Happy
Holidays!!!!!It is the last Christmas
cookie of the year.From the time my
girls were little we have decorated cutout cookies on Christmas Eve.My Gram would make a batch of the cookies and
make sure we had them.During the
afternoon of Christmas Eve when the girls could barely contain their excitement
we would pull out the cookies, mix up some icing and put them (and my brother) to
work.
It was magic, they focused on the
cookies and the afternoon flew by.The
girls are mostly grown now but cutouts are still the last cookie we made and
they still decorate them.My husband has
to ‘sample’ the cookies from each of us as we are decorating.We still end up with more icing on our hands
and the table and the cookies are not perfect but it is a Christmas tradition
that we cherish.Hope you make a
tradition of your own.
3/4 cup butter, softend 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt
Mix butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add eggs and vanilla extract.
Mix in flour, baking powder, and salltPreheat oven to 400.
Roll out dough on a floured surface to desired thickness. Cut shapes with cookie cutters. Place carefully onto cookie sheets lined with parchment
paper.
