#royal icing recipe

JACKAL TREATS

Give your sandy pup some love with these jackal treats! I hope 6-foot high dogs made of ancient stone and shifting sands like cinnamon.

As always, recipe is below the cut. Additionally, these are not treats meant for real dogs! They are only people-safe. 

-MJ & K

Cookie:

• 2 cups flour
  
• ½ tsp salt
  
• 2 tsp baking powder
  
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  
• ½ tsp allspice
  
• 2 tsp ginger
  
• ¼ tsp ground cloves
  
• 6 oz. butter, softened to room temperature
  
• ½ cup molasses
  
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
  
• 1 egg
  
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
  
• Grated zest of 1 whole lemon
  

Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and dry spices. Set aside.

In a mixed bowl beat together the butter, molasses, and brown sugar until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg, vanilla extract, and lemon zest and beat for another 3 minutes until fluffy again.

Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix on low until the flour is just incorporated. Do not overmix. Cover the dough in plastic wrap and chill for at least an hour.

Heat your oven to 350°F.

When the dough is chilled you can use it two ways – firstly you can turn it out onto a floured surface and roll to ¼ inch thickness. Stamp out your design and transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. You can also form the dough into 1-tablespoon balls and press them to ¼ inch thickness on a cookie sheet with the bottom of a greased drinking glass.

Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes.

Glaze:

• 4 cups powdered sugar
  
• 2 egg whites from a pasteurized egg
  
• 1 tsp white rum
  
• 1 tsp lemon juice
  
• 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
  
• ¼ tsp cream of tartar
  

Combine all ingredients in an electric mixer with a paddle attachment and beat until smooth. Add a small amount of this icing to a piping bag with a #3 (very small) tip and pipe your border wall onto the cookies. Transfer and extra icing back to the mixer and add about 2-3 tablespoons of cream to the icing to give it a thinner consistency. Either pipe or spoon this icing into your designs on your cookies. Allow to set.