If you can't come to New York City for the holidays, why not bring a little of Manhattan chic to your holiday cookies plate? These Chrysler Building sugar cookies in all their art deco splendor could be just the thing.
This clever cutter was in a set of NYC architectural landmarks I got ages ago. Never throw out a cookie cutter! You never know… When the time comes for a Guggenheim Museum I'm ready.
There are scads of bakers far better than I who will be better resources for the big wide world of Christmas Cookie recipes. The best I can offer are some pointers picked up along the way:
1. Choose a single stand-out cookie and go with it. Search out that unusual cookie cutter. Trust me, they're out there. The odder the better of course.
2. Forgo variety for volume. The impact of multiples pulls more focus than a merry hodge-podge of colors and shapes. Bonus: it's easier to make a lot of one thing. Bonus bonus: individual imperfections are harder to spot. In this case you see the forest, not the trees. So you get a pass on the "loving hands at home" look. Let's face it, no one's going to out-Martha Martha so do your best, do a lot of them and all will be well.
3. Keep your eyes peeled for usual decorating items. In my unfulfilled quest for classic silver dragées (which apparently have been demonized as some kind of choking hazard so aren't as easy to by come as before) I found silver decorating spray paint at Williams Sonoma. The silver jimmies at the buildings' base were a lucky find too.
4. Practice first. Use pre-made cookie dough from the grocery store to experiment with different designs first, so you'll be prepped with your plan when you bake the real ones.
My sugar cookie recipe is from the Good Housekeeping cookbook, but I'm confident your sugar cookie recipe will be splendid. For royal icing, I still live on the edge and use raw egg white; it seems a lot of nervous Nellies advise meringue powder mixed with water. Real egg white gives a good hard icing.
If you catch the royal icing passion, here's a bonus idea: gussie up sugar cubes to serve with coffee. Poinsettias are easy enough. The downside is that while everyone says "Oh how lovely," no one actually uses them.
But everyone loves a sugar cookie. Have fun!
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