Ever since my mom bought me a fun set of modular mix and match to design your own snowflake cookie cutters, I have had great fun making these Sugared Snowflakes at Christmas time, even though the intricate piping can take quite a while. This is the first time I have made them in the summer, but showing the new Disney classic Frozen for Cinema Brittahytta was the perfect chance! They worked great as garnishes for our s’mores, as well as to munch on their own!
This is my trusty family sugar cookie recipe that doesn’t spread while baking so the intricate shapes stay the way you cut them. I roll out the dough onto a silicone baking sheet, then cut the snowflake shapes with baking space between them, then pull away the extra dough. This way you never have to move the delicate snowflake shapes until after they are baked. Parchment paper also works if you haven’t invested in silicone baking sheets.
For Frozen, I used vegan egg replacer and Nucoa non-dairy margarine so the cookies would be vegan, but the royal icing was from real eggs. I figured if anyone had a problem with the eggs, there wasn’t so much frosting so it could be picked off the cookie. I did try using the vegan egg replacer to make vegan royal icing one Christmas, but it stayed very thin, so it didn’t work very well for intricate piping, and it was a bit watery-looking, not the nice bright white of traditional royal icing. You can see the difference in this photo here.
For Christmas, I like the pure white crystal snow and ice look. You can use normal granulated sugar, but it is so fine it doesn’t show much texture. I prefer using the chunky decorating sugar completely over the royal icing so it looks more icy. One year I had leftover homemade hard candy 
glass, so I crushed that myself for super big shards of ice on my snowflake cookies! Nice crunchy candy crystals on the crispy cookies!
For my Frozen movie night I wanted the look to be not Christmasy at all, so I got out my purple, green and blue decorating sugars so the snowflakes would be Elsa colors, much more fitting for a summer party. I only used a light 
dusting of the colors or they didn’t look as delicate anymore. Since I was mixing the colors anyway, I picked up the extra from the cookie sheet and kept sprinkling on the next cookies. I love how these look, especially with the snowflake lights around the tier tray!
For the Frozen Sing Along I didn’t make the giant batch I usually make for multiple Christmas parties as well as gifts, so I only made three snowflake styles, and 
the most were the smallest size, since those work as a garnish on a glass rim or snow cone cup, and they were even stacked on top of each “Love is an Open S’more.” 
Here is my Foolproof Sugar Cookie recipe I use for the Sugared Snowflakes, featured for years from the very beginning on my Halloween Recipes page, and included in my first book, Eerie Elegance. As long as I use non-dairy margarine and vegan egg replacer, I never need to add milk or water, but that could also depend on your local weather or how much moisture you get from your eggs. I make my dough in my stand mixer, the full batch just fits the large glass bowl, then I put it into two quart-size airtight plastic containers to chill in the fridge until I bake the cookies. The unbaked dough can last in the fridge for several weeks, through the entire Christmas season to keep baking more cookies whenever you need to!
Foolproof Sugar Cookies
(featured inside the book Eerie Elegance)
2 cups margarine or butter
2 1/4 cups sugar
3 eggs (or vegan egg replacer)
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
6 cups flour
3/4 tsp salt
4 Tbsp milk (can use water – only if moisture is needed)
Divide dough in half. Only add milk or water if the dough is too dry to hold together. Chill at least 1 hour. Roll out half of dough 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick. Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 375F/190C for 12 minutes. These can be frosted. Makes about 5-6 dozen standard-sized cookie cutter shapes.
You can keep reading for more photo inspiration for different snowflake shapes and various patterns to ice them. Hope you enjoy making your own Frozen Fractals Sugared Snowflakes!
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