I have been craving the wonderfully delicious sugar cookies with icing that you can buy at any grocery store. You know the ones, the thick and soft cookie with the terribly sweet and thick icing on top with sprinkles. They are usually always seasonal, and around this time you can find the icing is dyed orange and the sprinkles are Halloween themed. You know one is enough to cover your fat and calorie intake for a whole meal, but you have to have two or three (or is that just me?). Yes, those lovely things are wonderful, and I decided I wanted to duplicate them as best as I can.
I found that the Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie mix is the best fast mix out there for cooking sugar cookies. The recipe I use on the back of the bag is for the drop cookies and its supposed to make about 3 dozen 2 inch cookies. However, Trey and I do something different.
Trey likes to mix the ingredients. He loves to pour the mix, crack the egg (with a little help from mommy so no shells get in) and pour in the milk. He doesn't like the electric mixer though. In fact, he sits on the counter to reach the bowl to pour the ingredients in, but jumps off as soon as I turn the beater on to mix and won't come into the kitchen until it is off and unplugged. So, when that is all done and Trey is back on his stool (or sitting on the counter), we drop the cookies on the pan. Trey tells me where to put them, and its usually a little too close together. The first thing we do different is that we don't make small cookies. We have semi large ones, usually about a dozen and a half with the mix instead of the 3 it says it will make. These produce cookies that are about the same size as the yummy ones at the bakery, although we don't care if it is perfectly round. They are also soft enough and thick enough to taste about the same as the bakery ones, as well.
When we place them in the oven, I always turn the timer on and remind Trey to tell me when he hears the "beep beep" to let me know. So, 13 minutes later I hear little feet running through the house and "Mommy! Mommy! Its ready! The cookies are ready!" And we get them out. He has to step back because "I don't want to get burneded." And all this is usual, except for tonight, we made icing for the first time for these cookies. Remember how I said I wanted some of those yummy bakery sugar cookies with icing?
A search on the Internet and I found a recipe that swears its better than the icing on those delicious cookies. So I decide to try it. Trey pours in the confectioner sugar ("Whats that smell?" he says as he pours it in and the powder raises up in a cloud and helps put the butter in the bowl. Then he helps me stir the milk and egg white ("Will it be yellow?" I assume he is thinking of scrambled eggs here). While I try to stir this butter and powdered sugar "until mixed" as the recipe calls, Trey runs off, leaving me to the task of mixing the rest. I don't mind because in my mind I can taste how yummy these things are going to be. So I slowly start to mix the milk mixture and whatever this powdered sugar mixture is, and its too thick. So I add more milk mixture, and a little more, and then its too runny to be hard. So I add more sugar. And a little frustrated (and out of that sugar) I start icing and soon have finished all of them. The icing is thick enough and looks like the bakery ones! Trey runs in and wants a cookie just about the same time that I decide to try one myself. I give him one and think, "Oh he will love these like I do!" and he spits it out. "Eww!" he says. What? So I try it, and while the texture is so close, the recipe called for vanilla and almond extract, and that's about all you can taste. I don't find it bad like Trey, but I definitely don't find it as yummy as those beautiful bakery cookies.
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