Christmas Cookies
Do you remember frosting and sprinkling with colored sugar and adding other things to your Christmas cookies? In case you’ve forgotten, here’s a recipe I found.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS
For the Cookies:
1 cup butter (no substitutes), softened |
1 cup sugar |
2 eggs |
1/4 cup half-and-half cream |
3 cups all-purpose flour |
2 teaspoons baking powder |
1 teaspoon baking soda |
1/2 teaspoon salt |
For the Frosting: |
1/2 cup butter, softened |
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2 to 4 tablespoons half-and-half cream |
Food coloring and colored sugar, optional |
DIRECTIONS
FOR THE COOKIES:
In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in cream. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours or until easy to handle.
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On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with 2 1/2-in. cookie cutters dipped in flour. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 325 degrees F for 6-8 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
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FOR THE FROSTING:
In a mixing bowl, cream butter, sugar, vanilla and enough cream to achieve desired frosting consistency. Add food coloring if desired. Frost cookies. Sprinkle with colored sugar if desired. There are also other cookie decorations you can add. Look around in the aisle in your grocery store in the same place that you will find sugar sprinkles.
Get a bunch of kids together and have a fun "cookie day." I have good memories of such times with my own mother.
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