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My Favorite Christmas Cookie Recipe
The very best Holiday sugar cookies you will ever make — and easy, too! One of my favorite childhood memories was making batch after batch of this family recipe in the days leading up to Christmas, and it makes me so happy to share this tradition with my kids now!!
I love seeing so many of you making these at home after I shared in my stories, and thought it would be good to put all my tips and tricks in one place for you to enjoy... worth making tonight! Merry merry!
Christmas Cookie Recipe
Serving Size: Makes about 60 cookies
Ingredients:
2 ½ cups sifted flour
½ teaspoon kosher salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup + 1 tbsp sugar
1 large egg, room temperature
2 tbsp orange juice
1 tsp vanilla
Instructions:
•Combine flour, salt and baking powder in a medium bowl and whisk to combine. Use an electric mixer to cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy (3 minutes), then beat in egg for fifteen seconds and then vanilla and orange juice another 15 seconds. Gradually stir in flour mix by hand until well blended.
•If you use cookie cutters, wrap dough in parchment paper and allow to chill in freezer 1 hour before using so butter hardens a bit again. You can’t freeze cookie dough wrapped in parchment paper and then in a sealed plastic bag up to 3 months if you want to get a head start! If you use a cookie press, do not chill dough.
•After an hour, flour rolling pin, hands and work surface generously and work dough just to pliability. Roll dough to 1/4” (thinner, crispier cookies) to 1/2” thickness (puffier cookies) and cut your favorite shapes! Place in a prepared baking sheet and decorate with sugar crystals if using.
•Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Watch and remove when cookies are lightly golden brown around edges. Yum!!
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