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These are my best and straightforward recipe for cut-out Christmas sugar cookies! This sugar cookies can also be referred to as Christmas cookies, cut-out cookies or Christmas tree cookies. These are an easy sugar cookie dough which is simple to roll and holds it shape when cut into different shapes and baked. Decorate it with vibrant icing and have a fun holiday cookie decoration along with your kids. On this detailed recipe post I actually have sugar cookies made with eggs and eggless, steps to make icing and suggestions for decorating cookies. In case you will not be into glazed cookies, then try my chewy sugar cookies which is great for santa.

Christmas Sugar Cookies

A lot of you may have been asking me to share sugar cookies, Christmas cut-out cookies recipe. Finally i made each the eggless and with egg version for this Christmas. Each of them turned out so good. These cookies make an amazing holiday treat in addition to an amazing Christmas present. You possibly can put them in small plastic cover, tie them with a ribbon and you might be good to go.

It’s such a cute cookie to try but taste so delicious and pretty easy to make as well. The decorations on these cookies totally relies on your imagination and creativity. it’s an amazing cookie to try along with your lil one, because they may find it irresistible obviously.

About Christmas Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookies are also referred to as Christmas cut-out cookies. The sugar cookie dough is produced from butter, sugar, eggs, plain flour with a little bit of baking powder and salt. The cookie dough is chilled in fridge and rolled into sheet like. Different shapes of cookie cutter is used to chop out cute Christmas cookies.

These sugar cookies are baked, left to chill and decorated with multi colored royal icing and decorated with kids and family during holidays.

These cookies are also called as ornament cookies. Before baking, make small holes on top of the cookies using a metal straw. Once baked, you possibly can pass a skinny string into the opening and you possibly can hang it in your Christmas Tree.

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Sugar Cookies Ingredients

Unsalted Butter – The ingredients utilized in this sugar cookies recipes are very minimal. So use top quality ingredients for making the cookie dough. Prime quality butter imparts more buttery flavour to the cookies.

Sugar – I wish to use caster sugar or super effective sugar for making the cookie dough. I actually have used confectioners sugar on this recipe as well.

Vanilla Extract – use top quality pure vanilla extract for the cookie dough.

Eggs – eggs helps with the binding of the cookie dough.

All Purpose Flour – In case you want you possibly can add whole wheat flour as an alternative of plain flour.

Baking Powder – this acts as raising agent and adds somewhat lift to the cookies.

Salt – pinch of salt in your baked goods all the time balance the taste.

Sugar Cookies in 3 Easy Steps

Making Sugar Cookie Dough – Take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whip till creamy. Now add in a single egg at a time and whip till fluffy. Add in flour, baking powder and salt and whip again till it’s mixed right into a soft dough. Now wrap this in plastic and chill this for couple of hours. 

Rolling & Baking Cookies – Now preheat oven to 180 degree C. Once the dough is chilled. Cut it in half. Roll the dough into 1 inch thickness and use a cookie cutter to chop out shapes. Arrange it in a parchment lined baking tray. Bake for 12 to fifteen mins. In case your cookies are thicker it might take upto 15 mins.

Decorating Cookies – Now remove it from oven and funky it down completely. Now decorate it as you want and let it set for an hour or so and store this in an air tight container.

Expert Suggestions

• Be certain the cookie dough is cold before rolling for straightforward rolling and cutting cookies.
• Cookie dough may be rolled between two sheets of parchment paper or plastic wrap for straightforward rolling. 
• You need to use any shaped cookie cutters for cutting shapes.
• The cookie dough may be placed in fridge upto 5 days or in freezer upto a month. x

Learn how to Make Sugar Cookies (Step-wise Pictures)

Sugar Cookie Dough

1)Take butter, sugar in a mixing bowl. I used soft unsalted butter and caster sugar. In case you are using salted butter you may have to skip adding salt.

Pro-tip: In case you haven’t got caster or super effective sugar, you possibly can take granulated sugar in a blender and powder till effective.

2)Add in vanilla extract and use an electrical beater to whip this till creamy and lightweight. It is going to take around 3 to 4 minutes.

3)Now the butter and sugar looks creamy.

4)Now we’re going to add eggs. For this recipe, you would like 2 eggs. Add one egg at a time and mix till creamy.

5)Add within the second egg and whip till creamy.

6)Add in plain flour, baking powder and salt.

7)Mix the flour into the butter mixture. Shape it right into a soft dough. You need to use a spatula, picket spoon or your hands to knead the dough.

