Autumn Leaves Cookies
Ingredients
• 6 cups flour
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 2 cups unsalted butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract, almond or desired flavoring
• 1 tsp. salt
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Mix dry ingredients and add a little at a time to butter mixture. Mix until flour is completely incorporated and the dough comes together.
- Chill for 1 to 2 hours
- Roll to desired thickness and cut into desired shapes. Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 350 degrees F (176 C) for 8 to 10 minutes or until just beginning to turn brown around the edges. This recipe can make up to 5-dozen 3″ cookies.
Icing Ingredients
• 2 lbs of powedered sugar
• 1/3 cup light Karo corn syrup
• 1-2 TBS of clear vanilla and or clear almond extract (or some of both).
• milk or water to adjust consistency
Icing Instructions
- Mix powdered sugar, corn syrup and flavorings together at a low speed until thoroughly blended without any small pockets of powdered sugar. Do not use high speed or you will end up with bubbles.
- For thicker icing to use for outlining or writing, add additional powdered sugar until you get the desired consistency.
- For thinner icing to fill in designs, add very small amounts of milk or water until you get the consistency you want.
- Can be stored in the refrigerator for a week, but should be room temperature again before using.
Icing Tips
Add outline icings to parchment paper cones or icing bags with tiny tips. Outline the design onto your cookie with the thick icing. Use thinner icing to fill in the design by either spooning small amount in and spreading around or using icing bags to squeeze out and spread around.
Once the cookies are completely dry, go back with the thicker icing and draw on any additional designs or details you like.
For the autumn leaves, I added brown icing around the outside, red just inside that, then orange and then yellow icing in the center. I used a toothpick to pull the colors through each other, creating veins. Once the cookie icing was completely dry, I painted more veins on top with red food coloring.
Amazing! These are so pretty. I’d really hate to eat them.
I have been looking for some great cookies for fall but only found pumpkin flavored. Not a huge fan of pumpkin but I love these! The best part is I already have all the ingredients! Thanks for posing, this is a must have recipe!
Thanks for this. These are adorable. Now let’s see how bad I can screw them up. lol
These are absolutely gorgeous! By far THE MOST beautiful leaf cookies I’ve seen anyone do. I am working on some myself today and was pretty pleased with them until I happened upon yours! lol Great work!!
Ha! 🙂 Thank you!
But I have to say, I’m sure yours are gorgeous! I checked out your blog and you are seriously talented! 🙂
Here’s a link for everyone else:
http://achicknbiscuits.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-couple-of-other-projects-from-this.html
Nice work! 🙂
Wow, thanks! I finally put my fall ones up.
They’re gorgeous. I love the colors and designs. 🙂
Here they are for everyone else who wants to check them out:
http://achicknbiscuits.blogspot.com/2013/10/where-oh-where-have-i-been.html
Wow these cookies are beautiful. I could never make them look that pretty!
These look AMAZING! Like a big Professional Cooking/Baking Company made them and just put them on a shelf.
I love the way you did these!
Thanks for the Post, Picture, and the Recipe!
The icing is beautiful, it looks like it was done by a professional!! Thank you for posting this recipe and the icing tips!!
I have never seen a cookie that beautiful! They look yummy too! Thanks for posting!
I love these cookies! They are so beautiful they look like a work of art.Thanks for the recipe!
those are beautiful…. they are too pretty to eat!
these came out fantastic! Last year I was on a leaf cookie mission – I scourged the stores for the perfect maple leaf, and ended up getting one online. I decorated them with red, green and yellow/orange, but it was sooo much harder than I realized! Yours came out much better, and I give you much credit for the result. This does look like a good recipe for cutters, I’ll have to keep this one!!! I still want to make my maple leaf cookies this year, but I wasn’t going to use the coloring, now you have me thinking about that…..
These are gorgeous. They look like the cookies that come pictured in the Christmas catalogs that come in the mail. What a talent to make something like this!
these are amazing!! too pretty to eat! the really look like a professtional made them. these would sure be a hit at thanksgiving, but i think i would have to give them as favors to take home because i dont think i could bear to watch the kids gobble them up!
these are amazing! thank you for the recipe
they look really good thanks for the recipe
I just received one of these cookies as a gift! It was so pretty and delicious, too!
wow pretty!
These are such pretty cookies! They are almost too pretty to eat! But I can make an exception haha. I wish I could decorate cookies to make them that beautiful! Thanks also for the recipe.
these are gorgeous!
These are absolutely gorgeous! I don’t know that I can make them this pretty, but I would love to try them.