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Italian Sugar Cookies

April 9, 2014 by Kay 8 Comments

Italian Sugar Cookies are tender morsels of delicious sugar cookies with a light glaze and pretty sprinkles added to the top.

These cookies pretty much melt in your mouth, they are so soft and sweet. Trust me when I say you won’t be able to eat just one.

I usually make these Italian Sugar Cookies Christmas but I thought this would be a nice Easter treat as well. Adding the bright colored sprinkles reminds me of spring colors. These would be great to bake with kids or grand kids, they can help decorate the cookies with their favorite sprinkles.

I used a 1 tablespoon cookie scoop to form the cookies and I baked them for 8 and a half minutes in my oven. They had just started to turn golden on the bottom of the cookie. You might notice some slight cracking on the top of the cookie, this is normal.

This is the dough after I mixed it.

This is the dough after I mixed it in my Kitchen Aid mixer.

Here are the cookies before I baked them.

Here are the cookies before I baked them.

Here they are fresh out of the oven.

Here they are fresh out of the oven.

Love the color of these cookies.

Love the color of these cookies.

I found a use for my cute Easter Egg shaped plate.

I found a use for my cute Easter Egg shaped plate.

Italian Sugar Cookies

Italian Sugar Cookies

I had a lot of colored sprinkles on hand.

I had a lot of colored sprinkles on hand.

Italian Sugar Cookies

Italian Sugar Cookies

Enjoy!

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Italian Sugar Cookies

Yield: Approx. 3 dozen cookies

Italian Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

  • Cookies:
  • 3/4 cup shortening
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • Icing:
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
  • Colored sprinkles

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • In your mixer cream together the shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla and the eggs one at a time until fully incorporated.
  • In a separate bowl sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Turn your mixer on low and add the flour mixture 1 cup at a time, turn the mixer up one speed and mix for a minute or two until well combined.
  • Using a 1 tablespoon cookie scoop form the cookies and place on the baking sheets or you can form the cookies by hand. Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
  • For icing, in a small bowl, combine milk, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar until smooth. Dip the top of the cookie in the icing and sprinkle with colored sprinkles.
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Adapted from Taste of Home

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  1. Gloria Phillips says

    April 15, 2014 at 4:46 pm

    Kay, I love how you decorated these decadent cookies! Thank you for sharing these sugar cookies with us at the Show Stopper this week!

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  2. Simple Living Eating (@SimpleLivingEat) says

    April 15, 2014 at 7:29 pm

    I love how the cookies look like easter eggs… so festive. Thanks for bringing them to foodie friday.

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  3. Annamaria @ Bakewell Junction says

    April 17, 2014 at 8:59 pm

    Kay,
    Thanks for linking this lovely recipe to #GetHimFed No. 30. I’m featuring your recipe on #GetHimFed No. 31. Hope you link up this week too. Happy Easter.
    Annamaria

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    • Kay says

      April 17, 2014 at 9:04 pm

      Thanks for featuring my recipe Annamaria!

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  4. Cindy Howell says

    April 19, 2014 at 6:47 pm

    These look soooooo good! I love cookies of all kinds. šŸ™‚

    Thank you so much for sharing at last week’s Super Saturday Afternoon Tea Link-Up!!!

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  5. Laura@Baking In Pyjamas says

    April 20, 2014 at 10:39 am

    I can imagine these are so tender and buttery. Thanks for linking up to Sweet and Savoury Sunday, stop by and link up again. Happy Easter, have a great weekend!

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  6. Julie@Sweet and Spicy Monkey says

    May 1, 2014 at 12:12 pm

    I’ve wanted to try making Italian sugar cookies and your recipe sounds so easy, I will be trying these soon! Love how you decorated them for Easter too! Thanks for sharing šŸ˜‰

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