Xmas Sugar Cookie Recipe

This is a fun recipe for making your Christmas cookies, fun to do with the children also; children like to do the decorating when the cookies are cooled.

4 cups self rising flour, one ½ cups sugar, 1 ½ sticks of butter, ½ tsp.baking soda, 2 eggs, 1 tsp. vanilla extract, ¼ cup ice cold water, food coloring red and green, 1 can of white frosting.

In large bowl mix flour, sugar, baking soda, add butter and cut into flour until crumbly, add eggs and vanilla mix well, add a tsp. at a time of the cold water, form nice firm cookie dough, make two balls and put in refrigerator for 15 min.

While cookie dough is chilling , get your oven set at 400 , flour a surface where you can roll out your dough, take your can of frosting put a little frosting in a cup with 2 drops of desired food coloring set to the side.

Get your cookie dough from the refrigerator and on your floured surface roll out your dough, take cookie cutter for desired shapes, place cookies on ungreased cookie sheet and bake 10-15 min or until slightly brown.

Cool completely before decorating, if you do not want frosted cookies you can also just put 3-4 drops of food coloring in your cookie dough and have green Christmas trees, red Christmas balls, candy canes, wreaths.

There are so many ways to have fun with this recipe, especially when the children get involved, my two girls and I have the most wonderful Christmas memories, my girls are grown now but we still make those same Christmas cookies and my grandson does the decorating now.