Easy Christmas Cutout Cookies
These Christmas cutout cookies are so easy for you and your kids to make together, and they taste so yummy too!
Yield
12 servingsPrep
20 minCook
10 minReady
40 minIngredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups |
all-purpose flour
Or 1 cup whole wheat pastry and 1 cup white flour |
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|
| ⅔ | cup |
sugar
|
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|
| 1 | teaspoon |
baking powder
|
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|
| ½ | cup |
butter, unsalted
room temperature |
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|
| ¼ | cup |
milk
Plus 1 tablespoon |
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|
| 1 | teaspoon |
vanilla extract
|
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|
| ¼ | teaspoon |
salt
|
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|
| Icing | |||
| ¼ | cup |
powdered sugar
|
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|
| 1 | teaspoon |
milk
Up to 2 teaspoons if the icing is too thick |
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|
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 473 | ml |
all-purpose flour
Or 1 cup whole wheat pastry and 1 cup white flour |
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|
| 0 |
sugar
|
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|
|
| 5 | ml |
baking powder
|
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|
| 118 | ml |
butter, unsalted
room temperature |
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|
| 59 | ml |
milk
Plus 1 tablespoon |
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|
| 5 | ml |
vanilla extract
|
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|
| 1.3 | ml |
salt
|
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|
| Icing | |||
| 59 | ml |
powdered sugar
|
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|
| 2 | each |
milk
Up to 2 teaspoons if the icing is too thick |
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|
Directions
To make cookies
Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Put the rest of the ingredients into the bowl, mix, and form a ball with your fingers. You might need a little bit of milk if the dough seems to dry.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and keep it refrigerated for 10 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 375 F.
Divide the dough into half, and work with half dough at a time; roll out until it is about ¼-inch thick.
Cut out the dough with the cookie cutters you prefer, and place the cookies onto the baking sheets.
Gather the scraps of dough, roll them out, and keep cutting out.
Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes until lightly browned around the edges.
Remove the baking sheets from the oven and let the cookies cool on a wire rack.
Repeat until you finish all the dough.
Icing
Mix all the icing ingredients in a small bowl until desired consistency.
Use the back of a small spoon to spread the icing over the cookies. If you like adding sprinkles to the cookies or the icing, do it right afterward.
The cookies can be stored in an air-dried container in the freezer for up to a few months.
