Christmas Cut Out Cookies. Cut out with Christmas cookie cutters of your choice. Using a floured spatula, transfer cookies to greased baking sheets. Decorate cookies with frosting and colored sugars.
In a bowl, stir together flour and baking powder.
In another bowl, beat butter with sugar until fluffy and light.
In a bowl, cream butter and sugar.
You can cook Christmas Cut Out Cookies using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Christmas Cut Out Cookies
- Prepare 1 cup of butter.
- Prepare 2 of eggs, beaten.
- It's 1 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.
- It's 1/2 cup of nuts.
- Prepare 2 1/2 cup of sifted flour.
- It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
- It's 1 tsp of cinnamon.
- You need as needed of Icing and sprinkles,.
Combine flour, cinnamon, baking powder salt, nutmeg and cloves; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in flour, baking soda and cream of tartar. My family looks forward to making (and eating!) these cut-out sugar cookies every year. We only make them once a year for Christmas so they really are a special cookie for us.
Christmas Cut Out Cookies instructions
- Cream together butter, eggs, vanilla and sugar..
- Separately, mix together flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Slowly mix in the dry ingredients into wet. Mix in nuts..
- Roll out dough to about 1/2 a centimeter and cut out using a cookie cutter as desired. Feel free to re-roll out scraps to use all the dough..
- Bake for 10 minutes at 375 on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Let cookies cool before adding icing and sprinkles..
We usually take an entire day to make a bunch of cookies and then we all sit down at the table and put icing on them and sprinkles. Re-roll any scrap pieces of sugar cookie dough and cut out more cookies as needed. To store Christmas butter cookies, let the frosting and decorations set. Then, place cookies into a tin or plastic container with wax paper between each layer. Learn more tips and tricks for baking perfect holiday cookies from Betty's cookie cheat sheet.
