Vanilla Sugar Valentine Cookies with Lemon Icing

Vanilla Sugar Cookies with Lemon Icing I haven't eaten these but I made them for Sam's state school class. The kiddos that could tell me said they were great.

Have a Heart...cookie shapes to suit your fancy, bunnies, frogs or just plain round...'cause they will be eaten fast! A great gluten free recipe for children, tea parties, and special occasions like Valentines or just any time at all. A cookie cutter recipe that you can make any shape you like. This cookie is easy to make and will keep well. The dough can also be kept refrigerated for two weeks.

Quick Directions:

(A) In electric mixer bowl place: 1 cup butter   (at room temperature) 3/4 cup white sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup

(B) Start beating then add: 1 tablespoon real vanilla extract or (vanilla sugar) 1/4 teaspoon salt (omit if using salted butter) 3 large eggs � teaspoon xanthan gum

(C) Beat 2 minutes then add at slow speed (see below for ingredient mixes for Trina's GF Flour Mixes)

2 1/2 cups Regular Rice Flour Mix #1 Below 1 cup Glutinous Rice Flour Mix  #2     Below

Refrigerate dough overnight or at least 3 hours (or in freezer for 1 hour) before rolling and cutting shapes. Extended Directions:

1. Into large bowl, place (A) ingredients. With mixer at low speed, beat ingredients until well blended, add (B) then (C)  occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Cover dough with plastic wrap; Refrigerate dough overnight or at least 3 hours (or in freezer for 1 hour) before rolling and cutting shapes.

2. Preheat oven to 350'F. On well floured surface, ( Regular Rice Flour 1) shape dough into a ball and with floured rolling pin, roll out one-fourth of dough '/4 inch thick, keeping remaining dough refrigerated. With floured cookie cutters, cut dough into any shape you like. Place cookies, about 1/2 inch apart, on slightly greased cookie sheet.

3.Bake cookies at 350 F - 7 to 10 minutes until golden at the edges. With metal pancake turner, or thin knife blade remove cookies to wire racks to cool. Repeat with remaining dough.

Ornamental Lemon Icing:

Beat together 1 egg white (beat slightly first) or 3 tablespoons meringue powder 4 cups icing sugar Juice from 1 lemon 1 tablespoon warm water Liquid is approximately 1/3 cup, experiment with the consistency you like.

Divide icing into small bowls; tint each bowl of frosting with food coloring as desired. Keep all bowls covered to prevent icing from drying out.

Place cookies on waxed-paper-lined cookie sheets. Decorate as desired. With small metal spatula or knife spread a layer of icing over the entire cookie surface of each cookie. Decorate by filling decorator tube with icing and forcing through the nozzle. (If icing is too stiff dilute it with a little water.) Set cookies aside to allow frosting to dry completely, about 2 hours. Store cookies in tightly covered container. Best eaten within a few days or a week, but I have mailed these and they've arrived unbroken and been quite delicious after a couple of weeks.

Makes about 3 dozen

Regular Rice Flour Mix No.1

1 3/4 cups of white rice flour 1 1/4cups of potato starch ( not the same as potato flour) 1 cups of corn starch ( or tapioca starch) 1/4 cups of potato flour Blend together this makes about 4 cups of mix

Place ingredients in a large bowl and mix together until blended. I use an electric mixer to blend, no sifting ahead of time and makes a lovely smooth airy texture.

Glutinous Rice Flour Mix No.2

1 3/4 Cups Sweet Rice Flour/Glutinous Rice Flour 1 1/4cups of potato starch ( not the same as potato flour) 1 cups of corn starch ( or tapioca starch) 1/4 cups of potato flour Blend together this makes about 4 cups of mix

(Sweet Rice Flour/Glutinous Rice Flour, is so named after the kind of rice it is made from there is no Gluten in it so it is safe for Celiacs)

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