

1 to 2 tablespoons of milk

1/2 teaspoon of almond - or vanilla - extract

Color paste of your choice

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl with a whisk. Frost each cookie.

I made two batches of icing: one pink and one lavender. My first batch was too runny. The icing came out the best for me with 2 tablespoons of light corn syrup and milk.

It will take about 12 hours for the icing to set. Sprinkle the decorative sugar while the frosting is still wet BUT do wait until it has set a bit or the sugar will melt.

Keep your cookies in a cool place until the icing is set.