Christmas Sugar Cookies. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the sour cream, honey and vanilla. Combine the dry ingredients; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Christmas sugar cookie recipes from Martha Stewart, including cut-out sugar cookies, decorated sugar cookies, vanilla sugar cookies, lemon sugar cookies, lime sugar cookies, drop sugar cookies, easy sugar cookies, and more. It sets up nicely and is ideal for decorating, tinting well and spreading easily.
The process of making sugar cookie cutouts is as essential to the holidays as opening gifts and singing Christmas songs, and if you can clear some time out on your schedule, it's a relaxing activity, too.
In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth.
Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt.
You can have Christmas Sugar Cookies using 7 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Christmas Sugar Cookies
- It's 250 grams of plain flour.
- It's 150-170 grams of softened unsalted butter.
- It's 200 grams of fine sugar.
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of vanilla essence.
- It's 1 pinch of salt.
- You need 1/2 tablespoon of baking powder.
- It's Handful of Choco chips(Optional).
Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight). Mom baked countless Christmas cookies, but of all the cookies, we loved the sugar cookies the best! Sugar cookie recipes are popular all over the world with their simple ingredients and sweet buttery taste. This Christmas sugar cookies recipe has a fantastic icing that compliments it beautifully.
Christmas Sugar Cookies instructions
- Add the salt, flour and baking powder in a bowl and mix well.
- Combine butter, vanilla and sugar in another bowl and whisk until soft peaks appear.
- Now add the flour gradually the butter and keep folding in.
- Once done, knead softly and add the Choco chips and mix.
- Tuck the dough into a ball and refrigerate covered for one hour.
- Post refrigeration,preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius.
- Take the cookie dough out of the fridge and lay it on a greased baking sheet.
- Place another sheet on top and flatten gently.
- Start to roll and the cut desired shaped cookies using cutters.
- Place them on the baking tray and bake for 10-12 minutes or until done.
- Post cooling completely, prepare your own desired colourful icing or with the help of ready to use ones, decorate your cookies.
- Let the icing rest for an hour to set.
- Store airtight until consumed. Merry Christmas.
- Watch full recipe video at: https://youtu.be/_TaGDuGxKx4.
The kiddos will love decorating them! These sugar cookie recipes take arguably the most boring cookie and turn it into the most festive dessert on the block. For even more Christmas cookie inspiration , try these snowball cookies. The recipe for the sugar cookies originally came from Mary Margaret McBride's Cook Book, and they are the cookies I make when I cut out the Christmas shapes and frost for Christmas cookies and they are hands down my family's favorites. When my step daughter saw these at my place of work she was mad because I was giving away some of HER cookies!