Old-Fashioned Cut Out Christmas Cookies

Old-Fashioned Cut Out Christmas Cookies

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 72
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 53.7
  • Total Fat: 1.9 g
  • Cholesterol: 9.7 mg
  • Sodium: 35.5 mg
  • Total Carbs: 8.5 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 0.2 g
  • Protein: 0.8 g

View full nutritional breakdown of Old-Fashioned Cut Out Christmas Cookies calories by ingredient


View the original recipe for Old Fashioned Cut Out Sugar Cookies

Introduction

These are fun for the family to make and to eat! This recipe will soon become a treasured holiday tradition. These are fun for the family to make and to eat! This recipe will soon become a treasured holiday tradition.
Number of Servings: 72

Ingredients

    1 1/2 cups - granulated sugar
    2/3 cup - butter (or shortening - half of each is recommended)
    2 whole eggs
    2 Tbsp 2% milk
    1 tsp vanilla extract
    3 1/4 cups white flour
    2 1/2 tsp baking powder
    1/2 tsp salt

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, extract, and milk and blend together.

In a medium bowl, mix dry ingredients with a wire wisk. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in large bowl.

Mix with mixer until well combined.

With hands, shape dough into a ball. Wrap with plastic wrap and refridgerate for 2-3 hours.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Lightly grease cookie sheets. Roll half or 1/3 of the dough at a time. Keep the rest in the fridge.

For crispier cookies, roll the dough thin. For soft cookies, roll dough to 1/8-1/4 inch thick.

Flour cookie cutter and cut shapes. Re-roll trimmings and reshape. Place 1/2 inch apart on the cookie sheet and bake for 8 min or until light brown. Let cool then decorate!

Makes 6 dozen (depending on the size of your cookie cutters)




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Member Ratings For This Recipe


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    Very Good
    9 of 14 people found this review helpful
    If you are an adult and live in reality, you understand these are cut out cookies, for anytime, calling them Christmas hurts no one. If you try not to eat cookies, don't even click on the recipe . Don't pretend you won't ever eat cookies again, either..... - 12/17/16


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    Incredible!
    3 of 3 people found this review helpful
    My DH's favorite cookie. I don't make then too often as he eats them all. So delicious!! - 12/17/17


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    Incredible!
    3 of 3 people found this review helpful
    Delicious - 12/17/17


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    2 of 14 people found this review helpful
    Recipes for COOKIES is NOT HELPFUL! Why are you torturing us like this? - 12/22/15


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    1 of 2 people found this review helpful
    Looks Yummy! - 12/17/18