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For those of you who don’t know, Vermont is known for Maple during this time of year. All true Vermonter’s know good maple syrup. Sometimes even a family member makes it! Needless to say, Vermonter’s love their maple flavors. You can find maple candy, maple popcorn, maple bacon, maple lattes – basically anything maple you can find in this state. (I say as I sip my maple coffee cake iced coffee.)
My nephew, Liam, and I hang out from time to time. I honestly can’t believe how fast he has grown up. He is about to be 13 years old. He is on the go all the time so it is nice to spend time with him when I can. The last time we spent the day together, he decided he wanted to make some cookies. If you have been following along with some of my other recipes, you will find this recipe to be a bit similar to another one, but with a different flare. He decided on a sugar cookie of sorts. When I pulled out my basket of flavors, he chose maple! Like the true Vermonter that he is.
So today’s recipe is a Maple Sugar Cookie dusted with some powdered sugar (also his idea). Honestly, I was very pleased with how these turned out. The maple flavor goes perfect with a buttery sugar cookie and the dusting of powdered sugar is just a little pizazz to dress it up. This is a great alternative to the standard vanilla sugar cookie and perfect to share with the ones you love!
I hope you make and enjoy this cookie recipe as much as Liam and I do and share it with friends and family. Be sure to share some photos with me on instagram of your creations @emilygetstobaking.
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Liam’s Maple Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter, salted
- 1 cup Granulated sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 ½ – 2 tsp Maple extract
- ½ tsp Vanilla extract
- 3 cups AP flour
- ½ tsp Sea salt
- 2 tsp Baking powder
- 2 cups Powdered sugar
- Gel or powdered food coloring of your choice
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350℉. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- In your mixer bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, add the flour, salt and baking powder together and whisk.
- Back to your mixer, add in your egg and extracts. Mix again on low for a few minutes until ingredients are incorporated.
- Still on low speed, add in your dry ingredients. Just a little at a time and mix until dough ball forms.
- If your dough is still a little dry, take it out and work it with your hands into manageable dough balls.
- Roll between two pieces of parchment paper until flat. We used a rolling pin with thickness rings to help us have even cookies. We did about 1/4" thick cookies.
- Cut with your favorite cookie cutter shapes! Place onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes, depending on how big the cutters you are using are. You are looking for the edge just to slightly turn a golden brown color.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool on the baking sheet for at least 5 minutes. Move to a cookie rack there after.
- Continue this process until you have used up all of the dough.
To make the colored powdered sugar
- There are two ways to color the sugar. Grab your food processor.
- Measure out 2 cups of powdered sugar, separate evenly if making multiple colors.
- For powdered color, just all the color and sugar together in the processor and mix. Continue to add color until you get the desired color you want. I did not have powdered color so I did the gel color option listed next.
- For gel color, add in your powdered sugar to the processor. Add in 2 drops of gel color (small ones). Process for a minute to two. The trick is to make sure you add just a little color at a time because it's gel and will clump if you do too much.
- Continue to add a few drops at a time and then run the processor again for a few minutes. Just know with gel colors, there is a limit of no return. It will get too clumpy and not be a powder any longer. Gel colors are always going to be a lighter color versus powdered colors. I would say I added about 10-12 drops of color to achieve the green color. A little less for the pink color.
- I placed my mixed powdered sugar out thinly on a plate for it to air dry a bit before using it on my cookies
- Place completely cooled cookies on a cooling rack on top of a piece of parchment paper. Put a little bit of your colored powdered sugar into a sieve and lightly hit it against your hand over the top of the cookies. You can choose how much or how little to do.
- Enjoy!