Christmas Cookies!

 Amara and I made Christmas cookies recently. We made my favorite sugar cookies. I don't much care for the hard ones you usually cut out with the cookie cutters and frost. The recipe I use is my grandmother's (and her grandmother's before her, not quite sure how far back it goes). It makes light, fluffy cake-like sugar cookies. Then you top them with Christmas colored sugar or sprinkles. The cookies are great warm, cool, with milk, by themselves, and even freeze very well to save for holiday events later on in the month. They are also much easier to whip up and decorate than the cookie cutter ones that you spend an eternity frosting to look pretty. It also just feels like Christmas to me since we made these cookies every single year as kids. You could easily adjust these to whatever holiday you'd like by changing the sprinkles you use, but I generally save these as special Christmastime cookies. I know this post is a little late too. I meant to get it up before Christmas, but life got hectic.

Sugar Cookies
3 eggs
1 cup Crisco
1 and 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup buttermilk ( or substitute with 1 cup milk plus 1 teaspoon white vinegar because who has buttermilk?)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
pinch of table salt
4 cups flour
2 tablespoons vanilla extract

It doesn't have any mixing order directions. I usually cream the Crisco and sugar. Then add the eggs and vanilla. Then pour in the buttermilk (or substitute), and lastly the dry ingredients. That's the order most other recipes use, so figured it was a good strategy. I've done it randomly too, and they always turn out good.

Preheat oven to 375

Then drop them by the tablespoon full onto a cookie sheet. Decorate with your choice of sprinkles or colored sugar. Bake for 10-12 minutes. They are delicate cookies and can burn quick, so set your timer for 9 or 10 minutes and watch them closely

Some of ours got A LOT of sugar on them due to my little helper, but they were still delicious and just gave her that much more of a sugar buzz lol!

Nomming down on her hard work. Then just looking like she is about to get into some trouble...