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Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 12 cookies
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Ingredients
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1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled, cut into small pieces
3/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
3 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
Pinch of salt
Royal Icing for Sugar Cookies
Red and blue paste food colorings
Cook's Notes
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
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Read the full recipe after the video.
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 12 cookies
Flag Cookies
Gallery
Read the full recipe after the video.
Read the full recipe after the video.
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 12 cookies
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 12 cookies
Yield: Makes 12 cookies
Makes 12 cookies
Flag Cookies
Flag Cookies
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled, cut into small pieces
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- Pinch of salt
- Royal Icing for Sugar Cookies
- Red and blue paste food colorings
Directions
Cut a 3-by-5-inch template out of lightweight cardboard, or create a template by stacking several index cards together, then wrapping them in plastic wrap, leaving one side smooth; set aside. Line 2 baking sheets with Silpat baking mats or parchment paper, and set aside.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar for 1 minute. Add vanilla, flour, and salt, and mix until just combined, 1 to 2 minutes more.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick. Place the smooth side of the template onto the dough, and cut out a rectangle using a paring knife; repeat to make a total of 16 rectangles, re-rolling dough as needed.
Transfer rectangles to prepared baking sheets using a wide spatula. Chill for at least 1 hour.
Bake cookies until they are just beginning to color and are lightly firm to the touch, 15 to 18 minutes. Remove to cooling rack, and let cool completely.
Divide the royal icing evenly among 4 bowls, and cover each tightly with plastic wrap. Set one bowl aside for outlining the cookies. Add red food coloring to one of the bowls, and mix thoroughly, adding more food coloring if necessary to obtain desired color. Add 2 or 3 teaspoons of water to icing so it is loose enough to flow easily off of a spatula when lifted and forms a ribbon that dissolves almost immediately. Replace plastic wrap, and cover tightly. Repeat this process with another bowl of icing using blue food coloring. To the third bowl of icing, add just the water, and mix thoroughly. Recover all bowls tightly with plastic wrap.
Transfer the reserved outlining icing to a small pastry bag fitted with a No. 5 tip. Pipe an even line on the outside edges of the cookie. Divide the cookie in half with a horizontal line. To form the outline of the canton (the field of stars), pipe a vertical line 1/3 of the way from the left side of the cookie until it meets the first horizontal line. To form the stripes, pipe two evenly spaced horizontal lines above the original horizontal line and to the right of the canton. Pipe 3 more evenly spaced horizontal lines from left to right under the canton. Repeat this process on the remaining cookies. Reserve the icing in the pastry bag for the stars. Allow the icing to dry for at least 1 hour.
Place the remaining 3 icings into separate squeeze bottles. Flood the field of stars with enough blue icing to fill the space evenly without overflowing. Use the tip of a small knife or a wooden skewer to push the icing completely into the corners. Using the same technique, flood every other stripe with the red icing. Allow the icing to dry for at least 2 hours. Flood the remaining stripes with the white icing.
Change the tip of the pastry bag with the reserved white icing to a No. 16 tip. Pipe out as many stars onto the blue icing as will fit. Allow the icing to dry.
Cook's Notes
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
Cook’s Notes
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
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16 Ratings
5 star values:
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3 star values:
7
2 star values:
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16 Ratings
5 star values:
1
4 star values:
3
3 star values:
7
2 star values:
1
1 star values:
4
16 Ratings
5 star values:
1
4 star values:
3
3 star values:
7
2 star values:
1
1 star values:
4
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Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/03/2010
Those who go to the "egg-free royal icing recipe" Please note the comments.
The recipe uses egg white powder. so those with egg allergies should be
aware. egg white powder is dried egg whites.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/03/2010
THANKS FOR SHOWING US HOW TO MAKE THESE BEAUTIFUL PATRIOTIC COOKIES!!! HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY TO ALL!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
06/17/2010
These cookies were very very cute but took a long time to make and didn't taste all that good. They just tasted like royal icing which looks nice but tastes like powdered sugar. But if you just love the novelty and fun of these cookies, I'd say they're worth making.
