Here is the recipe:
SUGAR COOKIES
3/4 cup Butter, at room temperature
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs, at room temperature
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
2 1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
*Whip butter until creamy. Add sugar, eggs, and vanilla; mix well.
*Add flour, baking powder, and salt.
*Form into a ball.
*Wrap in lightly floured plastic wrap.
*Chill at least 1hr (this is the secret to perfect sugar cookies).
*Roll dough on floured surface, cut, and bake at 400° for 7-8 min.
Makes about 2 dozen...depending on how thick you make your cookies.
I double my recipe! (And since no one ever has a big recipe and I have to do the calculations myself while baking, I'm adding the double recipe for big families) :)
Sugar Cookies-Doubled
1 1/2 cups Butter, at room temperature
2 cups Sugar
4 Eggs, at room temperature
2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
5 cups Flour
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Salt
*Whip butter until creamy. Add sugar, eggs, and vanilla; mix well.
*Add flour, baking powder, and salt.
*Form into a ball.
*Wrap in lightly floured plastic wrap.
*Chill at least 1hr (this is the secret to perfect sugar cookies).
*Roll dough on floured surface, cut, and bake at 400° for 7-8 min.
Makes about 4 dozen...depending on how thick you make your cookies.
Buttercream Frosting
12 oz Butter, at room temperature
1 lb Powedered Sugar, sifted
1 - 1 1/2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
*Cream
butter with the paddle attachment in your mixer.
*Add the sifted
powdered sugar ... once the mixture has come together, stop and scrape
the bowl and paddle attachment.
*Turn your mixer up to medium speed and
paddle for about 5 min to make the mixture light and fluffy.
*Turn mixer
to low and vanilla and if you want to add any other flavorings; once
incorporated return mixer to med speed and continue to paddle for 2 more
minutes.
~I use little plastic containers to divide up the frosting and add the food coloring. If you're like me and want a lot of colors to choose from, be wise in your coloring choices. By that I mean...you don't want to have to make a ton of frosting just to have color options. So for me, I frosted all the Christmas trees first with the green, and a few mittens. Used up as much green as I was going to, then added a few yellow and red drops, to get brown for the tree trunks & gingerbread men. Make sense? Any other time I would have just made brown to begin with, but then you're left with a lot of wasted frosting...that adds to the expense, and the waste...not good. So make a plan! :)
Here are a few pics:
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| Don't mind the white ones...those were the "midnight snack" ones. ;) |
Hope you enjoy these as much as our family does~
Heather
