Alphabet Cookies Recipes

LETTER-STAMPED BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Divide dough into thirds. Shape each into a ball, then flatten into a disk. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes., Preheat oven to 350°. On a lightly floured surface, roll 1 portion of dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with floured 2-1/2-in. shaped cutters. , Place 1 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Press stamp into cookie. Repeat with remaining portions of dough. Bake until set, 8-10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely. Decorate as desired.

ALPHABET COOKIES

Steps:

• Into a medium bowl, sift together graham flour, whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar on low speed for 1 minute. Add honey and vanilla, and beat to combine. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture in two additions, alternating with the milk and beginning and ending with the flour.
• Divide the dough into thirds, and roll each third to a 1/8-inch thickness between two sheets of parchment paper. Stack the dough on a baking sheet, and freeze for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line baking sheets with Silpats or parchment paper. Remove 1/3 of the dough from freezer. Gently remove top sheet of parchment paper. Flip package onto a prepared baking sheet. Peel off and discard the remaining piece of parchment paper. Cut out cookies using 3-inch alphabet cutters. Transfer cookies to prepared baking sheets. Re-roll and cut any dough scraps between parchment paper. Bake until lightly browned, 20 to 25 minutes. Repeat with remaining dough. Remove cookies to wire racks to cool completely.

ALPHABET LETTER COOKIES

Steps:

• In a food processor combine the butter, sugar, honey, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, vanilla and water. Pulse 15-20 times.
• Add the all purpose flour and the almond flour and process until the dough forms a ball and pulls away from the sides of the container.
• Make two flat circles with the dough and place in a zip loc bag. Refrigerate for about an hour.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment.
• Flour your surface (I like to flour on top of a piece of parchment). Roll the dough to 1/4 inch thick. To keep the dough from sticking to the small letter cookie cutters, dip the cutters in flour each time before you press the cutters into the dough.
• Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes or until just starting to brown.
• Cool cookies on a wire rack.

QUARESIMALI (CHOCOLATE ALPHABET COOKIES)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300° F.
• In a medium-sized mixing bowl, beat egg whites and salt until foamy. Add superfine sugar slowly, beating until stiff, but not dry, peaks are formed. Sift powdered sugar and cocoa over beaten eggs and use a spatula to combine ingredients well. Don't worry about deflating the mixture. Sift flour over the mixture, again using a spatula to combine ingredients.
• Transfer mixture to a pastry bag equipped with a number 10 tip. (You may substitute a large plastic sandwich bag and snip a 1/4-inch diameter hole off of its corner.) Pipe 2-inch letters of the alphabet onto parchment paper or, preferably, a nonstick baking mat. You can put them close together, because they won't spread. Bake for 12 minutes. If you use parchment paper, then remove the cookies from the paper the moment they come out of the oven. In any case, remove them with a spatula while still warm.

ALPHABET COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine flour,baking powder and sugar.
• Cut in butter till mixture resembles breadcrumbs.(You can do this in food processor).
• Add vanilla and egg.Work to a dough and shape a ball.
• Wrap in plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to get hard enough to roll.
• Then make small balls of dough.
• Roll into thin cylinders, make letters of the alphabet, twisting the dough and trimming it as necessary.
• Arrange on a greased cookie sheet,leaving a little space between them.
• Bake at 180 C for about 10 - 12 minutes.
• Remove them from the oven as soon as the edges of cookies turn golden.
• Leave on the cookie sheet for 2-3 minutes to cool a bit,then delicately detatch them from the sheet.
• Leave to cool on a wire-rack.
• Topping:.
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• Drizzle melted chocolate / chocolate sauce OR spread lemon icing on the top of the cookies OR dip the top in melted chocolate.
• Sprinkle desicated coconut / chopped nuts.
• Leave to set.