![]() ![]() Use a rolling pin with guides to help roll out your dough to a perfectly even thickness (this rolling pin is my favorite). Follow our guide and tips below to make these cookies perfectly every time! How to Roll Our Your Cookie Dough Evenly In my opinion, they are the most traditional Christmas cookies and most fun to decorate. Rolled cookies are the easiest to decorate because they stay nice and flat, even after baking. Shaped sugar cookies (like the recipe below) and gingerbread cookies are an example of rolled Christmas cookies. Rolled cookies are cookies that are made by rolling out a stiff dough and then using cookie cutters to cut various shapes. Christmas Sprinkles – get creative and have fun with any kind of sprinkles you can find!.Toothpicks – These are to help you fill in the tiny little gaps and smooth over the icing.Squeeze bottles – these can be found on Amazon, at Walmart or any craft store for about $1 a piece.Decorating tips – I used a Wilton #3 round piping tip for the outlines- you can get them on Amazon (here) for about $1 or any craft store.Supplies Needed to Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies Vanilla extract (check out our tutorial on how to make your own vanilla extract).Butter – Keep the butter COLD for this recipe, the cookies will come out much better using cold butter.Salt – just a pinch to even out the sweetness.All-purpose flour – Chef’s flour and baking flour can also be used.Give these traditional Christmas sugar cookies a try! There’s no need to buy them from the store save lots of money and make them yourself! It’s such a fun way to spend a cold, winter afternoon with the littles (or not-so-littles). It just doesn’t seem like Christmas until we’ve pulled out the cookie cutters and created Christmas delights with our kids. The BEST Christmas Cookies EVER (and How to Decorate Them) Recipeīaking a big batch of traditional Christmas cookies is one of our favorite family holiday traditions.How to Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies.How to Get Neat Edges on Christmas Sugar Cookies.How to Roll Our Your Cookie Dough Evenly.Supplies Needed to Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies.Hope everyone loves this recipe as much as I do. Good flavor & great for decorating, but I like a chewier/softer cookie. If I baked until all edges were golden brown, the cookies came out pretty dry. I will add, knowing that everyone’s oven is different-mine is especially old & and uneven cooker- I had to pull my cookies out at 6-7 They almost looked uncooked. The cookie dough was so easy to work with. Next time I will do 1/2 tsp vanilla + 1 1/2tsp almond extract as I didn’t really taste the almond flavor. Also, I did 1 tsp almond extract + 1 tsp vanilla. (A bit weird becuz I didn’t have to add extra for the mini-muffin cookies.). ( I had to use an extra TB of butter becuz dough was crumbly. They were absolute perfect! Also made the recipe for sugar cookies to decorate. No Chilling and they’re still perfect! I used these as cookie crusts in my mini muffin pans. Nibble away, no one will miss one or two or five!! □ – Nagi x Make these for Santa, your family, or (if you’re really feeling the holiday spirit) maybe even to gift to someone.Īnd don’t worry. But if you are inclined to ice them, pop over to my Icing for Christmas Cookies (PS I also share my quick ‘n easy way to ice them!)Ī sight that will catapult anyone into serious Christmas spirit!! Ain’t nobody got time for chilling during Christmas madness – right?!īonus: the dough is easy to handle and can be scrunched up and rolled up again over and over until you’ve used up every scrap.īecause these are sweet vanilla biscuits, they are flavoured enough and sweet enough to serve plain. Unlike most cookie doughs suitable for cutting out shape, there’s no chill time required for this recipe. The nice thing about these Christmas Cookies is that they’re made with pantry staples – so there’s no need to add to your ever growing Christmas grocery shopping list!!! How to make Christmas Cookies This particular biscuit recipe is made for cutting out shapes – in this case, Christmas shapes. Most cookies spread snd puff up so they bear little resemblance to the shape you expected!īut these hold their shape perfectly – as you can see by the sharp ridges and corners in the photo below. They are as classic as vanilla biscuits can be. They taste like shortbread cookies, but not quite as buttery or crumbly. What I call “Christmas Cookies” are simply vanilla biscuits cut out in Christmas shapes and iced with colourful festive frosting. Ice them my EASY way, dip in chocolate, dust with icing sugar or serve them plain! Christmas Cookies Take a break from the Christmas madness to make Christmas Cookies! These sugar cookies are classic vanilla biscuits that are made for cutting out shapes because they hold their shape perfectly when baked. ![]()
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