These ornate Cherry Flower Cookies are beautiful and delicious.
Cherry Flower Cookies
Yield: approximately 50
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon cherry extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 recipe Pretty Pink Buttercream (recipe follows)
- Garnish: Wilton Sprinkles Pink
- Sugar Pearls
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Line several rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt, whisking well.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine butter and sugar. Beat at high speed with a mixer until light and fluffy, approximately 5 minutes. Add egg and extracts, beating until incorporated. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, beating until dough comes together.
- Place half of dough between 2 sheets of waxed paper. Using a rolling pin, roll dough to a ¼-inch thickness. Transfer dough with waxed paper to another rimmed baking sheet, and freeze for 15 minutes. Repeat with remaining half of dough.
- Remove dough from freezer, and remove waxed paper from dough. Using a 2¾-inch flower-shaped cutter, cut shapes from chilled dough. Place cookies 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets. Using a ¾-inch round cutter, cut and remove centers from flowers.
- Bake until edges of cookies are very light golden brown, approximately 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire cooling racks, and let cool completely.
- Place Pretty Pink Buttercream in a pastry bag fitted with open-star tip (Wilton #21), and pipe buttercream stars onto cookies, covering surface of cookies.
- Garnish with sugar pearls, if desired.
- Store in a single layer in an airtight container, and refrigerate for up to a day.
Pretty Pink Buttercream
Yield: 2 cups
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tablespoon whole milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon almond extract
- Pink food-coloring paste
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, confectioners’ sugar, milk, vanilla extract, salt, and almond extract, and beat with a mixer, starting at slow speed and gradually increasing to high speed, until fluffy. Add desired amount of food-coloring paste, beating to blend.
- Use immediately.
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