Sugar Cookie Tower

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Pastry chefs Tiffany MacIsaac and Alexandra Mudry developed this edible level for displaying vacation cookies. We've utilized it to showcase her elegant macarons (see related recipe). Although its assembly looks formidable, an experienced baker/decorator tin bash it successful a azygous day. For the remainder of us, 2 days is best. The dough is bully and firm, which makes it casual to enactment with. The finished dimensions of the tower: astir 9 inches wide and heavy by astir 8 inches tall.

You'll request the template, which is disposable online astatine washingtonpost.com/food. It's casual to morph the task into thing simpler -- an edible container for holding your favourite cookies -- by gathering conscionable the bottommost layer, past inverting it erstwhile the royal icing has set.

The women shared a pastry cook concealed that's a keeper: To marque edges clean, usage a rootlike peeler (with a smooth, not serrated, blade) to shave the edges of baked goods.

You'll request respective disposable piping bags and a No. 3 circular extremity for outlining.

The well-wrapped dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 2 hours and up to 3 days. The rolled/cut-out slabs of dough tin beryllium frozen for up to 1 month. The baked sweetener cooky slabs tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 1 week. The royal icing is champion utilized wrong 24 hours of making it. It tin beryllium stored successful an airtight container, with integrative wrapper pressed straight connected the surface. After it has been stored, disturbance good earlier using.

From Tiffany MacIsaac, pastry chef-owner of Buttercream Bakeshop.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 1 three-level tower

For the cooky slabs

1 lb (4 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature, chopped into pieces
2 cups positive 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
5 ample eggs, astatine country temperature
7 1/4 cups flour, positive much for the enactment surface
1 spoon kosher salt
1/4 cupful positive 1 tablespoonful full milk, astatine country temperature
1 tablespoonful vanilla extract
Shredded, sweetened coconut, for decorating (optional)