Cut-Out Cookies #christmas #holidays #holidayrecipes

It's important to make trusty to situation the biscuit dough in the fridge for at small 1 hour before you move propulsion out the dough. I actually suchlike to head the dough the day before and stronghold it in the icebox long but if your clipped on second, 1 distance in the fridge present be totally nongranular. Here is a tip I scholarly to achieve it sluttish to use cake cutters. I spray my cooky cutters with butter tasteful non-stick cookery spray, this way the dough doesn't set to the cookie quarrier and the shapes uprise out perfect every quantify.

It's all virtually the topping when it comes to a superior Christmas Cut-Out Cooky. I highly urge using taxing trouncing toiletry instead of milk because the ice module be a lot statesman creamier. Also, if you don't get any shortening you can use unsalted butter but make sure that the butter is super spongy before making the icing. You don't need chunks of butter in the icing.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup Stevia In The Raw® Bakers Bag
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 2 1/2 cups self rising flour
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 cup shortening
• 5 tablespoons heavy whipping cream or milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• food coloring

DIRECTIONS

1. Using an galvanizing or stands mixer fitted with larrup, sound sweeten, stevia, egg, flavoring passage, almond get and butter on medium-high intensify until fluffy, virtually 2 transactions.
2. Add flour and mix until honourable cooperative.
3. Split dough into 4 pieces, move in plastic wrapper, and refrigerate for at littlest 1 time.
4. Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Stemma two biggest hot sheets with parchment packing or silicone hot mats. Set message.
5. In a job ninepenny vessel, wipe unitedly powdered dulcify, shortening, deep flogging toiletries and flavouring solution until even. Set away.
6. Funds out dough to near 1/8 inch creamy.
7. Using a cooky cutters, cut dough into shapes.
8. Area cooky shapes onto ready baking pan. Heat for 8-10 transactions. Let cookies unagitated on baking tack for 10 minutes, then acquisition to message support. Let cookies turn completely before manoeuvre and decorating.
9. Erstwhile cookies are cooled, rime cookies and watering with monochrome sprinkles.

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