The new King Arthur Flour Catalog came early last week and when I saw these cookies:

I knew that I had to make them. Something about the snowflakes and the white on white icing just called out to me. And coincidently enough, King Arthur Flour sent me an email that they were having a special two-day free shipping promotion. So of course I ordered the tools: cookie cutters, meringue powder, icing spreader, and some other stuff not for cookies.



I decided on KAF's Holiday Butter Cookie recipe. And I had even purchased the Fiori di Sicilia. The cookie dough was quick and easy to put together. So quick and easy that I forgot to get pictures until they were in the oven:






Here are some shots of the baked snowflakes:



This batch was rolled a little too thin.



This batch was just right!



After the cookies had completely cooled (didn't take more than 45 minutes), I whipped up the icing. The meringue powder made it very easy to make some royal icing. Then I spread and spread and spread that icing on top of the cookies. Here are a few:






I allowed the cookies to rest for several hours. (Ok, fine. I couldn't stop poking them to see if they were dry for phase 2 of decorating, so a bunch of them had smudge prints.) Then I set out having fun decorating. Which I apparently suck at:




Believe me, the picture is making them look better than they were. After the painstaking work of those few cookies, I gave up and did a cheat.



I put the cookies on a cooling rack and just drizzled the icing over the top. These ones actually looked nice. I think next time a little food coloring for the drizzle would be very pretty.




With these I got really lazy because my back was starting to hurt, I squeezed a big plop of icing in the center of the little cookies and then sprinkled with tons of sparkling sugar.



The most important part was that while they don't look as pretty as the ones that inspired them, they sure do taste good. In fact, Kevin's already requested more of them!!