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Ordinary to extraordinary: Sugar cookies

BY Alyssa Kleven  on December 7, 2012 @ 1:11 pm (Updated: 3:40 pm - 12/7/12 )

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According to Tom Douglas, it's easy for sugar cookie recipes to lack flavor. He and the Chef in the Hat have some suggestions for taking your cookies to the next level.
"Nothing is supposed to be white except whip cream." In the bakery that is -- that's how Seattle Kitchen host Thierry Rautureau feels about what you see, smell and taste in the bakery.

Both Rautureau and his co-host Tom Douglas worry that when folks bake their sugar cookies at home, they don't bake them long enough.

The cookies should be somewhere in the color range of light brown to brown. Douglas recommends using extra egg yolk in the recipe to get the color just right.

For flavor, Rautureau suggests brightening your pallet by adding a little zest of lemon or orange to the dough.

When your perfectly golden brown sugar is ready for a topping, Douglas raves about the royal icing recipe from his new Dahlia Bakery cookbook. "It takes (the cookies) to another level."

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Alyssa Kleven, MyNorthwest.com Editor
Alyssa Kleven is an editor and content producer at MyNorthwest.com. She enjoys doting over her adorable dachshund Winnie - named for Arcade Fire front-man Win Butler.
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  • PrinceIBU wrote...
    Hey, editor...
    December 22, 2012 8:29 am
    You meant "palate", not "pallet". And it's "whipped" cream, not "whip" cream. I'm surprised such errors would be missed by any foodie worth their salt.
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  • sweetpea123 wrote...
    IBU
    December 31, 2012 6:29 pm
    I was going to comment on the same thing. For a supposed "editor and content producer", I have to wonder if that is a made-up job, or she actually got a degree that would support she understands basic grammatical construction and context.
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