Blogmas Day 6 - Baking Sugar Cookies

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. During Blogmas, I have decided that every Sunday leading up to Christmas, I will be sharing a recipe for cookies that I try. Every year I always think that I would like to try out more cookie recipes. There are so many out there for Christmas. I love baking and don't often find the time to do it except at Christmas. What better time than Christmas to bake cookies? This is the season to indulge in delicious treats and what do we need more in 2020? Well wine as well but we can have both!

I love eating sugar cookies at Christmas, they are so delicious and also decorating them is a big part of the fun. I decorated some last year in this post here. The cookies turned out a bit crumbly last year, but still tasty. This year I used a different recipe and followed the instructions more closely. The recipe I followed this year is the Best Cut Out Sugar Cookie recipe from Joy Food Sunshine. I will not be sharing her recipe on my blog today, but you can click on the link above for the full recipe! She includes amazing directions that are so easy to follow. I also love that she includes descriptions of the ingredients used and alternatives you can also use.

The dough was cold after chilling for more than 2 hours in the fridge and make it easier to cut out the shapes. I did roll it out a bit too much, so then the dough became warmer and then quite sticky, so I tried to hurry at the end to put them on the baking sheet so I didn't ruin the shapes. Laura suggests on the website not to roll the dough out too much because it warms up the dough. Of course, I read this after putting the cookies n the oven. I used the Christmas tree cutter pictured below to get my tree shapes. I bought this cutter a couple of years ago from Michaels.

I used the method that Laura suggests on her blog to decorate the cookies with the icing, to draw the outline and then fill in the rest of the icing. I love this method because it gives a nice shiny and flat appearance at the end. I enjoyed eating this cookie by the tree with some coffee this morning. It was so delicious! I highly recommend this recipe, it will be my go-to recipe for sugar cookies for years to come!

Thank you so much for joining me for Blogmas day 6! We are moving right along now and I can't believe it is already day 6. I am loving the holiday season so far and I am mostly watching Christmas movies, decorating, and making cookies so far. I am enjoying going to visit other people's blogs posting for Blogmas and celebrating the season. Have you made Christmas cookies this season yet and what recipes do you love? 

If you would like to see all my Blogmas posts so far from this year, please click here.

Have a great day!