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Snowflake Cookies – Christmas Cookies Recipe

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Snowflake Christmas Cookies

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No Fail Sugar Cookies

 
This recipe is perfect for cookie cutters. The dough doesn’t spread during baking, so you get nice cookie shapes. 
 
Ingredients

•  6 cups flour
•  3 tsp. baking powder
•  2 cups unsalted butter
•  2 cups sugar (white granulated)
•  2 eggs
•  2 tsp. vanilla extract, almond or desired flavoring
•  1 tsp. salt

 
Instructions
  1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Mix dry ingredients and add a little at a time to butter mixture. Mix until flour is completely incorporated and the dough comes together.
  2. Chill for 1 to 2 hours
  3. Roll to desired thickness and cut into desired shapes. Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 350 degrees F (176 C) for 8 to 10 minutes or until just beginning to turn brown around the edges. This recipe can make up to 5-dozen 3″ cookies.

Once the cookies have cooled completely, decorate with different colors of icing.  I make a batch of glaze icing and separate it into lots of different bowls with 2 bowls for each color (1 thick icing for outlines and 1 thin icing for filling-in for every color).

 

Glaze Icing

Ingredients

•  2 lbs of powedered sugar
•  1/3 cup light Karo corn syrup
•  1-2 TBS of clear vanilla and or clear almond extract (or some of both). 
•  milk or water to adjust consistency

Instructions

  1. Mix powdered sugar, corn syrup and flavorings together at a low speed until thoroughly blended without any small pockets of powdered sugar.  Do not use high speed or you will end up with bubbles.
  2. For thicker icing to use for outlining or writing, add additional powdered sugar until you get the desired consistency.
  3. For thinner icing to fill in designs, add very small amounts of milk or water until you get the consistency you want.
  4. Can be stored in the refrigerator for a week, but should be room temperature again before using.

 

Add outline icings to parchment paper cones or icing bags with tiny tips.  Outline the design onto your cookie with the thick icing. Use thinner icing to fill in the design by either spooning small amount in and spreading around or using icing bags to squeeze out and spread around.

Once the cookies are completely dry, go back with the thicker icing and draw on any additional designs or details you like.

I’d love to see how yours turn out!  Feel free to comment or message me with any questions.  🙂

Comments

  2. These looks so cute! I love getting new ideas for cookies. Thank you for the recipe! 

  3. these are absolutely beautiful!  thank you for the recipes – i havent seen one with karo syrup in it.

  4. I’ve never made glaze icing before. These cookies are so cute and festive! I’ll have to try this recipe soon!

  5. These are so pretty! I’ve had some real disasters with cut out cookies before, so I’ll have to give these a try.

  7. These are absolutely beautiful! I love the whole idea, and I LOVE the color of your icing!

  9. Wow, these Snow Flake Cookies are beautiful, and the sound delicious! Thank you for sharing the recipe!

  12. These would be nice for gifts . They are so pretty. Nice for adults too. Thanks for the recipe for them before the Christmas holiday. Time to bake now

  13. These are decorated so beautifully!  I think that the sugar cookie is the most used recipe that people decorate.  I never could decorate cookies that good.  I wish I could though.  Mine would never look like the picture it was suppose to look like  haha.

  14. Love the cookies, I was always wondering how to make the icing so it would stick like some you buy, Have to try, I also think these cookies could find their way to a Frozen Party. What a great treat to have when we watch Frozen movie.
    Thanks for sharing.

  15. OMG ~ these are so gorgeous, almost too pretty to eat! I would love to make these for my friends class this year. Hope I can frost them right.

  19. These cookies are so adorable and really fun to make. I want to make these cookies for the Holidays!

  20. These are so pretty! I know from experience that my cookies would not look this good. Still it’s fun to try!

  21. Wow, those are absolutely gorgeous! We’ve been making Christmas cookies for year now, but usually we use sprinkles instead of icing. Might be fun to try it like this, this year.

  27. These are so pretty. I love the idea of putting them on sticks and using them in a centerpiece arrangement.

  31. These Snowflake Christmas cookies are absolutely amazing. I love the colors you used for the frosting and gets one right into the holiday spirit.

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