25 December 2008
Welcome to the tenth A Homemade Christmas! This is week Ten of Ten (you don’t have to enter in each one). I hope you’ll join us in sharing about homemade gifts that you have received or made — past, present, and future!
You can click here for the Introductory post.
It is a tradition in our family to make these cookies every year at Christmas time. Oh, these are so delicious! Every year Momma sought out to find the best sugar cookie recipe, and this is where her search ended.
Vanilla-Butter Sugar Cookies
PREHEAT: 350° | BAKE: 10-12 minutes | YIELD: 7 dozen
Cookies:
1-1/2 cups sugar
1-1/2 cups butter, softened
2 eggs
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
Frosting:
1-1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon milk
Food coloring, optional
Colored sugar
In a mixing bowl, combine sugar and butter; beat until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Stir together dry ingredients; gradually add to creamed mixture until completely blended. Chill for 30 minutes.
On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with holiday cutters dipped in flour. Using a floured spatula, transfer cookies to ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes. Cool on wire racks.
For frosting, combine sugar, butter, vanilla and milk; beat until creamy. Thin with additional milk to desired spreading consistency if necessary. Add a few drops of food coloring if desired. Spread frosting over cookies and decorate with colored sugar.
We have so much fun decorating these as a family around our dinner table! Some turn out pretty, while others are so ugly that we have to eat them right away before anyone else sees them. Ha!
I hope you have a wonderfully happy Christmas as you celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!
Announcement: There will be one extra week of A Homemade Christmas. On January 1st I will post a wrap-up AHC where you can post about the homemade gifts you received and the ones you were keeping secret until Christmas. I’m looking forward to it and I hope you’ll tune in and post about yours, too!
Have you made or received any homemade gifts? If you’d like to make a post about your homemade gifts, you can sign Mr. Linky below. You can add one of my Homemade Christmas icons to your blog by clicking here. Each Thursday (until the end of December) there will be A Homemade Christmas post! Hope you’ll join in the fun as we learn, inspire, and encourage one another!
| 1. Robin 2. Morgan |
3. Jennifer on the Frugal Front Porch (KaRaisin Cookies w/custom tin) 4. Molly |
Merry Christmas. I hope you had a wonderfull Christmas. I enjoyed mine immensely.
Blessings
Miss Emily
Wow, those look marvelous. :)
Merry Christmas!
Hi Emily,
Thanks for hosting a Homemade Christmas this year. I have enjoyed each one. We didn’t do homemade gifts this year, but you have definately inspired me to have one next year. I’ve already put a bug in the ear of my extended family so that we might all have homemade gifts next year. Please do it again next Christmas season!! I just found your blog a couple of days ago from a comment you left on Reniassance blog. And since then I have made two (and a half) of those little ‘kidlet’ tote bags on your moms site… very cute and creative idea. Well, thanks again and have a very merry Christmas and New Year all the way from central Florida!
Jinger
http://bittinger4.blogspot.com
Those look great! What a rich recipe. I tend to really indulge in those kinds of goodies. ;)
The snowflake cookies are especially cute!
I truly hope your day was filled with precious memories to last a lifetime.
Miss you,
Marie :)
That recipe sounds so good! My mama has been craving sugar cookies lately so I will have to make them for her.(she’s pregnant)
We do this every year, too! Each year the cookies get, ummm, more creative. We get to eat a lot of them. Haha! Our frosting is more like a shiny colored glaze – you can use clean paintbrushes to apply.
I love your site – found it through Small Notebook. Makes me want to break out my knitting & get creative again. :)
Those are very pretty cookies, thanks for the recipe.
Looks good enough to eat!
Oh dear!!! I wanted to join and here I am at the next to last time:( I am going to MAKE SURE that I join next year! :)
Those sugar cookies look REALLY good!! We should try them sometime. :)
Did you all have a nice Christmas? We did! I love the Christmas season!
~*~Suzanna~*~
Oh! If only I had found your blog a little sooner! I had a totally handmade Christmas this year and thoroughly enjoyed myself (now that I’m recuperating from craft exhaustion ;) ) I am saving this blog to my favorites as soon as I can get the mouse to the button.
Mmm…those look yummy! The icing on the snowflake cookies is just beautiful!!