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Glazed Sugar Cookies Recipe – Decorated Christmas Cut Out Cookies Recipe

December 20, 2015 By Aarthi 6 Comments

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Many of you have been asking me to share sugar cookies, christmas cutout cookies recipe. Finally i made both the eggless and with egg version for this christmas. Both of them turned out so good. 

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Check out Eggless Royal Icing Recipe for Decorating the cookies

These cookies make a great holiday treat as well as a great christmas present. You can put them in small plastic cover, tie them with a ribbon and you are good to go..

As soon as i saw this video on youtube, i know i have to give it a try. It is such a cute cookie to try but taste so delicious and pretty easy to make as well. The decorations on these cookies totally depends on your imagination and creativity. it is a great cookie to try with your lil one, because they will love it for sure..
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
Preparation Time : 10 mins
Chilling Time : 2 hours
Baking Time : 10 to 15 mins
Makes : 20 to 24 cookies
Recipe Source: Laura in the kitchen

Ingredients:
Soft Unsalted Butter – 3/4 cup / 170 grams
Sugar – 1 cup / 200 grams
Vanilla Essence – 2 tsp
Eggs – 2
All Purpose Flour / Maida – 3 cups / 360 grams
Baking Powder – 1/2 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Jam – as needed (Use any of your favourite jam)
Icing Sugar / Confectioners Sugar – 3 to 4 tblspn
Royal Icing – 1 batch (RECIPE HERE)

(My 1 cup measures 240 ml)

Method:
Take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whip till creamy. Now add in one egg at a time and whip till fluffy.
Add in flour, baking powder and salt and whip again till it is mixed into a soft dough.
Now wrap this in plastic and chill this for couple of hours.
Once the dough is chilled. Cut it in half.

Now preheat oven to 180 degree C.

Roll the dough into 1/4 inch thickness and use a cookie cutter to cut out shapes. 

Arrange it in a parchment lined baking tray.
Bake for 12 to 15 mins. If your cookies are thicker it may take upto 15 mins.
Now remove it from oven and cool it down completely.

Now decorate it as you wish and let it set for an hour or so and store this in a air tight container.
Pictorial:

Take all your ingredients
Take soft butter in a bowl
add in sugar
add in vanilla
use a beater to whip this up
now it is well creamed
add in one egg at a time
whip well
add another egg
whip till creamy
add in flour
add in baking powder and salt
mix well
make it into a soft dough
spread a sheet of plastic wrap
place the dough in
wrap it well
chill this for couple of hours
Take half of the dough
Warm it with your hands and shape it into round
Roll it out
Now take your christmas cookie cutters
dip it in flour first
cut out cookies
Cute ginger bread men
I made these cute teddy for my lil one..Gingerbread men and teddy are her favourite
You can use a straw and make a small hole on top of the cookies,
so you can hang them as christmas decorations on tree
I made many other as well
Arrange it in a foil lined baking sheet
Bake for 12 to 15 mins till the cookies get light golden around the edges
remove it and cool it completely
Now lets make the icing bag..Take a triangle shape of parchment paper
roll it like this
then keep on rolling
tape it with cellotape
icing funnel done
all done

I made a batch of my eggless royal icing..RECIPE HERE
Make icing and divide it into bowl..RECIPE HERE
Add in colour and mix well
Now place a icing bag in a small cup
fill with icing
pinch the edges
all done
Spread a newspaper down, place a cooling rack on 
top and arrange cookies over it
Now decorate them as you like
top with sprinkles
Let them dry for a hour or so and enjoy
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  1. Nalini Hadli

    December 20, 2015 at 9:35 am

    Lovely. But I can't try as we don't use eggs at home

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  2. sara

    December 22, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    i am not having icing sugar can i use normal sugar powder instead of icing

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  3. Aarthi

    December 23, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    @Nalini Hadliyou can use my eggless sugar cookies

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  4. Aarthi

    December 23, 2015 at 2:15 pm

    @sarano u need icing sugar for this

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  5. Archana Ram

    March 11, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    Can you please let me know a substitute for egg…

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  6. Aarthi

    March 21, 2016 at 1:39 pm

    @Archana Ramno sub in this..check my eggless sugar cookies for eggless https://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/2015/12/eggless-cutout-sugar-cookies-eggless.html

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