Holiday Cookie Recipes
The traditional sugar cookie recipe has not changed much over the years and is popular both for its taste and simplicity of the recipe, but also because cutting out and decorating sugar cookies is a great way to involve the kids for some fun holiday family fun.
We search the internet and found some of the traditional recipes for sugar cookies and listed some below:
BASIC COOKIE DOUGH (from Dash at mlive.com)
Ingredients:
2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
½ tsp baking soda
¾ tsp salt
Instructions:
1. In large bowl, beat butter with electric mixer for 30 seconds. Add sugar and beat until smooth. Beat in the eggs and vanilla extract.
2. Add flour, baking soda and salt to butter mixture and beat on medium until smooth. If the dough is very sticky, beat in a little more flour.
3. Form dough into 2 balls, wrap each in plastic and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
4. Choose to make one of these 9 treats:
•Christmas Tree Cookies
•Candy Cane Cookies
•Snow People Cookies
•Caramel Nut Drops
•Stained Glass Window Cookies
•Snickerdoodles
•Raspberry Jam Thumbprints
•Christmas Star Cookies
•Chocolate Cherry Chippers
Makes 3 dozen cookies. Serving size: 1 undecorated cookie. Nutrition information per serving: 110 cal, 14g carbs, 1g protein, 3.5g fat, 20mg chol, 70mg sodium, 0g fiber.
Use this Basic Decorating Icing to add faces, accents, and color to ordinary cut-out cookies. Add food coloring and flavoring if desired.
BASIC DECORATING ICING
Ingredients:
1 (16-oz) box confectioners’ sugar
3 Tbsp meringue powder
1/3 cup warm water
Instructions:
1. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer set on medium speed, beat all ingredients together for about 5 minutes.
2. If mixture seems too thick to spread, thin with a teaspoon or two of warm water.
Makes about 2 cups. Serving size: 1 tablespoon. Nutrition information per serving: 50 cal, 13g carbs, 0g protein, 0g fat, 0mg chol, 0mg sodium, 0g fiber
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