How Do You Make Soft Sugar Cookies, And Store So They Stay Soft?
Hi Lauren, Below is a link to soft sugar cookies that stay soft. To store them I would recommend a large tin box and not a plastic container as these can sometimes impart an odour to your cookies. Just line the tin well with grease proof or parchment paper. Once you have baked your cookies,let them cool completely before icing them. To make a basic icing, take a quantity of icing/confectioners sugar and add a couple of spoons of boiling water (a little at a time) and mix in. You could add flavouring and a spot of food colour if you want to at this point(I would omit the food colouring for small children)This should be very stiff and hard to work ,once you have your mix smooth you can test it by spreading some on a cookie and if it hardens as you would like it then your done. You could make it very hard by using egg white but I would not recommend this again for small children as the white is uncooked. If your mix gets so stiff that you cant work it warm the bowl that your icing is in o
