Frosted Sugar Cookies (12 Days of Giveaways) #ChristmasWeek

Welcome to Christmas Week, a multi-blogger event co-hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Jen from Juanita’s Cocina! Each day we will be celebrating the holidays with a different set of Christmas-themed treats, as well as a fabulous Christmas giveaway. We hope you enjoy this fabulous event. Tune in each day starting today, Monday, December 9th and ending Saturday, December 14th.

Today is the start of Christmas Week 2.0. You may remember last year we did a Christmas week, with a different theme each day. Pie, Cake, Cookies, Gingerbread, and Peppermint. This year things have grown a little. Each day this week (Monday-Saturday) the Christmas Week 2.0 group will be posting new holiday recipes for you. Every day there will also be a giveaway involved. Seriously, there is some great stuff this week: Magimix, Le Creuset, Freund Container Supply, Cake Boss and more! So be sure to check back each day.

Frosted sugar cookies are a staple in my house at Christmas time. My husband is very picky about his sugar cookies, and this is the only recipe I am “allowed” to make. We prefer to have our cookies thick and soft. If they start to get brown on the edges, they are over down in my opinion. I used to do a cookie exchange with co-workers before I had my son. It was always up in the air which sugar cookie recipe we would use, because everyone had their favorites. Some said cream of tarter recipes were the best, others said sour cream based was the best. I stepped up and said I would make mine, it was a compromise between the two. Everyone was shocked, and mine became the go to recipe each year.

The fun thing about sugar cookies is you can make them any shape you like, for any season. I actually did football helmets, and footballs a few weeks ago. There was a big game between the WI Badgers and BYU. There are lots of BYU fans where my husband works. So when the Badgers won, he requested I make themed Badger cookies to take to work. All the guys at work loved them, and were able to forgive with WI theme I actually posted this recipe when I first started blogging, like one of the first few posts. I am not sure more than 10 people saw it though, so here it is again!

Frosted Sugar Cookies (12 Days of Christmas)

Serves: 3 doz

• Prep time: 15 mins
• Cook time: 10 mins
• Total time: 25 mins
• Classic cut out sugar cookies
• Ingredients
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter – softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 3 Tbls milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3 cups flour
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt

Frosting for decorating (recipe here)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Cream together the butter and sugar. Add in the milk, vanilla and egg. Mix in the flour, baking powder and salt.

Roll the dough onto a floured surface. We like the cookies to be thick and chewy, so I roll it out to about ¼ inch thick. Dip a cookie cutter in flour, and cut out cookies. Place on a baking sheet.

Bake for 6-8 minutes.

Remove from oven, and let cook for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Once completely cool, frost and decorate as desired.

Let the frosting harden before storing in an air tight container.

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