How to Make Sugar Cookies
Britney
Do you ever have a craving for something sweet? One of my favorite sweets to satisfy my sweet tooth are sugar cookies. They are really easy to make and taste delicious. You can even use creative designs to make them different and unique. Using these ingredients and materials and following these steps makes baking sugar cookies easy.
To prepare to make the sugar cookies, first you will need to preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Second, you will want to wash your hands. Next, gather and measure the ingredients. The items necessary for making your delicious sugar cookies can be found in your kitchen or at your local grocery store. These ingredients are: two and three-fourths cups all-purpose flour, one teaspoon of baking soda, half of a teaspoon of baking powder, one cup of softened butter, one and a half cups of white sugar, one egg and one teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Now it is time to make your sugar cookies, you will start by mixing the flour, baking soda and baking powder in a small bowl. Then, you will get a big bowl and cream together the softened butter and white sugar until they are smooth. After, you will beat in the egg and the vanilla. When this is mixed completely, slowly add your mixture of dry ingredients from the small bowl into the big bowl. Once this is
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thoroughly mixed, roll the cookie dough into round balls about the size of a teaspoon. If you prefer to, you can also roll the dough out and use cookie cutters to make fun shapes. Lastly, put the cookie dough on an ungreased cookie sheet and place it in the oven. Let the cookies bake for about eight to ten minutes. While the cookies are baking, make the icing.
To prepare to make the icing, you will need to first gather and measure your ingredients. The items needed to make the icing are: two teaspoons of fresh lemon juice, two large egg whites and three cups of powdered sugar. Start by separating the egg whites from the yolks. Next, whisk together the egg whites and the lemon juice. After this is fully mixed, slowly add the powdered sugar until it is all mixed together. If you would like to color the icing you can add a few drops of any color food coloring that you want. Mix this together and then the icing is
ready. When the cookies are done, take them out of the oven and let them cool. After the cookies have completely cooled you can decorate them however you like. You can put your icing in a piping bag, or you can spread it on the cookies using a knife. Using the piping bag you can create fun and colorful designs. There are also many other ways to decorate sugar cookies some way are you can put sprinkles on them or even leave them plain. Sugar cookies are delicious and easy to make. For some people, baking is a way to show their creativity. You can make your cookies as simple or as detailed as you want. All cookies are unique, you can decorate them all different ways, using icing to make beautiful creations. Using these ingredients and following these steps makes baking sugar cookies easy.
...ease the speed to medium. Slowly add the remaining sugar to the egg whites and continue to mix.
Kit-kats, Hershey bars, Skittles, and Jolly Ranchers. The reason these sweets, and many other products, are so popular is because of their sugar content. It’s hard to imagine that something used in nearly every food today was practically nonexistent at one point. But this is true- sugar wasn’t introduced globally until the 1500’s. Following this introduction, the trade that sprung up would come to be one of the most successful and profitable in the world. The Sugar Trade’s success was driven by many factors. Out of those several factors, the ones that promised success were high consumer demand, willing investors with a lot of capital, and the usage of slave labor.
To do so, you must combine one cup of powdered sugar, one tablespoon of melted butter,
Why would anyone feel the need to write an entire book on such a mundane topic such as sugar? Look around at some food products you might have and you will realize that many if not all of them contain sugar in some form or another. For example, a can of soda, which most people drink everyday, contains (depending on the brand) approximately 40 grams of sugars. Look further and you might find that even things such as cheese or chips or soup contain several grams of sugar in them. The wide diversification of products that contain sugar just goes to show you how widespread the use of sugar really is. This fact alone could be enough to convince someone to create a book solely about sugar. One passage that Mintz quotes on page 15 that really seems to capture our (Westerners) infatuation with sugar, and a strong reason the book at hand is as follows:
Humans, bears, and trees all have one thing in common, they all have atoms and molecules. They also need the four elements of life to survive, Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen. (CHON) An atom is the smallest part of an element that is still that element. A molecule is two or more atoms joined and acting as a unit. There are four different types of molecules, they are, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
Sugar is an important part of history in many ways. Sugar brought a lot of change to the world. The power of sugar molded the history and put many different nations on the map, which includes the Caribbean, South America, and the southern parts of the United States. Sugar Fueled the slave trade, brought sweetness to an era of sour, and brought different groups of people together.
