How to Make NaNa's Sand Tarts Cookie {Recipe} (2024)

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How many calories are in sand tarts? ›

Nutrition facts (each cookie): About 105 calories, 1 g protein, 8 g carbohydrate, 8 g total fat (4 g saturated), 1 g fiber, 15 mg cholesterol, 55 mg sodium.

Roll Cookies in Fancy Sugar

For this technique, you'll want to decorate your cookies before baking. We recommend using decorative sugar (also known as colored sanding sugar), Turbinado sugar (coarse golden sugar) or pearl sugar (coarse clear sugar). It all sounds super fancy but it's really very easy!

The easiest thing to do is to brush the tops of the cookies with a little bit of water or milk, to dampen the cookie dough. This will help the sprinkles stick without changing the appearance of the cookie.

The nice thing about sanding sugar is that it holds up well under heat, so you can use it before baking or after baking as a finishing touch. Decorate your cookies before putting them in the oven, and coat them heavily to give them a solid color.

Hard Candy, Sweet Tarts (1 piece) contains 1.9g total carbs, 1.9g net carbs, 0g fat, 0g protein, and 7 calories.

Other sizes: 1 slice - 149kcal, 1 serving - 149kcal, more... Other sizes: 1 serving - 224kcal, 100 g - 373kcal, more...

What is this? Wet a paper towel, wipe the bottom of a glass, dip in colored sugar, then press on cookie dough ball and flatten. Fun to do with kids! Bake until edges are golden brown.

Molasses is hygroscopic, meaning that it likes to hang on to moisture. As a result, baked goods made with brown sugar end up moister, heavier, and chewier, while those made with white sugar end up lighter and crisper (read up a bit more on the science in this article about the best chocolate chip cookies).

Not using enough sugar resulted in dry and bready cookies. They weren't chewy at all, and they puffed upward in the center. And though the flavor was good, I wasn't able to taste the vanilla as much as I could in the others. Both the texture and the mouthfeel reminded me of a not-so-hard scone.

Warm weather during the summer can bring on butter bleed, which happens when the butter from the cookie stains the royal icing and leaves it looking blotchy.

What does cornstarch do in sugar cookies? ›

1. Cookies. Cornstarch does kind of incredible things to cookies. I mean not only does it give them soft centers, prevents them from spreading, and makes them somewhat thick (in a good way), but it also contributes to the chewiness factor, which, in my opinion, is the most important cookie attribute.

Decorate After Baking

In order to add colored sugar to baked cookies, the sugar needs something to adhere to. Icing is the perfect choice. Bake and cool the cookies as directed by the recipe. Ice the very cool cookies with your favorite icing and top with your choice of colored sugar.

Once the icing is completely dry, use a brush to apply a thin layer of light corn syrup to each cookie. Place the image on top, lightly smoothing all over, including the edges. That's it.