Chilling the dough

8)Place the cookie dough over a sheet of plastic wrap. Cover it completely with the plastic wrap.

9)Place the cookie dough in fridge and let it rest for half-hour.

Rolling Cookie Dough

11)Place the chilled cookie dough on a sheet of plastic wrap. Dust with plain flour liberally and begin rolling. In case you find the dough sticking onto rolling pin, you possibly can place a sheet of plastic wrap or one other sheet of parchment paper over the cookie dough and roll. This helps it breaking and sticking.

12)Roll the cookie dough into 1 inch thickness. Don’t roll it too thin or too thick.

Cutting Sugar Cookies

13)Dip the cookie cutter in plain flour.

14)Cut out cookies using cookie cutter. I exploit Christmas cookie cutters for this.

15)You need to use whichever shape you want.

16)Now the cookies are cut out. You possibly can gently remove the additional cookie dough, bring it together right into a ball, re roll again and cut out more cookies.

Baking Sugar Cookies

17)Place the cut out cookies in a parchment lined baking tray. Pop it right into a 180 degree C preheated oven and bake.

18)The cookies will get light golden in color. It is going to take around 12 to quarter-hour to bake these cookies.

19)Once baked remove the cookies onto a cooling rack and funky completely. You possibly can benefit from the cookies because it is or you possibly can decorate them as you like.

Eggless Sugar Cookies (Step-wise Pictures)

You do not eat eggs, No worries! I got you covered. Here is the recipe for cut-out sugar cookies made without eggs. This eggless sugar cookies taste just like the classic sugar cookies but made eggless.

These eggless sugar cookie dough is simple to roll and stays together whenever you cut out shapes and bake.

Ingredients for Eggless Sugar Cookies

• All Purpose Flour / Maida – 1 ½ cup / 180 grams
• Sugar – ½ cup / 100 grams
• Unsalted Butter – ½ cup / 110 grams
• Salt – ¼ tsp
• Baking Powder – 1 tsp
• Yogurt / Curd – 1 tbsp
• Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp

Learn how to make Eggless Sugar Cookies

1)Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Line a baking tray with parchment paper and put aside. Take flour, baking powder, salt in a bowl and blend well. That is your dry ingredients.

2)Take butter, sugar, vanilla in a bowl and whip till creamy. It is going to take around 3 to 4minutes to combine. Add in yogurt and whip again. Now add in flour in and blend well to form this right into a soft dough.

3) Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill the dough for half-hour to 1 hour.

4)Now remove the dough from fridge. Roll the dough between two sheets of plastic wrap till it’s 1 inch thickness. Now take your cookie cutter, dip it in flour and cut out shapes.

Remove the cut-out shapes fastidiously and place it within the baking tray. Now bake this for 10 to 12 mins till the cookies starts to get very very light color on them. Remove it and allow them to cool down completely. Now you possibly can decorate them or enjoy because it is.

You possibly can take the scraps of dough and re roll them many times and make cookies.

Decorating Sugar Cookies

For decorating sugar cookies. You need to use a sandwich size ziploc bag for piping over the cookies. In case you haven’t got ziploc cover you possibly can easily make small make shift piping bag using parchment paper.

Use small piece of parchment paper, shape it into cone shape. Use a bit of cellophane tape to stay it together. Now you possibly can pour the icing into the cone and seal it together.

When decorating, snip a small piece in the long run of parchment paper piping bag and decorate the cookies using that.

Royal Icing for Sugar Cookies

Traditionally royal icing is made with egg whites, lemon juice and powdered sugar. But I made a eggless version for straightforward to make use of. I actually have a recipe for royal icing.

Here is the recipe for eggless royal icing

• Icing Sugar / Confectioner Sugar – 1 cup
• Cornflour / Cornstarch  – 1 tbsp
• Lemon Juice – 2 tsp
• Milk – 2 tbsp or as needed
• Food Colors as needed

Take all of the ingredients except milk in a bowl, slowly add milk and blend well to an icing. Now use this to your cookies. In case you want thicker icing, use little less milk and for those who desire a thinner glaze add more milk and lemon juice.

Once the glaze is prepared. Add pinch of food colourings into the glaze and blend. You possibly can pour this into our make-shift parchment piping bag and use that to embellish the cookies.

Let the creativity in you bloom and decorate the cookies as you want. Decorate the cookies with sprinkles, edible glitters, golden stars, pebbles whichever you want.

Enjoy.

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