How to Make Chalkboard Cookies

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Transform traditional sugar cookies into tasty works of art with a personalized flair. Whether your designs are intricate, elegant or just plain cute, every bite really is worth a thousand words.

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Making the Cookies

Things You'll Need

  • 2 cups flour

  • 1/8 teaspoon salt

  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

  • 1 stick butter

  • 3/4 cup sugar

  • 1 eggs

  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • Cookie sheet lined with parchment paper

  • Plastic wrap

  • Cup

Step 1: Sift Dry Ingredients

Sift the flour, salt, baking soda in a bowl.

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Mix dry ingredients
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Step 2: Combine Wet Ingredients

Cream room temperature butter and sugar until it is fluffy, then add egg and vanilla.

Cream butter and sugar
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Step 3: Add Dry Ingredients

Add flour mixture until well combined. Form into a ball and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate for an hour until firm.

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Combine with flour mixture
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour. Roll out with a rolling pin. Cut out shapes with a round cookie cutter or cup.

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Roll out and cut into shapes
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Step 4: Bake

Transfer to a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper placing 1" apart.

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Place on cookie sheet
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Step 5: Let Cool on a Rack

Bake for 10-13 minutes until slightly golden. Turn out onto a cooling rack. Let cool completely before icing.

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Bake 10-13 minutes
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Making the Icing

Things You'll Need

  • 2 cups powdered sugar

  • 1 egg white

  • Black food coloring

  • White gel paste food coloring

  • 2 tablespoons vodka (or water)

  • Various fine tipped brushes

  • Toothpick

Step 1: Separate Egg White

Separate an egg. Put the white in a bowl making sure not to get any yolk in the white.

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Separate an egg
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Step 2: Combine with Sugar

Combine the egg white with two cups powdered sugar in the stand up mixer with a paddle attachment on medium until thick yet runny like white glue.

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Combine in a mixer
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Step 3: Add Food Coloring

Add black food coloring. Mix well until all the icing is uniformly black.

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Add color
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Pour icing into a piping bag with a #2 tip attachment. Pipe a circle 1/8" from the edge of the cookie then fill in the circle with icing.

Pipe icing onto cookie
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Step 5: Pop Air Bubbles

Pop air bubbles with a toothpick and let dry for at least 8 hours.

Pop any air bubbles
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Squeeze a little white gel paste onto the parchment paper and with a fine tipped brush, paint the cookie. It is a good idea to practice on some of the cookies that didn't turn out so well first so you can get the hang of it before painting the best ones.

Paint cookie
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Step 7: Thin Paint with Vodka

Dip your paint brush in vodka to keep the consistency of the paint runny yet quick drying. You can also use water, but vodka dries faster, which sets your image quicker.

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Dip brush in vodka
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Step 8: Display and Serve

Let the cookies dry for a few hours before serving. Keep for up to two weeks in an airtight container.

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