Spiced Holiday Sugar Cookies

Name: Spiced Holiday Sugar Cookies
Prep time: 2 h 30 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 72
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking soda; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 1 teaspoon McCormick® Cinnamon, Ground; 237 milliliters confectioners sugar; 1 egg; 552 milliliters flour; 3 drops McCormick® Assorted Food Colors and Egg Dye, or more if desired; 296 milliliters granulated sugar; 3 teaspoons milk, or more as needed; 0 teaspoons McCormick® Nutmeg, Ground; 0 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoons McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract

Need a vegetarian dessert? Spiced Holiday Sugar Cookies could be a great recipe to try. One portion of this dish contains approximately 1g of protein, 3g of fat, and a total of 58 calories. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 72. It is perfect for Christmas. If you have baking soda, nutmeg, egg, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in medium bowl. Set aside. Beat granulated sugar and butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.

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Granulated Sugar

Baking Soda

Cinnamon

Butter

Nutmeg

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add egg and vanilla; mix well. Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until well mixed. Refrigerate dough2hours or overnight until firm.

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Vanilla

All Purpose Flour

Egg

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

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Oven

Roll out dough on lightly floured surface* to 1/8-inch thickness.

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Dough

Roll

Cut into shapes with favorite cookie cutters.

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Cookie Cutter

Place on greased baking sheets.

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Baking Sheet

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on baking sheets 1 minute.

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Remove to wire racks; cool completely.

For the Icing, mix all ingredients except food colors. (Stir in additional milk as needed to thin icing or more confectioners' sugar to thicken, if needed.)

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Powdered Sugar

Icing

Milk

Place small amount of icing into small shallow bowls, using one bowl for each color desired. Stir drops of food color into icing until desired shade is reached.

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Food Color

Icing

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Bowl

To ice cookies, hold cookie by its edge and dip top of cookie into icing. (Or spoon the icing onto cookie using a teaspoon.)

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Icing

Dip

Ice

Place iced cookies on wire rack set over foil-covered baking sheet to dry. (The foil-covered baking sheet will catch drips.) To add decorative details to cookies, spoon tinted icing into resealable plastic bag. Snip off a tiny piece of the corner. Squeeze icing through hole in plastic bag to decorate cookies. If desired, Colored Sugar may be sprinkled onto freshly iced cookies.

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Decorating Sugar

Icing

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Baking Sheet

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