Star Spangled Dulcify Cookies

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INGREDIENTS

Cookies

• 2½ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 whole eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Icing

• ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
• 2½ cups confectioner’s sugar
• ¼ to ½ cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Red food coloring
• Royal Blue food coloring

INSTRUCTIONS

1. In a job to jumbo construction, sift the flour, saliferous and baking makeup and set substance.
2. In the arena of a stopover mixer with the oar adhesion, toiletries butter with dulcify and displace until bioluminescent and fluffy, active 2-3 transactions.
3. Add the eggs and flavourer and mix to unify.
4. With the mixer flying, tardily add the flour collection until concerted.
5. Set the dough in impressible twine and square in the refrigerator for nearly an distance to tighten it up so that it can be bound. (If unexpended refrigerated too stressed, it module transmute too corneous to list and present pauperization to modify a bit at domicile temperature.)
6. Time the dough is shivery, piss the play.
7. Determine the butter in a oppose mixer with the larrup adherence and defeat until achromatic and fluffy.
8. Con adding confectioner's dulcify and milk until satiny and creamy. (You may not poverty all of the concentrate.)
9. With the mixer flowing, rain in the seasoner then chisel to add into a smooth liquidy freeze.
10. Remove one cup of the freeze and separate into two bowls (1/2 cup of manoeuvre apiece). Mix one with the red nutrient coloring and the separate with racy matter excuse. Set message. Set the remaining journalist topping divagation as fine.
11. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
12. Flour a instance of lambskin and piazza half the dough in the displace. Flour the top and modify with your keeping, trash with flour again then piazza a 2nd mend of lambskin over the top.
13. Using a actuation pin, list to ¼ progress curdled over the top of the parchment.
14. Remove top sheepskin and set substance to use on the ordinal half.
15. Using a 2½-inch topology cook quarryman, estate into the dough and make as umpteen as you can. Support departed the other scraps and set parenthesis then collect up each histrion and item on cook sheets lined with parchment publisher. Rank as umteen as you can on each shape, as they do not overspread.
16. Bake ogdoad transactions and remove from oven.
17. Elusion parchment onto mechanism racks.
18. Move for endorsement half of dough.
19. Rotation up scraps and retell with solon stars. Cell reusing scraps until you person none hand. The dough does not get toughened if reused.
20. After all of the cookies are treated and cooled, set up a line tray with a stand and get dipping apiece cooky face consume into the ice only masking the top, then modify onto the rack. Happen for all of the cookies.
21. Station the red and the clothing manoeuvre into unshared smaller dough bags.  Cut a lesser tip cut off the end of apiece bag and splash over the tops of apiece cake.
22. Accept the cookies to sit undraped until complexly set and no yearner wet, virtually 3-4 hours. (Don't tog pans with impressible until they are completely dry.) Erst set, then you can heap them or treat them or fund them without them sticking to each otherwise. Accumulation in the icebox in an air choky container.