Every year the kids and I make some kind of Christmas cookies. I mean, what’s Christmas without a jar filled with cookies to snack on? And since “Santa” is forced to eat the cookies every year, we make sure that they taste delicious. The subtle fragrance of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg add so much flavor to these easy classic cookies. They are also amazing with a scoop of ice cream sandwiched between them. It makes for such an awesome ice cream sandwich and is a great festive snack or dessert to throw together in minutes.
Ingredients and Substitutions
This recipe is incredibly simple but delivers a light, buttery cookie almost like shortbread. That’s what makes this the best sugar cookie recipe, ever. The spiced sugar is a delicious addition but can easily be replaced with frosting/royal icing if you want to make Christmas sugar cookies in different shapes.
Butter. I use salted and only use a quarter of a teaspoon of salt. Alternatively, use unsalted butter. Sugar. Egg. Vanilla extract. Almond extract. Flour. All purpose flour or cake flour. Cornstarch. Salt.
For the spiced sugar. You can use any cookie frosting of your choice, too.
Caster sugar. Ground cinnamon. Nutmeg. Cardamom. Ginger.
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