Holiday Sugar Cookies

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: North American

Prep Time: 30

Cook Time: 12

Total Time: 42

Servings: cookies

Calories: 183kcal

Author: Lord Byron's Kitchen

This recipe consists of a melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookie base, topped with a thin, sugary glaze, and festive sprinkles. Holiday Sugar Cookies are brightly and vividly coloured with red and green frosting and will appeal to both the little kids and the big kids in your life!

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Ingredients

3/4 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
4 cups confectioner's sugar
3 tablespoons milk
red and green food colouring
1/4 cup candy sprinkles

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Set aside.
In a large bowl, use a mixer to beat together the butter and sugar until creamy and light yellow in colour. (About 4-5 minutes.)
Add the eggs one at a time and beat into the butter and sugar mixture.
Beat in the vanilla extract.
Sift in the flour, salt, and baking powder. Beat into the wet mixture until well combined.
Portion the cookie dough into heaping tablespoons. Roll into a ball and place onto the prepared baking sheet.
Press down on each ball until ball is flattened to just over 1/4 inch thick. (I used the bottom of a drinking glass.)
Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 2-3 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack to finish cooling.
Once completely cooled, stir the milk into the confectioner's sugar until a thin, smooth frosting is formed.
Divide the frosting into three bowls. Tint one bowl with red frosting and another with green. Leave one bowl of frosting white.
Working with one cookie at a time, dip a third of the cookies in the white frosting and set them onto a wire cooling rack. Top with sprinkles. Dip another third into the red frosting and the remaining third into the green.
Allow glaze to fully dry before packaging cookies.

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