Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies Get a New Look: Natural Food Colouring
When I was a child we made sugar cookies every Christmas. As we waited patiently for the dough to cool in the fridge Mom would whip up the icing and divide it into tiny bowls. We were the colour consultants and we let Mom know when each shade was just right. When it was time to decorate she’d pull out baggies of colourful sprinkles and pour them into shakers for us. Purple santas. Orange bells. Pink wreaths. These cookies were as Christmasy as they get. When we were done we put our favourites in a special tin to make sure no guests got to them before we did.
Since this was one of my favourite Christmas traditions growing up, I was excited to keep it going with my own children. Though we kept to the program in previous years, I made a few important changes this year. Not only did I use a whole wheat blend and cut out some of the sugar, I skipped the food colouring for the icing and experimented with natural colours.
