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frosted sugar cookie bars with a frosting painting of flowers
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Sugar Cookie

This is the best recipe for sugar cookies.
Course Cookies, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Cookie, Cookie recipe, Sugar Cookie
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
refrigerate 1 hour 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 18 minutes
Servings 16 frosted sugar cookie bars
Calories 226kcal
Author Janine Waite

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 egg large
  • cups all-purpose flour
  • tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ tsp salt

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°

Cookie Dough

  • Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. This takes about one minute on low speed.
  • Add the egg and vanilla and mix well.
  • Mix flour and salt in a separate bowl.
  • With your mixer on the lowest speed, slowly add flour mixture to the butter. Mix for 30 seconds until the dough is thoroughly incorporated.
  • Place cookie dough on a parchment lined 8" x 12" cookie tray. Evenly distribute dough and pat it down.
  • Bake in a 350° oven for 30 minutes.

Frost Cake

  • Frost the whole cookie and the leftover frosting. You'll divide it up into small bowls.
  • Take five small bowls and divide the frosting up among them.
  • Color each bowl of frosting with these colors: peach, light pink, dark pink/red, yellow, lime green.
  • Create circles of peach frosting on your frosted cookie.
  • Add some pink frosting in a swirling design on your peach-colored flower.
  • In the middle, add a tiny bit of red frosting.
  • Now add the lime green stems and petals.
  • Lightly swirl pink, orange, and green frosting in the background.
  • Add little ball candies in the middle of the flowers.

Nutrition

Serving: 1bar | Calories: 226kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 41mg | Sodium: 79mg | Potassium: 29mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 369IU | Calcium: 8mg | Iron: 1mg