Happy Independence Day & Iced Sugar Cookies

Happy Pakistan Independence Day!

May Allah bless our nation, may all our dreams come true, may our nation shine bright

Today & always!

Long Live Pakistan!

A sugar cookie is a cookie made from butter, sugar, flour, eggs, vanilla and baking powder or baking soda. Sugar cookies can be made by hand or rolled and cut into shapes. They can be decorated with Icing, frosting, colored sugar or sprinkles. Easy to make & perfect to decorate!

Made these cookies few days back, just before Ramadan. I used green & white colors for Icing, keeping the colors of Pakistani flag in mind. Just made a small batch, using 1/4th of the original recipe. The dough was little sticky, so chilled at least an hour to firm up the dough & worked with a quarter of the dough at a time. Sorry for my poor Icing skills, but they tastes delicious  :)

Iced Sugar Cookies

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Recipe by Jill Saunders at allrecipes

* Prep. Time : 20 minutes
* Cook Time : 8 minutes
* Makes : 24 - 30 cookies, depending on the size & thickness of the cookies

Ingredients :

• 1/4 cup and 2 tbsp. butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/8 tsp. salt

 Method :

• In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. 
• Beat in egg and vanilla. 
• Stir in the flour, baking powder and salt. 
• Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour or overnight ( Make sure to chill the dough as the dough is slightly sticky ).
• Preheat oven to 400 F / 200 C.
• Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface ( or between two sheets of plastic wrap ) until it is 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. 
• Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. 
• Place cookies 1 inch apart on a paper lined cookie sheet. 
• If you don't want Icing on the cookies, you can sprinkle colored or sparkling sugar on the unbaked cookies. 
• Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven, remove from oven when edges just begin to brown.
• Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Make sure the cookies have completely cooled before Icing.

For Icing :
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From bakingsheet

• 1 cup Icing / confectioners sugar, divided
• 2 tbsp. milk, divided
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract, divided
• Few drops of food coloring

• Place 1/2 cup of sugar in 2 small bowls. Add milk, vanilla and a few drops of your desired food color to each bowl. 
• Mix thoroughly with a fork, until smooth and a good consistency: thin for filling in large spaces and thick for making clear lines. Add extra milk if necessary.
• Scrape each color into a small zip-lock plastic bag.
• Snip the corner of the bag to ice cookies.
• Working with 1 cookie at a time, pipe Icing over cookie. 
• Let stand on a wire rack until set.

Well, there are some great news to share:

Firstly, my Mango Cake Balls recipe was featured on Sweet Tooth Favorites! Thank you so much Alli of Allison ... that was so sweet of you!

Then, a dear friend & a fellow Pakistani blogger Khadija of  CREATIVE MIND surprised me by featuring my Spinach Fritters recipe at her blog. Thank you dear, I really appreciate it. Do check out her creative crafty ideas. Want to know more about Pakistan, check out her random posts about Pakistan here. 


Jill of Creating my way to Success shared this great news that my blog is going to be featured at her space on Monday ( as it was the most voted link on A Round Tuit (61) ). Thank you so much Jill, so excited about it. Please visit here, if you want to see it & feel free to leave a comment. A special thank you to my friends who voted for me :)

Roz of  la bella vita featured my Fruit & Cream recipe at Fresh Food Friday this week. So delighted to see that, Thank you so much Roz :)

Lastly, Ayeesha of Taste of Pearl City selected my recipe at Any One Can Cook this week . Thank you so much Ayeesha :)


Once again, thanks to all of you for this encouragement :)

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