Christmas Cut Out Cookies. Cut out with Christmas cookie cutters of your choice. Using a floured spatula, transfer cookies to greased baking sheets. Decorate cookies with frosting and colored sugars.

Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight). Make and bake cookies as directed in recipe. Place baked unfrosted cookies between layers of waxed paper and place in freezer container. You can cook Christmas Cut Out Cookies using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Christmas Cut Out Cookies

Prepare 1 cup of butter.
You need 2 of eggs, beaten.
Prepare 1 cup of sugar.
It's 1 tsp of vanilla.
You need 1/2 cup of nuts.
You need 2 1/2 cup of sifted flour.
You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
You need 1 tsp of cinnamon.
Prepare as needed of Icing and sprinkles,.

Flat baking sheets are the best choice for making cut-out cookies. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Place cookies at least one inch apart onto the prepared cookie sheets. Re-roll any scrap pieces of sugar cookie dough and cut out more cookies as needed.

Christmas Cut Out Cookies step by step

Cream together butter, eggs, vanilla and sugar..
Separately, mix together flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Slowly mix in the dry ingredients into wet. Mix in nuts..
Roll out dough to about 1/2 a centimeter and cut out using a cookie cutter as desired. Feel free to re-roll out scraps to use all the dough..
Bake for 10 minutes at 375 on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Let cookies cool before adding icing and sprinkles..

In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Combine flour, cinnamon, baking powder salt, nutmeg and cloves; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. In a bowl, stir together flour and baking powder. In another bowl, beat butter with sugar until fluffy and light. Cut out sugar cookies aren't just for Christmas.