Happy 4th of July! I wanted to whip up a fun treat to celebrate the holiday this weekend and while I was mulling over the red, white, and blue color scheme, I was reminded of the Chicago Cubs Dessert Sushi I made last year. Suddenly a light bulb went off – I should try making decorations with my eggless sugar cookie dough, which was the base of my dessert sushi! While I like playing with marshmallow fondant and creating crisp cute shapes to top cakes and cupcakes, I don’t enjoy the overly sweet bland taste and have often wondered why no one has come up with a tastier alternative. So, here’s my attempt!
Eggless sugar cookie dough is absolutely delicious so I whipped up a small batch, rolled it out, made cute little shapes with cookie cutters, and topped some Oreos with my designs. The dough is not quite as stiff as fondant, so you have to be a bit more careful with it, but I think it has a lot of potential! It’s also very moldable like Play Doh so I was able to make some cute little American flags. I’m going to try decorating cupcakes with it next time and maybe play around with chilling the dough as well before rolling it out. Overall, I think my foodie arts and crafts project was pretty successful! Ok, I’m off to eat a hot dog and munch on some yummy sweet potato chips from Trader Joe’s – hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend!
Sugar Cookie Dough Decorations
Printable Recipe
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
Food coloring
Directions:
Mix butter and sugar in a large bowl until creamed. Add milk and vanilla and mix until smooth; stir in flour and salt and knead with your hands until well mixed (if the dough is too sticky you can add 1 more tablespoon flour). Mix dough with desired food colorings. Roll dough out with a rolling pin and use cookie cutters to create cute shapes or mold dough into desired shapes by hand. Top cookies or cupcakes with your decorations!
Nutrition: 784 calories, 35.8g fat, 2.0g fiber, 8.9g protein per batch
Cost: $1.15 per batch
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These cookies are super cute. And yeah. Way tastier than fondant!
Hope you had a happy 4th!
Those American flag cookies look the best!!
Lovely looking cookies!
It’s always so much fun to decorate food for holidays!
oh those are adorable!
I’m impressed that you were able to come up with an eggless cookie recipe. I love how you’ve shaped and decorated your cookies. They look terrific. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings…Mary
What a fun idea! Eggless sugar cookie dough sounds like it would be the perfect center for a truffle
ya done good, kerstin–patriotic and tasty! cookie kudos to you.
Adorable!
These are so cute! And it’s true… Why is there no tasty version of fondant?? Hope you had a fabulous weekend!
Those look so cute! Hope you had a great holiday weekend!
So creative! What a sweet way (pun intended!) to spend the 4th!! Pretty, too!
Glad I found your blog. Look forward to following you here. Thanks for the kind words about my dish.
Be well
Oh they look absolutely adorable, I wish I had seen these sooner. I LOVE them!
These are adorable. I love that you enjoy playing with your food. All your creations really look great and fun.
I’ve always wondered about a better-tasting fondant. Hope you do experiment with this on cakes and let us know how it goes!
those look awesome! i wonder if you can shape those into animals for the cake
You do the coolest stuff. I took a cookie decorating class with my mom and sister a few weeks ago and it was nothing this interesting! I wish I lived near you, I’d take classes!
Wow, love the way you decorated the cookies…indeed it is great way to celebrate…very very cute
These are so cute and you’re right, so much more tasty than fondant. Hope you had a happy 4th!
So cute! Your decorating skills (and desire to decorate) put me to shame
I love this idea! Eggless cookie dough is such a great way to get that delicious cookie dough flavor without the health risk. You can have fun doing designs and colors for any holiday!
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Thanks everyone! I’m hooked and will definitely be playing with it more in the future