Christmas Cookies!

Who doesn't love this time of year?

With all the sparkly lights, the fluffy white snow, seeing all 176 of your relatives and of course, the YUMMY Christmas treats everyone seems to be cooking up this time of year.

This really is the most wonderful time of the year!

Now, let's make the most wonderful, simple sugar cookies!

(with a colorful twist)

Sugar Cookie Ingredients:

2 1/4 Cups Flour

1 Cup Butter (room temp)

1 Cup Sugar

1 Egg

1 T. Vanilla

1 T. Baking Powder

1/4 T. Salt

(and a few drops of food coloring- red and green)

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

Bake time: 8-10 minutes.

Makes about 2 dozen!

Beat the softened, room temperature butter until it is cream, then add the sugar, baking powder and salt and beat it some more! I always whisk by hand and this took me 2-3 minutes to get it nice and fluffy.

Next, add the egg and vanilla and beat the dough again.

Slowly begin to add the flour, about 1/2 a cup at a time.

You might have to use your hands to kneed the last little bit of flour into the dough, since it will get harder and harder as you add more flour.

Now, split the dough in half and add 5-6 drops of red food coloring into one half and 3-4 of green into the other half!

(I used more red because I didn't want my dough to look pink)

Kneed and kneed until the food coloring has been evenly distributed throughout the dough!

(it got a bit messy)

Wrap each half in plastic wrap and pop them into the freezer for an hour.

Once the dough has hardened a bit, it should look like this!

Now you can roll it out and start cutting your shapes!

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You can roll out each color and lay one on top of the other, roll them up and then cut them up into cookies!

Like this:

(we only did this with half of each color so we could still cut out Christmas shapes and decorate them)

I sprinkled the top of the spiral cookies with some course sugar!

Looks pretty Christmassy to me!

With the rest of the dough we made Christmas shapes to decorate!

 My little helper in the kitchen!

Santa is watching you!!

Merry Christmas!