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Sugar Cookies | Christmas Cut-Out Sugar Cookies Recipe

These are my best and easy recipe for cut-out Christmas sugar cookies! This sugar cookies is also known as Christmas cookies, cut-out cookies or Christmas tree cookies. These are a simple sugar cookie dough which is easy to roll and holds it shape when cut into different shapes and baked. Decorate it with colourful icing and have a fun holiday cookie decoration with your kids. In this detailed recipe post I have sugar cookies made with eggs and eggless, steps to make icing and tips for decorating cookies. If you are not into glazed cookies, then try my chewy sugar cookies which is great for santa.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Resting Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 247kcal

Equipment

  • Mixing Bowl
  • Parchment Paper & Cling Wrap
  • Baking Tray
  • Cookie Cutters preferably Christmas shapes
  • OTG or Oven

Ingredients

Sugar Cookies

  • ¾ cup Soft Unsalted Butter 170 grams
  • 1 cup Caster Sugar 200 grams
  • 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 2 Eggs
  • 3 cups All Purpose Flour 360 grams
  • ½ tsp Baking Powder
  • ¼ tsp Salt

Eggless Sugar Cookies

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

Eggless Royal Icing

  • 1 cup Icing Sugar| Confectioner Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Cornstarch
  • 2 tsp Lemon Juice
  • 2 tbsp Milk
  • ¼ tsp Food Colours as needed

Instructions

Sugar Cookies

  • 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.
  • 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 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 an air tight container.

Eggless Sugar Cookies

  • Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Line a baking tray with parchment paper and set aside.
  • Take flour, baking powder, salt in a bowl and mix well. Take butter, sugar, vanilla in a bowl and whip till creamy.Add in yogurt and whip again. Now add in flour in and mix well. form this into a soft dough. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill the dough for 1 hours.
  • Now remove the dough from fridge. Cut it in half. Roll the dough between two sheets of plastic wrap till it is 1 inch thickness. Now take your cookie cutter, dip it in flour and cut out shapes. Remove the shapes carefully and place it in the baking tray. Now bake this for 10 to 12 mins till the cookies starts to get very very light colour on them. Remove it and let them cool down completely. Now you can decorate them or enjoy as it is. You can take the scraps of dough and re roll them again and again and make cookies.

Decorating Sugar Cookies

  • For decorating sugar cookies. You can use a sandwich size ziploc bag for piping over the cookies. If you don't have ziploc cover you can easily make small make shift piping bag using parchment paper. Use small piece of parchment paper, shape it into cone shape. Use a piece of cellophane tape to stick it together. Now you can pour the icing into the cone and seal it together. When decorating, snip a small piece in the end of parchment paper piping bag and decorate the cookies using that.
  • For icing. Take all the ingredients except milk in a bowl, slowly add milk and mix well to an icing. Now use this for your cookies. If you want thicker icing, use little less milk and if you want a thinner glaze add more milk and lemon juice. Once the glaze is ready. Add pinch of food colourings into the glaze and mix. You can pour this into our make-shift parchment piping bag and use that to decorate the cookies.
  • Let the creativity in you bloom and decorate the cookies as you wish. Decorate the cookies with sprinkles, edible glitters, golden stars, pebbles whichever you like.

Notes

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

Nutrition

Serving: 1servings | Calories: 247kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 39mg | Sodium: 83mg | Potassium: 38mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 318IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 1mg
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