The Olympics start this weekend and oh man am I excited. The Olympics mean I take to twitter and lose almost all my follows because I spend 2 weeks live tweeting and getting ridiculously patriotic. Sport of choice for this olympic cycle? Curling. Now I should be rooting for USA because amurica but for curling I’m all for Noway. How can I not when they look like this:
Look at that. Look at their outfits and how fabulous they look. Of course I’ll also be watching the heck out of some skiing and ice dancing (Because every ice dancer from the US and Canada train like 30 minutes from my house in Michigan. And also because Ice dancing is amazing). I genuinely cannot wait.
In honor of this hopefully amazing winter olympics I decided to attempt to decorate things and made some curling cookies! The decoration is only mediocre because I totally looked up how to use this kind of icing AFTER I kinda failed, but they’re still awesome. And the cookie is tasty!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter - softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.
Notes
For the curling cookies I made 25 large cookies and 50 baby sized. Then decorated them with this icing dyed red, blue and yellow.