When it comes to Christmas Cookies… we don’t play around.

My mother and I take it quite seriously and each year we try to up the anty with superb designs and taste.

You may have seen my post about our planning session that took place… in NOVEMBER.

I told you… we aint playin’.

This year we have been considering two new Sugar Cookie recipes.

The first one is from this spectacular little book called “Cookie Craft Christmas.”

The other recipe we’ve been considering is from this blog I stumbled upon a couple weeks ago.

So last week when I knew “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and Disney’s “Prep and Landing” were coming on abc, I thought it would be a good night for a trial run of making Christmas cookies, to see how the recipes taste.

It would also be a good trial run to give my 3 and 7 year old some practice for the big event… the real event… the Cookie Baking Extravaganza!

I told you… we don’t play around.

We plot, we plan… we even practice… and then… We Attack!

You can see all of it here next week.

So for our cookie making practice we made some dough, used some cookie cutters, and tossed on some random sprinkles hiding in the cupboards.

We also left some un-sprinkled so we could try a new icing recipe and get some icing practice.

We baked, we decorated, we tasted and we decided…

We will be using some of the inspirational ideas from the “Cookie Craft Christmas” book. Very Cute!

And… we will be using the Sugar Cookie and icing recipes from “i am baker”.

The cookies were delicious and so was the icing. We liked the taste and texture of these cookies better than the ones made from the recipe in the book. The “i am baker” recipe was also much easier to work with. The dough was soft enough to roll out easily, but the cookies all still held their shapes perfectly. They were also easy to cook all the way through, without ending up with any browning on the edges whatsoever.

The finished result was soft, fluffy, a bit chewy, and lightly sweet in a way that is complimented perfectly by lots of icing. That is EXACTLY what we need because  we’ve got a lot of fancy decorating to do!

Thank You Amanda for generously sharing your delicious Sugar Cookie recipe with the world!

If you want Amanda’s Sugar Cookie and Icing recipes, check out this cute Christmas post on her main blog  here.

Stay tuned next week for my post that will be titled “Christmas Cookies – The Main Event.”

It’s going to be… really… very…. super…. completely…

Just come back and see!

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