Easiest Way to Prepare Appetizing Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing. I have modified my basic sugar cookie recipe to incorporate the wonderful fall flavors of pumpkin spice. In this video I am going to make pumpkin spice roll out cookies and decorate simple pumpkins with royal icing. It is the best sugar cookie dough that you are going to find I promise!

So fun to make, and they look amazing! The trick to making the decorative designs is to use Royal Icing. I was always kind of afraid to use this type of icing before. You can cook Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

1. Prepare of For cookies.
2. You need 2 1/4 cups of flour sifted.
3. You need 3/4 cup of sugar.
4. You need 3/4 cup of butter room temperature.
5. Prepare 1 of large egg.
6. You need 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.
7. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
8. It's 1 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla.
9. It's 1 teaspoon of pumpkin spice flavoring.
10. You need 1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon.
11. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg.
12. Prepare 1 of + tablespoons milk(as needed).
13. You need of For royal icing.
14. You need 3 tablespoons of meringue powder.
15. Prepare 4 cups of powdered sugar.
16. Prepare 5 tablespoons of water plus more for thinning.

If a homemade pumpkin pie and a soft sugar cookie had little cookies of their own, well, let these speak for themselves. I made these cookies according to the directions. The only change was I added an extra tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice and I refrigerated the dough longer than required. Stir together flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt.

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing step by step

1. Cream sugar and butter together. Once the sugar and butter are completely combined, add the remaining wet cookie ingredients..
2. Sift all of the dry cookie ingredients together in a separate bowl. I suggest whisking the dry ingredients a few times just to be sure it is well combined..
3. Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet. Once all of the ingredients are combined it should form a large ball of dough..
4. Separate the dough into two balls. Wrap the dough balls in plastic wrap and let chill for 30 minutes to an hour..
5. Once dough has chilled, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. While the oven is preheating. Roll out your dough and cut it into your desired shapes..
6. Place your cutouts onto a parchment lined cookie sheet (you may also use a silicone mat instead of parchment paper).
7. Bake your cookies for 7 to 9 minutes or until they just barely start to brown a the base of the cookie. Be extra careful not to overtake them or they may come out dry.
8. Once you have baked your cookies, you may start to prepare your royal icing. Start by combining all of your ingredients into your mixing bowl..
9. Give the icing a quick stir to combine just to save you the mess when you have to mix it.
10. Use a stand mixer with the whisk attachment (or a hand mixer) to whip your icing until you get stiff peaks. This only takes a few minutes however it may take more with a hand mixer..
11. Depending on how you want to decorate your cookies, you may need to thin your icing. Be extra careful not to over thin or the icing will flow off of the cookie..
12. If you want to color your icing you may do so but be sure to use a gel paste color or an icing color so as to not alter the consistency of your icing..
13. Let icing dry for 8 to 12 hours before handling the cookie..

Sweet, crackle-topped, sugar-coated pumpkin spice cookies (made without actual pumpkin)! These pumpkin spice cookies don't use any actual pumpkin in the recipe, it's pumpkin spice only (which, until very recently was how your PSLs were made, too). Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies are easy to roll and cut out into your favorite shapes. The dough is tasty and easy to work with. Easy Chocolate Cut Out Sugar Cookies hold their shape and have a chocolatey, buttery flavor that is perfect with either royal icing or buttercream frosting.