Nothing marks the beginning of the holiday season quite like baking and decorating Christmas cookies. This is a super-easy recipe (also from my Mom) - after the jump...
Christmas Sugar Cookies
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 3 hours [includes chilling and frosting time]
0.75 cups margarine
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour, plus extra for rolling
1 tsp baking powder
1.5 tsp salt
(1) Beat margarine and sugar until creamy
(2) Add eggs and vanilla, mix until smooth
(3) In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, and salt
(4) Slowly mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients until combined
(5) Refrigerate for at least 1 hour
(6) Preheat oven to 350 degrees
(7) On a floured surface, roll dough out to about 0.25 inches thick
(8) Using lightly floured cookie cutters, cut out into desired shapes
(9) Place cookies on parchment-paper-lined cookie sheets
(10) Bake 10-12 minutes, until edges just begin to brown
(11) Using food coloring, dye vanilla frosting in red, green, blue, yellow, purple, orange, and black (keep one batch white)
(12) Allow cookies to cool completely and decorate as desired
Notes: Adding too much flour to the work surface, rolling pin, and cookie cutters, along with over-working the chilled dough will develop too much gluten and make the cookies tough, so try to minimize both! For the frosting, we just used store-bought, but you can make your own if you're feeling ambitious. Use either pastry bags or small Ziploc bags with one corner cut off to decorate.
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