A recipe for the best, iced Christmas cookies, featuring homemade sugar cookies and an easy buttercream icing for cookies. Plus, how to ice tree and wreath cookies to look like grass. These sugar cookies are the best tasting iced sugar cookies in the entire world! Homemade gifts don’t get much better or more sincere than this. To take the time to create something spectacular for loved ones is heartfelt and gracious, and your recipients will be over-the-top merry to receive these cookies.
Our basic and quick Sugar Cookie Recipe perfect for rolled out cookie-cutter cookies, I have been using this recipe for years and it is my go-to recipe for Cookie cutters cookies.
1 Cup unsalted butter
1 Cup granulated white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups all purpose flour
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350° F.
cream butter and sugar until smooth and light in color
Beat in the extract and egg.
Add the remaining ingredients.
The dough will be stiff and you will need to knead it like a bread dough until in comes together.
Divide into workable batches, roll out onto a floured surface and cut in to rounds 1/4 inch thick.
Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes. Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.
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