Glazed Sugar Cookies Recipe - Decorated Christmas Cut Out Cookies Recipe

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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.

Also check out my collection of 38 cookies recipes

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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