Pink Door Cookies

FOR THE SUGAR COOKIES

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Cream together butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, until combined.
3. Mix in eggs and vanilla.
4. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt.
5. Mix on med-hi until combined.
6. You’ll know your cookie mix is ready when most of it sticks to the mixing paddle.
7. Roll dough out onto a floured surface (about 1/2 inch thick)
8. Cut into shapes with cutters of choice.
9. Bake cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet for about 6 minutes.
10. Remove from heat and cool.

FOR THE ROYAL ICING

1. Combine powdered sugar and meringue powder in the bowl of an electric mixer.
2. Add extract and water and beat on high for about 5 minutes.
3. The icing will be very thick. This will be the consistency for piping and details. Divide the thick icing between 3 bowls and add food coloring to the make pink and green icing. Keep the white as is. The door is a light pink color, so a little food coloring will go a long way. You can also add a little black to the green icing to darken it.
4. Once the the pink and green colors are achieved, spoon enough thick royal icing into each piping bag for piping and details. You’ll want one piping bag for each color of detail icing.
5. Thin out the remaining icing to flooding consistency by adding warm water a few drops at time, be sure not to make it too thin. To test it, it should take about 5 seconds to spread completely, once thinned.
6. Transfer each color of flood icing to piping bags.
7. DECORATING
8. Using pink detail icing, pipe the rectangle shape of each door onto the cookies, leaving space at the bottom for the white curb and address. Flood each door with pink flood icing. You can use a toothpick or icing tool to pop air bubbles in the icing. Repeat steps for all cookies, then pipe and flood the white rectangle on the bottom of each cookie. Set aside to dry.
9. Once cookies have dried, you can begin adding decorative details.
10. That Pink Door has 3 squares across and 9 down for a total of 27 squares on each door.
11. Create the look of the squares by using a pink edible ink pen to draw them onto each door. Repeat steps to add pink squares to all of the cookies.
12. Once squares have dried, add a door handle with white detail icing.
13. And the address numbers “1100” with white detail icing.
14. Set aside to dry.
15. Once the door handles and address numbers have dried, paint them silver with edible silver paint.
16. Lastly pipe green plants on either side of the door cookies, and finish with a little white edible glitter.