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I have yummy news! I’m so excited to share another recipe with you… A recipe I like to use as a cookie decorating base… Sweet and buttery, soft with delicious chocolate surprises in every bite.
HERSHEY’S EGGIESSugar Cookies.
Not only were these fun to make, and fairly easy with some simple decorating tips, I loved the added chocolatey flavour and crunch. I used both the real milk chocolate and Cookies n’ CreamEGGIES to decorate the cookies, and you could use either or even both for the sugar cookie recipe itself.
I’ve partnered withEGGIES for this project, and am happy to share that you have a chance to be recognized with an EGGIES Star from HERSHEY’S prize pack by making your own creation with EGGIES. So make these sweet little guys or come up with your own design, share on social media with #eggiescreations and for your chance toreceive the EGGIES Starprize pack.
Enjoy baking and nibbling on these!
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HERSHEY'S EGGIES Sugar Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup HERSHEY'S EGGIES, roughly chopped
Instructions
Cream the butter and sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer on low to medium speed. (Use the paddle attachment). Mix until thoroughly incorporated - for about one minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a plastic spatula and mix again for a few seconds more. Over mixing the butter and sugar in this step will cause too much air to be incorporated into the dough. If you'd like a light and fluffy cookie, that's ideal, however the dough will spread more during baking; not ideal if you'd like the cookie to hold its shape.
Add eggs slowly and mix. Scrape down the bowl with your spatula at least once and mix again. Add vanilla extract. Stir briefly.
Sift your dry ingredients together. (Flour, baking powder and salt). Add all of the flour mixture to the bowl. Place a large tea towel between the edge of the bowl and the electric mixer so that the flour won't escape. Mix on low speed for 30 seconds. Remove the tea towels and observe the dough mixing; when it starts to come together add the Hershey’s Eggies and mix until the dough clumps around the paddle attachment.
Roll the dough out between 2 large pieces of parchment paper. Place on a baking sheet and into the fridge for a minimum of 1 hour.
Roll out the dough further if you need to, and cut out cookie shapes. Place on parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Re-roll scraps and repeat.
Put cookie dough shapes back into the fridge for 10 minutes to 1 hour to chill again. They will then hold their shape better when baked.
Preheat your oven to 350°F or 176°C.
Bake cookies for 8-12 minutes or until the edges become golden brown. The baking time will depend on the size of your cookie.
Let cookies cool to room temperature and decorate if you like! If you’re new to decorating cookies,here is a cookie decorating tutorialwith everything you’ll need to know to begin!
Notes
Yield:Yield: Makes about 30-35 cookies, but it will also depend on the size of the cookie cutter and how thick you make your cookies.
A few notes about the recipe: Butter - The butter needs to be soft, or room temperature. I leave mine out the night before I do my baking. If you forget, you can grate the butter on the largest hole of your box grater, so that the sugar and butter will mix together better. Chill your dough if it gets too soft work with.Read these tips hereon stopping dough from spreading during the baking process.
Royal Icing
You can find my favoriteroyal icing recipe here. The consistency of icing is key for easy decorating.Click hereto see a YouTube video on finding the right icing thickness.
Decorating Items
What you’ll need (Some of these are affiliate links):
- Piping Tips –PME #1.5,PME#2, PME #4, tip #233
- Piping Bags
- Couplers
- Gel paste colors
- Scribe ToolorToothpicks
- Hershey’s Eggies, regular and Cookies n’ Cream
- Circle cookie cutters
- I am no longer able to find the exact chicken cookie cutter online, but you can find similar oneshere.
- Goose cookie cutter
- Mini bird cookie cutter
Decorating Steps
This videoon outlining and flooding is a good place to start if you’re new to decorating cookies with royal icing. These cookie decorating basicsYouTube videosmay also be helpful to get you started.
To assemble the cookies, spread green icing on the circle cookies using a butter knife, and pipe brown circular “nests” on top with piping tip #4. Use a toothpick inserted into the base cookie as well as thick royal icing to prop up the hens and ducks and then pipe brown “hay” around them using grass tip #233. Place theEGGIES onto the icing next, while the icing is wet. Have fun decorating!
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to drop me a line below in the comment section or on social media. You can find me onFacebook,Google+,Instagram,Pinterest,TwitterandYouTube.
Happy baking!
xo,
Marian