Recipe: Delicious Christmas Cut Out Cookies

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 another bowl, beat butter with sugar until fluffy and light. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Combine flour, cinnamon, baking powder salt, nutmeg and cloves; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. You can cook Christmas Cut Out Cookies using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Christmas Cut Out Cookies

1. You need 1 cup of butter.
2. It's 2 of eggs, beaten.
3. You need 1 cup of sugar.
4. It's 1 tsp of vanilla.
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of nuts.
6. You need 2 1/2 cup of sifted flour.
7. It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
8. It's 1 tsp of cinnamon.
9. It's as needed of Icing and sprinkles,.

Re-roll any scrap pieces of sugar cookie dough and cut out more cookies as needed. I have been trying to find the perfect cut out cookie recipe and this is the best so far. I wrapped the dough in plastic wrap and divided it in two as it made it easier to work with. My family looks forward to making (and eating!) these cut-out sugar cookies every year.

Christmas Cut Out Cookies step by step

1. Cream together butter, eggs, vanilla and sugar..
2. Separately, mix together flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Slowly mix in the dry ingredients into wet. Mix in nuts..
3. 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..
4. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Let cookies cool before adding icing and sprinkles..

We only make them once a year for Christmas so they really are a special cookie for us. 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. Cut out sugar cookies aren't just for Christmas. Yes, rolled cookies are fun at Christmas time with the stocking, tree and bell shapes, but they can be just as festive in the spring with flowers, sunshines and bird shapes. This is the best sugar cookie recipe we've found.