Flower Cookies
These beautiful Flower Cookies are incredibly delicious and perfect for Spring. They are made with a simple sugar cookie base that has a touch of vanilla, green icing sugar and are decorated with smarties to form a flower. Colourful and cheerful, these smarties cookies are a great addition to your Easter dessert menu too.
Servings: 20 cookies
Calories: 179kcal
Ingredients
- 100 g butter, soft
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 250 g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 100 g icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon full-fat milk
- ¼ teaspoon green food colouring
- 1 cup smarties ( candies)
Instructions
- To make the cookies, add the soft butter and granulated sugar to a large mixing bowl, and use a hand mixer to beat them well until creamy.
- Crack in the egg and beat again.
- Sift in the flour, add the vanilla extract, and use your hands to knead it into a dough.
- Cover the dough with clingfilm and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Roll the dough using a rolling pin, and use flower-edged cookie cutters to cut out shapes.
- Line 2 baking trays with non-stick paper and arrange the cookies onto them - I got 20 cookies.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until the edges of the cookies are slightly golden.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool down completely.
- To make the icing, sift the icing sugar in a bowl, add the milk and use a spoon to mix them into a smooth paste.
- Add the food colouring, and mix well to have a uniform colour.
- Once the cookies have cooled down, add a teaspoon of the icing onto each cookie, making sure you don't spread it too close to the edges, and decorate with smarties.
- Allow the icing to set before serving.
Notes
- Allow the cookies to cool down completely before adding the icing on top, or the icing will be too runny and make a big mess. Do no not spread the icing too close to the edges of the cookies, it will spread too much.
- The icing will set fairly quickly, so any decoration has to be added straight away, if you allow the icing to set, the smarties will not stick to the cookies anymore.
Nutrition
Calories: 179kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 21mg | Sodium: 43mg | Potassium: 19mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 163IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 18mg | Iron: 1mg