Thanks to a great recipe from Martha Stewart, I made a batch of old-fashioned sugar cookies on some new baking boards I purchased. Her recipe calls for lemon juice and lemon zest, but I removed those two ingredients since I’m not always the biggest lemon fan. Added some St. Patrick’s Day candies on top for fun. Not too bad!
This weekend I have the pleasure of attending various events and performances to support my friends: USA States Dance Competition, and a friend playing Bernardo in West Side Story. I started baking cookies as their “good job” gifts, and ended up making a lot more than I had expected. I suppose these will become Valentine’s treats for my friends in the upcoming week.
I knew I wanted to make cut-out sugar cookies with lemon icing, but I wasn’t sure what shapes to use. Therefore, I ended up making small letter cookies of the initial of the cookie recipient. Lemon-y royal icing colored pale pink to be festive and bagged with a tag that says “A is for Alice” (or whatever the letter/name). They look kind of lumpy, haha.
