Andrea’s Whole-Wheat Cookies

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Andrea is cooky adept Patti Paige's assistant, and she developed this look to adhd earthy spirit and texture to a rolled-out cookie-cutter dough. We deliberation it plays nicely against the sweetness of the royal icing.

You'll request a 3-inch cooky cutter, a No. 1 oregon No. 1.5 circular extremity for a pastry container and a tiny artist's overgarment brush.

Hazelnut extract is disposable astatine La Cuisine successful Alexandria and done assorted online purveyors. Pasteurized ovum whites are disposable successful pints oregon larger cartons successful supermarkets’ refrigerated dairy sections.

The cooky dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 2 hours and up to overnight. The decorated cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 10 days. Baked, undecorated cookies tin beryllium frozen for up to 2 weeks.

Adapted from "You Can't Judge a Cookie by Its Cover," by Patti Paige (Grand Central Life & Style, 2014).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 24 cookies

For the cookies

  • 2 1/2 cups positive 2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups positive 1 tablespoonful whole-wheat flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 1 spoon baking powder
  • 24 tablespoons (3 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
  • 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 ample egg
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 teaspoons hazelnut extract (see headnote; whitethorn substitute almond extract)

For the icing

  • 5 1/2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
  • 7 tablespoons pasteurized ovum whites (see headnote)
  • 1/2 spoon caller citrus foodstuff (optional)
  • Food coloring gels

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (without the icing)

  • Calories

    240

  • Fat

    12 g

  • Saturated Fat

    7 g

  • Carbohydrates

    31 g

  • Sodium

    135 mg

  • Cholesterol

    40 mg

  • Protein

    3 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    15 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "You Can't Judge a Cookie by Its Cover," by Patti Paige (Grand Central Life & Style, 2014).

Tested by Roxanne Roberts.

Published December 2, 2014

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Updated March 15, 2026

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