Cookie stamps are pretty much my new obsession this year, and when I saw these Halloween ones from Nordic Ware I knew I had to give them a go.
I wanted to make these something other than a classic shortbread or sugar cookie, and I found this brown butter cookie recipe, and I fully believe brown butter makes everything more delicious so I had to try these out.
The reviews on the King Arthur site were a bit mixed, so I was hesitant, but I pressed on. First up, it was strange to me to cream cold butter with sugar, but I made sure to cream the butter and sugar nice and long until it was fluffy and to my surprise it did end up working out.
A lot of the comments mentioned crumbly, unworkable dough. I used 1/4 cup less flour (figuring I could add more if needed) and that seemed to help quite a bit with the dough's workability.
The second thing I changed up was to stamp balls of dough down, rather then roll it out, stamp and cut out like the recipe suggests. I did this mostly because I find rolling dough to be very tedious (which is why you won't see me post many cutout cookie recipes) but also because if the dough did get too crumbly, I could smush it back together when making the balls. This does make the edges turn out a little more "rustic" but in my opinion is much easier. I found these stamps to press beautifully into the cookies, with the cat being my personal favorite for the depth of the impression.
The glaze and a bit of colored sugar was the final touch but I actually think the glaze hid the details of the lovely stamps a bit which was disappointing. I found the flavor and texture of these cookies to be wonderful, but the kids thought they were a bit dry. They had a nice crumbly texture to me and the brown butter shines without being overpowering.
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