Let's Make Christmas Cookies!
Sugar Cookies
Cream: 2 1/2 cubes butter
2 cups sugar
Add: 2 eggs
Sift: 5 cups flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
Add flour to sugar mixture, adding 1/2 cup milk as you stir.
Chill for approximately one hour
Roll & Cut
Bake @ 375 degrees, 8-10 minutes
Let cool and have fun DECORATING!!
{this recipe makes a lot of cookies...cut in half for a reasonable number}
Roll
Cut
Bake
We mixed up a bright selection of frosting...
...and made certain there was a fun collection of sprinkles.
Let the decorating begin!
My favorite.
A rather unorthodox & creative interpretation of a gingerbread man...uh, lady.
Hey, no snacking on the job!
Dig in, everyone gets a sample!
What festivities do you have in store for the week?
34 comments:
Thanks for the recipe, one quest though...does 2 1/2 cubes of butter mean 2 1/2 sticks? I am a clueless baker! :)
wow, those are pretty amazing! This week we are inviting the entire first grade class over to decorate Christmas cookies (hope they turn out half as good as yours!), then to the train museum, gingerbread house decorating, kids want to see Yogi Bear at the movies...that should keep us busy! Merry Christmas!
All of those decorated cookies are quite impressive. Making my grocery list now and baking is in my near future. Only 2 more days of school. Yippee!
-Rene
I have to do some baking later in the week. But that's a dangerous task for me. I tend to eat the cookie dough and then the cookies. I'm trying to lose 5 pounds so maybe some duct tape over my mouth while I'm baking would help.
These are awesome! It makes me really excited to decorate my sugar cookies today!!
Dang...designer Christmas cookies. So pretty! Wish I had helpers like that....
love 'em! and yes, i love the gingerbread lady..she could definitely be kim from real housewives of atlanta...
I so cheated this year and bought ready made cookies. You should see my kids' icing decor. Not quite as artistic as yours :) More like big red and green blobs but they were proud. . .
Oh my boys would LOVE doing this! Thanks for the recipe! And as always, Isabella and Max are so creative!
I have some tidying up to do now that everything is painted. I decided to scratch the party and host Christmas Dinner at my house...What was I thinking?!?!
Hi Jamie, yes 2 1/2 sticks! And Kristin, that is a hilarious comment.
Janell
Those cookies are adorable! :)
Those are little works of art! They look more festive and fun then the cookies I saw at the bakery the other day. What a fun day with the kids you had! I'm hoping to start my holiday baking tomorrow.
Janell, recently found your blog and I LOVE it! I also did a lot of baking this weekend, we made 21 different kinds, crazy family tradition too! Happy Holidays!
I baked this weekend, but no frosted sugar cookies for me. Yours look great, though, and if I had two little punkins at my house to make them with I'm pretty sure I'd be making them too! :-) Love all the colors and creativity involved...
Thanks Pk, grandparents were also involved, so it was a fun event and didn't take all day...:)
Janell
one of my favorite traditions is cooking decorating. That gingerbread woman has me cracking up, perfection!
Those are pretty awesome cookies. I'll be baking later this week. Hope mine come out even half as cute.
Cookie decorating is one tradition that no one ever seems to get tired of. My daughter and her friends asked me to bake sugar cookies for them to decorate last weekend-and she just turned 16.
Loved the gingerbread lady-is that a tube top she's wearing?!
Wow! These are so festive and fantastic!
What great results - This looks like great fun. I could hardly stop laughing on the comment regarding the gingerbread lady being Kim from real housewives of atlanta.
That is too funny ;-)
Very Nice!
Oh how I loved decorating Xmas cookies -- my aunt always made the best sugar cookies and my cousins and I would decorate them Xmas Eve. I suppose I'll be reviving the tradition in the next few years with the baby!
I just found your blog and website. You win my favorite cookie of the season with the unorthodox lady! Great fun. Did you see the Christoph Niemann post in the Times? You would enjoy it. Come visit us!
Best,
Liz
The husband's been saying for two weeks now that he's going to bake cookies. Hopefully baking will actually commence sometime this week. Love the artistic license taken with the gingerbread (wo)man!
So fun! those are darling. We get together with neighbors to make ours. My daughter was so patient and so detailed. My two year old had a mouthful of cookie every time I looked over. Priceless.
They look yummy :) But I am surprised your daughter's bracelets didn't get mixed into the dough ;)
We do the same thing with my sis-n-law and family on Christmas Eve. One year the men got involved too and it turned into some sort of Iron Chef competition: Operation Christmas Cookie. My little nephew always picks the winner.
ohmygosh -- do you know that I actually bought a kit from Michaels today...premade gingerbread cookies and all the 'fixins' to decorate them!!! terrible, I know. But I'm running out of time to do all the stuffs! Yours look so delicious!
I'm just now getting ready to crawl into bed after making cookie dough all night for a holiday cookie decorating playdate tomorrow for 13 little 4 year old girls! It should be quite sweet! I'm doing a post about it tomorrow. Your creations are fabulous!!!
looks like so much fun! i'm in the mood to make gingerbread cookies ASAP!
Now those are some happy looking cookies! And there are so many of them! (I usually burn half the batch).
I am taking a break from blog land. I just want to spend some quality time with my family.
Thank you for your friendship and your support, Janell. You are a gem in blogland.
Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family.
oxox Mon
P.S I took 3 pics for you. Will send them tomorrow.
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this looks like so much fun! i am still terrified of the mess involved in making sugar cookies with my kids..isn't that terrible? i always try to talk them into some other kind of cookie--anything that does not require rolling and cutting out the dough.
oh, and that "ginger-man/woman" was hilarious. i loved the bling on her/it's pants. very creative!
:)
Autumn, I used to feel exactly the same. Is it possible I've chilled just a little? It also helps when there is a lot of help and my kids are getting older...but right afterwards I was there vacuuming up the sprinkles before they could travel too far through the house!
Janell
I'm loving the cookies, great creativity. :) Also, I love that Isabella has all those silly bands on her wrist...very cute.
Sugar cookies are my favorite for the holidays, too! My grandma and I bake them each year together-- it's our little tradition (: We only use sprinkles though, I love the frosting idea! Yours turned out so cute. And even better to eat, I can imagine!
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