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Children’s Hand Cookies
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 8 to 10 cookies
Ingredients
For Dough
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1/4 teaspoon table salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, for decorating
For Decorating
1 large egg white
1 teaspoon water
Sanding sugar
Cook's Notes
Older children can use their hand to outline the cookies, drawing around it on the dough with a skewer and using a knife tip to cut along the line. If your child can’t participate, make a pattern from a manila folder. Translucent parchment works well for the heart stencil; it will allow you to see the shape of the cookie through it.
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Children’s Hand Cookies
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 8 to 10 cookies
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Children’s Hand Cookies
Children’s Hand Cookies
Children’s Hand Cookies
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 8 to 10 cookies
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 8 to 10 cookies
Yield: Makes 8 to 10 cookies
Makes 8 to 10 cookies
Ingredients
Ingredients
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1/4 teaspoon table salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, for decorating
1 large egg white
1 teaspoon water
Sanding sugar
Directions
In a large bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking powder. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter and sugar on medium speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg, and beat until smooth, about 1 minute.
Add reserved flour mixture, and mix on low speed until thoroughly combined. Stir in vanilla. Wrap dough in plastic, and refrigerate for about 45 minutes.
Make cookie pattern and heart stencil while wrapped dough is chilling. For the pattern, have your child trace his or her hand on a manila file folder, and cut out the tracing. You will lay this on the dough and trace around it with the tip of a paring knife. For the heart stencil, cut a heart shape from a piece of parchment paper, discarding center.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. On a well-floured work surface, roll out cold dough to 1/8 inch thick. Cut out hand shapes. Transfer cookies to prepared baking sheets. Refrigerate until firm, about 15 minutes. Dough scraps may be re-rolled twice.
To decorate the cookies with sanding sugar hearts, lay the heart stencil over a cookie. Combine the egg white with the water in a small bowl. Brush the egg wash in the heart, and sprinkle with sanding sugar. Lift stencil and repeat with remaining cookies. Bake until edges just begin to brown lightly, 8 to 10 minutes. Let cookies cool on pans for 3 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
Cook's Notes
Older children can use their hand to outline the cookies, drawing around it on the dough with a skewer and using a knife tip to cut along the line. If your child can’t participate, make a pattern from a manila folder. Translucent parchment works well for the heart stencil; it will allow you to see the shape of the cookie through it.
Cook’s Notes
Older children can use their hand to outline the cookies, drawing around it on the dough with a skewer and using a knife tip to cut along the line. If your child can’t participate, make a pattern from a manila folder. Translucent parchment works well for the heart stencil; it will allow you to see the shape of the cookie through it.
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38 Ratings
5 star values:
6
4 star values:
13
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5
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Add Rating & Review
38 Ratings
5 star values:
6
4 star values:
13
3 star values:
13
2 star values:
5
1 star values:
1
38 Ratings
5 star values:
6
4 star values:
13
3 star values:
13
2 star values:
5
1 star values:
1
38 Ratings
5 star values:
6
4 star values:
13
3 star values:
13
2 star values:
5
1 star values:
1
- 5 star values:
- 6
- 4 star values:
- 13
- 3 star values:
- 13
- 2 star values:
- 5
- 1 star values:
- 1
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
08/05/2010
These would make excellent "The Kissing Hand" cookies for the first day of school...especially for kindergarteners! Love it!
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
08/05/2010
Sanding sugar is coarse and glittery, not fine and glittery
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
08/05/2010
To Nadio O: Sanding sugar is fine grain, usually colored sugar that has a sparkle. It is normally used for decorating cookies. You can substitute other sugars, but won't be quite a glittery.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
08/05/2010
cute, but what is sanding sugar?
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
08/05/2010
Great idea. Use with the book, "The Kissing Hand". Perfect for the beginning of the school year, especially the first day for a kindergartener.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
09/29/2008
How much fun would this be for young girls to decorate? Nail color,BLING using all kinds of silver
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
02/07/2008
easy to make, taste great...
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
08/05/2010
These would make excellent "The Kissing Hand" cookies for the first day of school...especially for kindergarteners! Love it!
Rating: Unrated
Sanding sugar is coarse and glittery, not fine and glittery
To Nadio O: Sanding sugar is fine grain, usually colored sugar that has a sparkle. It is normally used for decorating cookies. You can substitute other sugars, but won't be quite a glittery.
cute, but what is sanding sugar?
Great idea. Use with the book, "The Kissing Hand". Perfect for the beginning of the school year, especially the first day for a kindergartener.
Rating: Unrated
09/29/2008
How much fun would this be for young girls to decorate? Nail color,BLING using all kinds of silver
Rating: Unrated
02/07/2008
easy to make, taste great...
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