Best 7 Merry Maker Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipes

MERRY MAKER CHRISTMAS SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix sugar and butter.
• Add eggs and flavorings; mix well.
• Mix dry ingredients together, and blend in to other mixture.
• Divide dough into several parts.
• Tint each a different color.
• Make as many different colors as you like, but make sure they are really different to get the strongest contrast.
• Refrigerate dough for two or three hours.
• Take each color of dough and roll into small balls.
• Place an assortment of different colors next to each other, making sure no two of the same colors touch.
• Roll together, until about 1/8-inch thick.
• Cut as many cookies as possible from dough, because if you reroll it, it will smear together.
• Or, you can make a few at a time by rolling only a few balls at a time.
• Bake cookies at 375°F for 7-8 minutes, or until lightly golden on a lightly greased cookie sheet.
• These cookies freeze well.

CHRISTMAS SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Beat in the sour cream, honey and vanilla. Combine the dry ingredients; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and chill for 2 hours or until easy to handle. , On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with floured 3-in. cookie cutters. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. , Bake at 325° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool. , In a microwave-safe bowl, melt white coating; stir until smooth. Stir in food coloring; drizzle over cookies.

MERRY BERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large microwave safe bowl.
• Add the sugar and mix thoroughly. Let the bowl sit on the counter while you do the next step.
• Melt the jam in the microwave or in a saucepan over low heat. Once it's the consistency of syrup, mix it in with the butter and sugar.
• Add the eggs, baking soda, and salt, stirring after each addition.
• Add the flour and mix thoroughly. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. (Overnight is even better.).
• When your ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees, rack in the middle position.
• Roll the chilled dough into small walnut-sized balls with your hands.
• Put 1/3 cup sugar in a small bowl and roll the balls in it.
• Place them on a greased standard-sized cookie sheet, 12 cookies per sheet.
• Flatten the dough balls with a greased spatula.
• Make a small indentation with your thumb or index finger in the center of each cookie. Fill the indentation with about 1/8 teaspoon of jam.
• Bake the cookies for 10 to 12 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Let them cool for minutes on the cookie sheet, and then transfer them to a wire rack to finish cooling.

SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl. In a separate bowl, beat butter and sugar with a mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Gradually mix in flour mixture. Turn out dough, and divide in half. Flatten each half into a disk, and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour or overnight.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds of oven. Let one disk of dough stand at room temperature just until soft enough to roll, about 10 minutes. Roll out dough on a lightly floured work surface to just under 1/4-inch thick, adding more flour as needed to keep dough from sticking. Chill in refrigerator until firm, about 30 minutes. Cut out cookies using desired cutters or templates. Transfer to parchment-lined baking sheets as you work. Roll out scraps, and repeat once. Repeat with remaining disk of dough. Chill cookies in freezer until very firm, about 15 minutes.
• Bake cookies, switching positions of sheets and rotating halfway through, until edges turn golden, 15 to 18 minutes. Let cool on sheets on wire racks. Decorate with Royal Icing.

CLASSIC CHRISTMAS SUGAR COOKIE CUTOUTS

Steps:

• In large bowl, mix 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, the butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla, almond extract and egg until well blended. Stir in flour, baking soda and cream of tartar. Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours.
• Heat oven to 375°F. Divide dough in half. On lightly floured surface, roll each half of dough 3/16 inch thick. Cut into assorted shapes with cookie cutters, or cut around patterns traced from storybook illustrations. If cookies are to be hung as decorations, make a hole in each 1/4 inch from top with end of plastic straw. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake 7 to 8 minutes or until light brown. Remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• In medium bowl, beat all frosting ingredients until smooth and spreadable. Tint with food color if desired. Frost and decorate cookies as desired with frosting and colored sugars.

CHRISTMAS SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar.
• Beat in the egg, sour cream, honey and vanilla.
• Combine the dry ingredients; gradually add to creamed mixture (if the dough is too sticky add in a little more flour, add in just enough to hold together).
• Cover and chill for 2 hours or 24 hours or until dough is easy to handle.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-inch thickness.
• Cut with 3-inch cookie cutters dipped in flour.
• Place 1-in apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 325° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Remove to wire racks and cool.
• Melt candy coating; stir in food colouring.
• Drizzle over cookies.

MERRY CHRISTMAS COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add eggs, flour, soda and cinnamon.
• Add milk then fruit mixture and nuts.
• Drop tea- spoonful on greased cookie sheet. Bake 5 minutes at 300 degrees.
• Makes more than a hundred.