Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe

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Christmas is an amusing time of the year for Christians. They celebrate this festival with great zeal. Kids eagerly wait for this festival. They receive gifts from Santa Clause on this special day. Decorating houses, decorating a Christmas tree and preparing Christmas cookies are significant parts of Christmas celebration. Christians sing songs and arrange big parties to celebrate Christmas festival. They exchange gifts and wish each other Merry Christmas. Many kids like Christmas sugar cookies. For them, here we have given Christmas sugar cookie recipe. With our easy to follow instructions, you can easily learn how to make sugar cookie with ease.

Ingredients

• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 eggs
• Food coloring
• margarine, softened
• Vanilla frosting
• Colored candies
• Fruit rolls
• Sprinkles
• Jelly beans
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
• Green and red decorating gel
• Powdered sugar
• Cookie cutters

Cooking methodology:

• To prepare sugar cookie, first you need to sift baking powder, salt and flour in a bowl
• After this, you need to beat margarine, eggs, butter, vanilla and sugar in a big bowl with mixer until fluffy
• Now, slowly add flour mixture and then stir with spoon until completely mixed. Cover dough with plastic wrap and then chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. After this, you need to roll out dough to ¼ inch thick on lightly floured surface
• Cut circles with a cutter or other round object like round plastic or glass container.
• Place circles two inches apart on cookie sheet
• Now, you need to bake it for 6 to 8 minutes. Cookies are done if edges are lightly browned. Do not let cookies to get too brownish. Take away from the oven and then let cookies to cool
• Remove from cookies sheets to aluminum foil and let them cool totally
• After this, you need to spread frosting on the top of every cookie by using a butter knife. You can even color it using food coloring
• Allow children to adorn the sugar cookies with powdered sugar, candles and sprinkles.
• For making holly berry cookies, you need to place two red candles toward the top of the cookie and then draw on leaves with green adorning gel
• For sugar trees, stars and other shapes, you need to place a mini cookie cutter on the top of cookie after it frosted. You need to sprinkle a sugar carefully into cookie cutter with your fingers
• Now, remove the cookie cutter
• You can easily cover a cookie with decorative sugar by holding cookie upside and dipping cookie into sugar

The sugar cookie is rapidly put together and yields a big amount of cookies, which comes in handy for the Christmas cookie exchanges. Anybody will enjoy eating delicious Christmas sugar cookie. So, enjoy making Christmas sugar cookie.