Also, be sure to do the icing the way she does in the video. I did it all with piping bags and it made a big mess and the cookies looked less neat. Had I done it how she does, they probably would have looked just like hers!
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
08/09/2009
These really are adorable. But how do they taste? Is the cookie good???
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/06/2008
Cute cookies but MAN did they take forever! I may try to use a flat tip to make the stripes next time. Do not preheat your oven until AFTER you chill the dough for an hour. I used a heart-shaped cookie cutter for a fun change. I don't think the cookies lasted five minutes at the cookout I brought them to. Thank you for sharing this recipe! :o)
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/03/2008
These were fun to make, but man did they take forever. Mine look nothing like the picture. Mine have crooked lines and not a true red stripes which gives them character I suppose. My three year old had a lot of fun decoration his cookies with the squeeze bottles though.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/02/2008
These cookies sound yummy, look very professional, and patriotic. The only thing wrong is that the top stripe should be red and not white. We can make that little change. God bless our brave men and women in the military whatever their job might be. We are very proud of them and respect them highly.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/02/2008
Beautiful and most patriotic. Thanks Martha
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/02/2008
Love these cookies. We are going to the local Army Base for the 4th. I'll be sure to bring these along! Love the cookie a day! Thank you.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/02/2008
I Love this idea!
WHAT A WONDERFUL way to celebrate and honor our heros at home and
over seas. THANKS MARTHA I will pass them out at the PARADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/02/2008
I noticed that the recipe said to preheat the oven before making the cookie dough but then later it says to chill them for at least an hour. I'm sure it was a mistake but just wanted to let somebody know it needs to be changed.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/02/2008
I think these cookies sound great. Very cute too!
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
07/03/2010
Those who go to the "egg-free royal icing recipe" Please note the comments.
The recipe uses egg white powder. so those with egg allergies should be
aware. egg white powder is dried egg whites.
Rating: Unrated
THANKS FOR SHOWING US HOW TO MAKE THESE BEAUTIFUL PATRIOTIC COOKIES!!! HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY TO ALL!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Rating: Unrated
06/17/2010
These cookies were very very cute but took a long time to make and didn't taste all that good. They just tasted like royal icing which looks nice but tastes like powdered sugar. But if you just love the novelty and fun of these cookies, I'd say they're worth making.
Also, be sure to do the icing the way she does in the video. I did it all with piping bags and it made a big mess and the cookies looked less neat. Had I done it how she does, they probably would have looked just like hers!
Rating: Unrated
08/09/2009
These really are adorable. But how do they taste? Is the cookie good???
Rating: Unrated
07/06/2008
Cute cookies but MAN did they take forever! I may try to use a flat tip to make the stripes next time. Do not preheat your oven until AFTER you chill the dough for an hour. I used a heart-shaped cookie cutter for a fun change. I don't think the cookies lasted five minutes at the cookout I brought them to. Thank you for sharing this recipe! :o)
Rating: Unrated
07/03/2008
These were fun to make, but man did they take forever. Mine look nothing like the picture. Mine have crooked lines and not a true red stripes which gives them character I suppose. My three year old had a lot of fun decoration his cookies with the squeeze bottles though.
Rating: Unrated
07/02/2008
These cookies sound yummy, look very professional, and patriotic. The only thing wrong is that the top stripe should be red and not white. We can make that little change. God bless our brave men and women in the military whatever their job might be. We are very proud of them and respect them highly.
Beautiful and most patriotic. Thanks Martha
Love these cookies. We are going to the local Army Base for the 4th. I'll be sure to bring these along! Love the cookie a day! Thank you.
I Love this idea!
WHAT A WONDERFUL way to celebrate and honor our heros at home and
over seas. THANKS MARTHA I will pass them out at the PARADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I noticed that the recipe said to preheat the oven before making the cookie dough but then later it says to chill them for at least an hour. I'm sure it was a mistake but just wanted to let somebody know it needs to be changed.
I think these cookies sound great. Very cute too!
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