Lets Make Christmas Cookies 🎄🎅🍪

Christmas Cookies 🎄🎅🍪 - One of my favorite holiday traditions is making batch after batch of our family’s classic Christmas Sugar Cookie recipe with the kids! 🎄😋 They’re buttery, vanilla-scented, melt in your mouth - with a perfectly tender snap. The dough is easy to make ahead and freeze so you can bake off a fresh tray any time…and watch them disappear in seconds! 😅 Pair with some spiced cider or creamy Earl Grey tea (my favorite!) for dunking…but there’s no wrong way to enjoy. ☕️ Can’t wait to see your batches at home!
✨Ingredients✨2 ½ cups sifted flour½ teaspoon kosher salt1 tsp baking powder1 cup unsalted butter, softened1 cup + 1 tbsp sugar1 large egg, room temperature2 tbsp orange juice1 tsp vanilla
✨Instructions✨𝟙 Combine flour, salt, and baking powder in a medium bowl and whisk to combine. Use an electric mixer to cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy (3 minutes), then beat in egg for fifteen seconds and then vanilla and orange juice another 15 seconds. Gradually stir in flour mix by hand until well blended.
𝟚 If you use cookie cutters, wrap dough in parchment paper and allow to chill in freezer 1 hour before using so butter hardens a bit again. You can freeze cookie dough wrapped in parchment paper and then in a sealed plastic bag up to 3 months if you want to get a head start! If you use a cookie press, do not chill dough.
𝟛 After an hour, flour rolling pin, hands and work surface generously and work dough just to pliability. Roll dough to 1/4” (thinner, crispier cookies) to 1/2” thickness (puffier cookies) and cut your favorite shapes! Place in a prepared baking sheet and decorate with sugar crystals if using. Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Watch and remove when cookies are lightly golden brown around edges. Yum!!