Coloring Sugar Cookie Dough

Yesterday I dyed some cookie dough, I thought that with spring here the cookies would look particularly festive. I am thrilled with the results and this also gave me the perfect chance to show off some of the new cookie cutters I received for my birthday. My parents sent me a gift card to Bake It Pretty and I went hog wild! I bought some new cutters, frosting tips, jimmies and disco dust!

I used my trusty cookie recipe, and added some dye.

For the frosting I decided to not use royal icing but a different kind, it's called Glace Icing, and I found it on Our Best Bites site. I like to add more powdered sugar to make a thicker icing.

Glacé Icing 
1lb powdered sugar (about 3 3/4 C) plus 1 cup
6T whole milk (low-fat actually works, but use whole if you can)
6T light Corn Syrup (6T is equal to 1/4 C plus another 2 T)
1 t extract (I use almond because I use almond in my sugar cookies) I've also added orange flavor and it was delish.
With a whisk, combine sugar and milk until smooth (no lumps!) Then stir in corn syrup and extract.


I also used some of the royal icing decorations I made a few weeks ago, they were perfect for these cookies!

Start with some dough and coloring

Put a big schmear of icing on the dough

Start kneading

Orange!

Let's try a different color

Yellow!

My cute new beehive cookie cutter, 

makes me think of Utah!

I love my carrots!

I let the cookies be the star, not the frosting

Here are my royal icing dots

Butterfly don't fly away

Carrot close up

I can't wait to make these the next time family from Utah

visits!

Some good old traditional circular cookies

A princess crown for my favorite neighbor

Love the square cookie cutter

Now to pack them up for gifting

Lucy's box

I love the Easter grass, tins from Target

dollar section

Ready to take next door

Who will get these?

Enjoy!