Big Christmas Cookie Trees!!!
I love the taste and smell of
Christmas Cookies! Do you?
If you love Christmas Cookies
as much as I do here is the
recipe! Enjoy! :)
Big Christmas Cookie Trees
1 package refrigerated sugar cookies (18 ounce)
Creamy vanilla frosting, canned or homemade, about 1 cup.
Green food color
Colored decorator's icing
Assorted decorations, candies
Line 2 large cookie sheets with aluminum foil. Remove half of cookie dough from the package
and refrigerate the rest. Cut dough into 16 slices. Roll 15 of the slices into balls.
Arrange cookie dough balls in a triangle shape, placing balls about 1/4-inch apart in rows of
5,4,3,2, and 1. Shape the last slice and use for the trunk of the tree.
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for about 10 to 14 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool
completely, then repeat for the second tree.
When trees are cooled, peel foil from backs and place on trays. Combine frosting and food
coloring in a small bowl; blend well. Frost cookies. Decorate with tinted icing and desired
candies.
It's Christmas time and some times I like to post
recipes for Christmas recipes! And this time I choose
cookies!!! I haven't made or tried these cookies
but i sure would like too!:~)
Candy Cane Cookies
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons almond flavoring
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
Mix well the shortening and butter, sugar, egg, almond and vanilla. In a separate bowl, mix
flour and salt and add to shortening mixture. Divide dough in half.
Blend red food coloring into one half. Roll 1 teaspoon of the red dough and 1 teaspoon of the
white dough on lightly floured board into 4-inch strips. Place strips side by side and press
lightly together and twist like a rope. Curve top of rope down to look like the handle of a candy
cane. (NOTE: Make one complete cookie at a time. If the dough of one color is shaped first, the
little rolls become to dry to twist.)
Bake 9 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove while still warm. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup
crushed peppermint stick candy and 1/2 cup sugar (optional).
Yield: 2 dozen
Candy Cane Cookies!
