Name: Pink Grapefruit Sugar Cookies
Yield: Makes about 24
Ingredients: 2¾ cups (344 g) all-purpose flour; ¼ cup (30 g) cornstarch; ¾ tsp. baking powder; ¾ tsp. baking soda; ½ tsp. Diamond Crystal or ¼ tsp. Morton kosher salt; 2 tsp. finely grated pink grapefruit zest; 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar; ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature; 1 large egg; ⅓ cup sour cream, room temperature; 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract; 4 cups (440 g) powdered sugar, sifted; ½ cup heavy cream; ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter,room temperature; 1 tsp. finely grated pink grapefruit zest; 1 tsp. vanilla extract; ½ tsp. Diamond Crystal or ¼ tsp. Morton kosher salt; Red (or any color) gel food coloring and sprinkles (for decorating)

Photograph by Emma Fishman. Food styling by Pearl Jones.

Soft grocery-store-style cookies get a makeover in food stylist and recipe developer Jesse Szewczyk’s book Cookies: The New Classics. “These sugar cookies are everything you love about the nostalgic lunchbox treat,” he writes, but “reimagined with the unexpected addition of pink grapefruit zest.” Citrus keeps the cookies zippy and offsets the sweetness of the fluffy frosting. Use a little gel food coloring (or a lot!) in the frosting to customize your shade.

What you’ll need

Electric Mixer
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Medium #40 Cookie Scoop
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Microplane Grater
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Rimmed Baking Sheet
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Wire Cooling Rack
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