Recipe: Perfect Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing. The pumpkin spice and maple flavors pair beautifully together to create a really tasty cookie and the decorations make the cookies pretty enough to serve at Fall is the perfect time to bake up a batch of Pumpkin Spiced Cut-Out Cookies with Maple Royal Icing. Serve them plain or decorate them using. Adding pumpkin pie spice to these sugar cookies gives them the perfect pumpkin spice flavor.

Ingredients of Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing

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

These Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies from Sally's Cookie Addiction are the best cookies for fall! 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.

Pumpkin spiced sugar cookies and royal icing instructions

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..

Place half of the thinned icing in a resealable plastic bag and tint the rest with red and/or green gel food coloring. Decorate with royal icing, if desired. Royal Icing Cookies with SprinklesWho Needs A Cape. cookie, gel food coloring, sprinkles, sugar cookie, glaze. Easy Royal IcingAound My Family Table. Royal Icing PumpkinsCreated by Diane. french vanilla cake mix, pumpkin pie spice, water.