My Moms Cut Out Cookies Recipes

MY MOM'S CUT OUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Allow butter to soften (not melt!) at room temperature. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar.
• Add egg, vanilla, cream of tartar and baking soda.
• Add flour alternately with milk.
• Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least an hour in the refrigerator. (I usually chill it overnight.).
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Roll out with plenty of flour to keep from sticking, but try to avoid incorporating too much flour into the dough since it will make the cookies less moist.
• Cut out into circles or with your choice of cookie cutters. Carefully transfer cookies to an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake on a cookie sheet in the oven until they become a light gold color. Watch them carefully so that they don't get overdone.
• Allow to cook completely before icing.
• For icing, put a couple of tablespoons of not-quite-boiling water into a large bowl. Add the confectioners' sugar and mix together, adding more water as you need to form a thick paste. Color, as desired.
• Spread about 1 tablespoon of icing on each cookie. Decorate with colored sugar and sprinkles as desired.

MOM'S CHRISTMAS SUGAR CUT-OUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line 2 baking pans with parchment paper.
• Mix confectioners' sugar, butter, egg, vanilla, and almond extract in a bowl with an electric mixer until it comes together well and butter is not clumpy. Slowly mix in baking soda and cream of tarter, then flour. When the dough becomes tougher to mix, use your hands to mash and knead until the dough is completely formed.
• Transfer dough to a large, floured work surface. Carefully roll to a thickness of about 1 centimeter or a little more; the thicker the dough, the softer the cookie. (These cookies will puff up in the oven.) Add flour to your work surface, the dough, and the rolling pin as needed.
• Cut out as many shapes as you can cleverly fit in the dough. Remove any extra dough from the perimeters of your cookies. Save all the scraps and roll into another ball for the next round of rolling and cutting out cookies.
• Delicately transfer the cookies to the prepared baking sheets, leaving at least 1 inch of space between each one.
• Bake one tray at a time on the middle rack of the preheated oven, until cookies are still white on top and have fluffed up, 7 to 8 minutes. If they brown lightly along the edges, they should be removed immediately. Let the cookies sit on the tray for 1 minute and then transfer them to a wire rack to cool while you bake the second sheet of cookies.
• While cookies are cooling, prepare frosting by beating butter, egg white, and vanilla together in a bowl until creamy. Slowly mix in confectioners' sugar until smooth. Divide frosting into smaller bowls. Add 2 to 3 drops food coloring per bowl and mix well.
• Apply a thick layer of frosting to cooled cookies, spreading as smoothly as you can. Leave cookies on wire racks and cover with waxed paper. Let sit until frosting has hardened, 8 hours to overnight.

MOM'S OAT FLOUR CUT OUT COOKIES

Steps:

• To make ground oat flour:.
• place 1 1/4cups quick or old fashioned oats, uncooked, in a blender or food processor. Cover and blend 60 seconds. Makes about 1 cup.
• To make cookies:.
• Beat together sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
• Blend in egg and vanilla.
• Combine flours and baking soda.
• Gradually add to butter mixture, mixing well after each addition.
• Cover, chill an hour.
• Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Roll out dough to 1/8 inch thickness on lightly floured surface.
• Cut with cookie cutter.
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 7 to 8 minutes until edges are golden brown.
• Cool thoroughly.
• Decorate with butter cream frosting and sprinkles, as desired.

DECORATED CHRISTMAS CUTOUT COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; mix well. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Chill until firm, 1 hour. , On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4-in thickness. Cut out with Christmas cookie cutters of your choice. Using a floured spatula, transfer cookies to greased baking sheets. Bake at 375° until lightly browned, 8-10 minutes. Cool completely on wire racks., Decorate cookies with frosting and colored sugars.

CUT OUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream margarine, sugar and vanilla.
• Add eggs.
• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Add to creamed.
• Chill 3 to 4 hours.
• I always leave over night and it is a lot easier to roll.
• On well floured surface roll 1/4-inch thick (I roll mine a little bit thicker-it makes nice puffy cookies).
• Use flour for rolling pin and cutters.
• Cut to desired shapes.
• Bake at 375° for 6-8 minutes depending on thickness of cookies.