Opening the refrigerator door, I locate two ingredients: eggs and butter. Grabbing the ingredients, I place them on the island sitting vertically in the middle of my rectangular kitchen. I then walk around the island to a cabinet to find baking powder and vanilla extract. Scanning and searching through all the spices and other items, I see the desired components. Finally, I walk across the kitchen to a cabinet standing high on my tippy toes because the protruding countertop makes the cabinet hard to reach. In this cabinet, I find the flour and sugar. I examine all of the goods on the island. The ingredients needed for a sugar cookie recipe, I have made countless times for the last five years.
There are plenty of sugary soft drinks in the market today. Sugary soft drinks are included as drinks defined by the US Department of Agriculture and the US Department of Health and Human Services in their Dietary Guidelines for Americans as “sugar-sweetened beverages” that contain different types of sugars that contribute calories. Examples of these are lemonade, sports drinks, energy drinks, carbonated sodas and sweetened teas and coffees (Marrow,2011).
Sanding sugar is a coarse-grained refined sugar that is used mostly for decoration. It is sold in colored and uncolored varieties with the colored variety containing food coloring. In both cases, the crystals are shiny and hold up to heat. This sugar can be found in many grocery stores and baking supply stores, but it can be expensive. If you cannot find it or are on a budget, try one of the sanding sugar substitutes below.
The delicious smell of chocolate chip cookies is known to everyone across the nation. Americans thrive on deserts and chocolate chip cookies happen to be one of the many favorites. As there are many different types of deserts, there are also many different brands of chocolate chip cookies. Most Americans have their own preferences about which chocolate chip cookie they consider the best. I made it my goal to go out an find the best chocolate chip cookie by surveying people and testing three popular brands of cookies for flavor, chewiness, and appearance.
Then, move the bowl to the side. Take the bigger bowl and break three large eggs. Whisk the eggs briefly until they form a smooth yellow ingredient, then you will add the caster sugar and whisk until you have a thick light yellow substance which looks a bit like a thick milkshake. When lifting the whisk and the mixture it leaves a trail on the surface for a few seconds, and you know that the whisk has done the job.
Sugar set up many different relationships between the Europeans and the rest of the upcoming new world. The group activity we did in class, when we all got into trading groups and each group had their own commodity to sale, at the time no one wanted sugar. All of the groups either was looking for gold, or iron and some needed salt. Sugar became one of the top selling commodities Sugar is one of the reasons the triangle slave trade, got started and became so big. Along with gold, the growing of sugar was in such high demand.
(Attention Getter) It’s very likely that everyone in this room has tried to bake something before and failed miserably. You might have failed because you misread the directions or maybe you tried to substitute an ingredient, and ended up ruining the entire product. Well, I am here to give you guys a quick and easy recipe for chocolate chip cookies that even sleep-deprived college students can follow.
It wasn’t until the 1950s that sugar-free gum was introduced to the market (ICGA 2013). Sugar free gum is made with five basic ingredients. The gum base gives the gum a smooth texture and holds all the substances into one solid mass (Wrigley Jr. Company, 2012). The gum base is melted and purified before it is made into the gum (Wrigley Jr. Company, 2012). In Extra’s classic bubble flavored gum, the sweetening agent is sorbitol (Wrigley Jr. Company, 2012).
Flour, chocolate chips, a mixing bowl; these are some of the ingredients to make a batch of cookies. Most people believe the process is simple enough; you mix the ingredients to make the dough, and then bake until it becomes brown. I thought it would be near impossible to mess up until one fateful day. Who knew that making chocolate chip cookies would go so terribly wrong? I can say that this was definitely a memorable day in my life.