No, powdered sugar is best for the royal icing that goes on the cookie as decoration. For the actual cookie, use plain granulated sugar.
No, powdered sugar is a sweetening agent.
No they are not interchangable.
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No, sugar cookies and shortbread cookies are not the same. Shortbread cookies have more butter than sugar cookies and do not have eggs or a leavening agent (such as baking powder) in them.
It's really you and only your decision/choice..but I mean sugar cookies are a little messier so maybe butter cookies are more likely recommended
== == Not sure, but perhaps it is because sugar cookies have fewer ingredients, and the baking powder acts faster. More important than "Why?" is that you recognize the difference in baking times. Otherwise, you would end up with very hard sugar cookies.....or very soft hockey pucks.
The basic ingredients for baking cookies are flour, baking powder, butter, sugar, and vanilla extract. If you wan't more elaborate ingredients, go to http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Desserts/Cookies/main.aspx.
the difference between melting sugar in water or baking cookies with sugar in them is that if you bake cookies with sugar in them you making sugar cookies and melting sugar on water is mixing things together
Powdered sugar makes for a lighter texture and flavor when used in making cookies. However, more powdered sugar than granular sugar has to be used to obtain a sweeter taste. Also, powdered sugar is used on top of sugar cookies, sprinkled, to create a design/decoration, and to give the taste buds the initial enjoyment when one first bites into the cookie.
The difference is water is a ligid and cookies aern't. When you make cookies with sugar in them the sugar doesn'y dissolve like it dissolves in the cookies.
when where sugar cookies made
cookies
Powder that is made out of sugar
To an extent, sugar can make a cookie taste swetter and better. But too much sugar can make a cookie bad tasting very easily, too.