Christmas Sugar Cookies
Dec 2nd, 2007 by admin
Cookie cutters and I have never gotten along. Ever. Last year, I attempted this recipe, only to end up chunking the dough and moving back to my beloved cupcakes. Heck, I’m good with a drop cookie, a bar, a brownie, but these cut out cookies really have my number.
But, I’m amazingly hard headed and stubborn and today I decided that I needed to try to tackle these cookies again. I learned a lot though trial and error and by the last batch, I think they were starting to look like real cookies!
Lesson One: Chill the dough. It makes it way easier to cut and place the cookies.
Lesson Two: Put the sprinkles on before removing the cut out.
Lesson Three: Use a pastry scraper to transfer cookies.
Lesson Four: Don’t over cook. 3 minutes means 3 minutes!
Lesson Five: Be patient!
I’m super happy that I finally got this one under my belt. I used a recipe found in my favorite cookie cookbook, The Cookie Bible. What I <3 about this cookbook is that it’s big and loaded with lots of recipes and each recipe has a picture of the cookie. It makes it easy to browse by type and then just pick the cookie that matches what you had in mind.
Keesha oversees recruiting and training programs for GoDaddy.com. She is responsible for building programs that attract and retain amazing employees. She attended Blinn College and Texas A&M University.
Keesha loves food and photography and is passionate about community volunteering. She sits on the board of directors for the Junior League of Phoenix and in her free time you will find her baking and working on her empire Cupcake Cabana. Her most private cupcake confession? She doesn't like frosting!
Keesh:
need your address asap…so that i can send you my xmas cd tomorrow!
hope you had a great thanksgiving…now on to xmas!
love you, CQ
those look great! i have been tempted to pick that book up to see if i can veganize. the only problem is most of those use so much butter, it’s hard to use vegan margarine to replace it =/
love the little mini texas’s!!! took me a second to see what they were ;D