Simple Delicious Homemade Cookie Recipe
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Let's make some sugar cookies!
These simple, delicious homemade cookies are great choices when the weather is cold. However, you can make these cookies at any time of the year, not just when the temperatures dip.
Sugar cookies are one of the easiest and most versatile cookies. With a great sugar cookie recipe you can add ingredients to make them new and different depending upon your desires at the time.
Use Christmas Cookie Cutters to Make Them Gorgeous!
Easy Cookie Cutouts Recipe
This is a very economical and simple cookie recipe that will convert you into a pro cook!
Decorate them with some of the wonderful icing kits you can buy online and you will have a selection of homemade cookies that look good enough to wrap and give as gifts - if they last that long!
Try this recipe and let us know what you think when you taste them for yourself.
Ingredients
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 3-ounce package softened cream cheese
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
Combine all of the ingredients, except the flour, in a large bowl.
Using an electric mixer, beat the ingredients until the mixture is creamy.
Reduce the speed to low and begin adding flour, being sure to get the flour incorporated.
Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator for at least two hours or overnight.
When you're ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Take the dough out of the refrigerator and roll it out on a lightly floured surface.
Cut the cookies out and place them on cookie sheet.
Bake them for 7 to 10 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are lightly brown.
Remove them from the oven and allow them to cool completely.
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Cookie Decorating Options
Icing and melted chocolate are even more ways to decorate cookies!
You can decorate sugar cookies with run sugar, which is made similar to royal icing but thinner. When it dries it makes a hard shell. This type of decoration can be made into any color you can create. Have fun with it to create the scrumptious cookies you have envisioned.Fondant is another option when decorating cookies. This is a pre-made, pliable frosting. You can purchase it in many colors but also add food coloring to create the colors you want. Butter cream icing or piping gel will be needed to attach the fondant to the cooled cookies.
Melt candy coating, or almond bark, to give your cookies a chocolate coating. This can be found in milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate which can have food coloring added to it. Dip portions of the cookies into the melted candy, sprinkle on crushed peppermints or another candy, and you're good to go.
Decorate your cookies before you bake them by coloring the sugar before it is added to the cookie dough to give your cookies an overall different color.
You can also paint your cookies with egg yolks mixed with food coloring.
Nuts, sprinkles and crushed candies can also be added to the dough to change the look of the cookies before you bake them.
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Decorating instructions are as simple as tinting cookie dough green before baking Christmas trees or as intricate as piping hair on a gingerbread grandma, creating a frilly pattern for her apron, and decorating her dress using a pretty feathering technique. Techniques are described in full in a Decorating Glossary, and cookie and icing recipes are included.
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Each spread features a full-page, close-up photograph of one cookie cutter shape with detailed decorating instructions on the facing page. Some pages feature one gloriously decorated cookie, while others might feature two or three interpretations of the same shape - ornaments in complementary colors, Christmas trees decorated in varying styles, or gingerbread men wearing a rainbow of colors and patterns.
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PaperQuest Jan 28, 2012 @ 1:43 pm | delete
- I love this lens, Helen now you've made me hungry!
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Helene-Malmsio
Jan 28, 2012 @ 1:52 pm | delete
- I'm itching to turn the oven on and get baking, but it's just so darned HOT here right now, having a bit of a heatwave, so I'm not motivated to be working in the kitchen - but they are so yummy!
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susannaduffy
Jan 22, 2012 @ 6:03 am | delete
- I must get some Cookie Cutters and make some of these simple, but very delicious, homemade cookies
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Helene-Malmsio
Jan 27, 2012 @ 2:39 am | delete
- Thanks so much for visiting and saying hello, I really appreciate it! I have been ogling your "What's cooking" lens ... oh yum! ... you must have a huge collection of cookie cutters already - lol! You are inspiring me to get into the kitchen and get on with the Danish biscuits I promised my dad for Christmas, and the lemon marmalade, and the plum sauce.
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Dec 23, 2011 @ 1:48 am | delete
- Wonderful lenses you have created, I really like this lens.
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Dec 24, 2011 @ 10:56 am | delete
- Thank your for dropping by and saying hello - much appreciated!
Helene Malmsio aka SCSS
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Dec 23, 2011 @ 1:46 am | delete
- Wow, this is a wonderful lens! It's useful, full of energy and tips that can be used in everyday life!!! I mean I really like this one, it's really Awesome!! :)
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Helene-Malmsio
Dec 24, 2011 @ 10:57 am | delete
- Yes, I'll be baking at least a little this Christmas, gotta love those homemade cookies!
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TLC08
Dec 23, 2011 @ 1:43 am | delete
- Thank you for the informative and well organized info!
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Helene-Malmsio
Dec 24, 2011 @ 10:57 am | delete
- Hi there, thanks for visiting, have a great Holidays!
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miaponzo
Jun 18, 2011 @ 12:25 am | delete
- OH YEah!!!! This is the recipe for me!!!!! :) I love cream cheese cookies!
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TeamSTM
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- Sugar Cookies Never Get Old, the Christmas Tree cut-outs Cookies were and still are my favorite Sugar Cookies!!
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MarkUpshaw Dec 9, 2010 @ 1:55 am | delete
- Some of my best memories of mom were making sugar cookies with her as a child. She was always so happy during those times.
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