Add a little festive fun to your Christmas Sugar cookies this year! Decorate them like Christmas lights! It’s so easy and fun. Get the kiddos to help! These Christmas Lights Cookies are perfect for Cookie exchanges and Christmas parties! They are so simple to decorate, even my son can make them.
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Christmas Lights Cookies Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup flour
- baking powder 1/2 tsp
- Salt
- Butter 1/4 cup
- Sugar 1/4 cup
- 1 egg yolk
- Vanilla 1/2 tsp
- Almond extract ¼ tsp
For icing:
- Powdered sugar 1 cup
- Fresh lemon juice 2 tsp
- Egg white 2 tbsp
For decoration:
- Chocolate 25 g (1 ounce)
- mini M&Ms
Christmas Lights Cookies Directions:
Put flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl. Mix.
Add butter and sugar in another bowl. Mix.
Add egg yolk, vanilla and almond extract. Blend.
Pour in the sifted flour in parts.
Knead the dough. Collect it into a ball.
Roll out the dough into a layer ½ inch thick.
Cut out 12 circles with a cookie cutter.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Bake the cookies in the oven for 10-12 minutes. Cool.
For icing mix lemon juice, egg white, add powdered sugar. Mix until smooth.
Decorate your cookies! Spread icing on the cookies and let them dry.
Make lines with chocolate for the wire part of the lights.
Add mini M&Ms for the lights.
Enjoy!
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Christmas Lights Cookies
Add a little festive fun to your Christmas Sugar cookies this year! Decorate them like Christmas lights! It's so easy and fun. Get the kiddos to help!
Ingredients
- • 3/4 cup flour
- • baking powder 1/2 tsp
- • Salt
- • Butter 1/4 cup
- • Sugar 1/4 cup
- • 1 egg yolk
- • Vanilla 1/2 tsp
- • Almond extract ¼ tsp
- • For icing:
- • Powdered sugar 1 cup
- • Fresh lemon juice 2 tsp
- • Egg white 2 tbsp
- • For decoration:
- • Chocolate 25 g (1 ounce)
- • mini M&Ms
Instructions
1. Put flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl. Mix.
2. Add butter and sugar in another bowl. Mix.
3. Add egg yolk, vanilla and almond extract. Blend.
4. Pour in the sifted flour in parts. Knead the dough. Collect it into a ball.
5. Roll out the dough into a layer ½ inch thick.
6. Cut out 12 circles.
7. Preheat the oven to (200 degrees Celsius) 400 degrees . Bake the cookies in the oven for 10-12 minutes. Cool.
8.For icing mix lemon juice, egg white, add powdered sugar.
9 Decorate your cookies with the icing, chocolate stripes and M&Ms for the lights!
Enjoy!
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