Another option to use my heart shaped cookie cutters on – melted butter sugar cookies.
Another tweak after making some cookies with softened butter and another batch with crisco. These come together quickly and are super soft.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. And, remember to preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla
2 tbs water
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In a bowl, combine butter and sugar. Add egg, water and vanilla. I added some red food color here to make the cookie dough pink. (Totally optional step)
Mix in dry ingredients. If dough seems a little dry, add another tbs or two of water. Sprinkle flour on a flat surface to desired thickness. Cut out cookies.
Place on prepared sheet. Bake 7 to 10 minutes.
These look remarkably similar after baking!
Cool completely. Frost with vanilla frosting.
Store in covered container. Thanks so much for stopping by
I am trying to find different cutout recipes to use my heart shaped cookie cutters, so I thought “why not brown sugar cinnamon sugar? And I was in a bit of a hurry, so I decided to use brown butter too.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also preheat your oven to 375 degrees before baking.
Ingredients list
10 tbs butter
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
2 tbs egg beaters or egg whites (or one half of an egg
2 tbs water
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. In a pan, over medium low heart, brown butter. It takes 10 minutes or so and looks like this.
Pour in a bowl and let it sit at room temp for 10 minutes. Blend in brown sugar. Mix in water and egg beaters/egg whites/half egg. Blend in dry ingredients. If dough seems a little dry, add another tbs or 2 of water. Sprinkle fllour a flat surface to whatever thickness you want. cut out cookies.
place on prepared sheet.
Bake 7 to 9 minutes. Cool completely.
Frost or make sandwich cookies. I used a buttercream frosting and added cinnamon sugar.
With Valentine’s day approaching, I am trying to make as many different varieties of cutout cookies using my heart cookie cutters. These use crisco in the cookies and you can leave them plain, sprinkle sugar on top before baking or frost them, after they are completely cooled,with a simple vanilla frosting.
1 1/3 cups crisco
1 1/2 ,cups sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tbs plus 1 tsp milk
2 cups flour
11/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Sprinkle a clean, flat surface with flour. Cut out cookies and stagger on prepared sheet.
For NFL week 18 and the final regular season home game at the place i have always called Rich Stadium, I present cinnamon sugar football cutout sandwiches with brown butter filling. I love my football cutout.
I have not been to a game there in a long time, but have a lot of wonderful memories. I went to my first game at age 7 with my family. I think we went to about a game a year until 8th grade. From Olean, we traveled up 16 through all the small towns. We stopped once so my dad could buy my brother a football so they could play catch in the parking lot. That little plaza is still there. My dad, who passed away in 2013, is the reason I love the Bills as much as I do. He would really enjoy these Josh teams. It would have been fun to dissect games with him. He will have a great seat in heaven when we win the Super Bowl. A lot of people pooh pooh the Bills and have no faith. I prefer to keep it positive. I acknowledge weaknesses and acting like Eyeore is not fun. Fandom is much more enjoyable.
I think that unless you grew up a Bills fan or married into it, it is hard to understand the connection with the team and even that building.
Anyways, onto the cookies….
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. If you chill the dough, take it out a few hours before baking because that butter chills it up firm. Next time I might not chill the dough at all.
Ingredients list
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, sugar and salt. Add egg and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. If dough seems dry, add a tbs or two of water. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Lightly flour a flat surface and roll dough to desired thickness (I like mine on the thick side). Cut out footballs. Stagger on prepared sheet.
Bake 7 to 8 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Brown butter frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter
2 to 3 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Milk
Directions – place butter in a fry pan and cook over medium heat until brown specs appear.
Place browned butter in bowl. Mix in powdered sugar, then vanilla. Add enough milk to get the consistency you want. Place a scoop between 2 cookies. Store in covered container.
For my last Christmas cutout cookies recipe for this season, here are the traditional sugar cookies. I made most of them into cookie sandwiches so people can actually tell what they are.
This is a recipe from a family friend, one that brings back so many wonderful memories. I used a traditional buttercream frosting recipe.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Make sure you flour your surface enough to roll out the dough and sprinkle flour in your cookie cutters too. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 1/2 cups crisco
1 1/3 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
4 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
Directions – in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar. Blend in eggs well. Add vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. You can chill the door in a covered container for a few hours if you want. Or bake them right away. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees, and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Flour a flat surface with flour. Roll dough to desired thickness and cut. Place on cookie sheet. Bake 7 to 8 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Buttercream frosting/filling ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar (scooped from container into your measuring cup so you get the right amount)
Milk
In a bowl, cream butter and vanilla. Carefully blend in powdered sugar, a cup at a time. Add enough milk to get consistency you want. Frost or fill sandwich cookies.
I am trying to make as many different cutout cookies for Christmas as I can before Santa arrives on the 25th. So far, I have made gingerbread men, a chocolate chip version, and chocolate version, using regular unsweetened cocoa. Today, I made a black cocoa version.
I used a mix of all purpose flour and cake flour, but you can use just AP flour if you want.
Remember to scoop your flour from their bags into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. I cut out the cookies and then chilled them before baking. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup butter
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup greek yogurt or sour cream
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup cake flour
1/2 cup black cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Blend on greek yogurt. Mix in dry ingredients. Sprinkle flour on a clean surface. Roll dough to desired thickness and cut with cookie cutter. Chill a few hours. When ready to bake, line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place cutouts on sheet, leaving some room.
To celebrate our win over the Bengals (which was pretty stressful), I present gingerbread men/reindeer cookie sandwiches. One way they are gingerbread men,
flip them upside down and they are reindeer.
I colored the filling green for a little holiday pop.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. After you cut out the cookies, i recommend chilling them in for a few hours. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
6 tbs butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into cup
1/2 cup molasses
1 egg
Water
1 tsp vanilla
3 1/4 cups flour
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp ground cloves
Directions – in a bowl, combine butter and brown sugar. Add molasses, egg and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Dough will be crumbly. You may need to add a few tbs of water to make dough easier to use with. Roll ans cut. Chill doughs a few hours. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 8 to 18 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Filling
1 stick butter, partially melted
3 cups powdered sugar
2 tbs milk
1 tsp vanilla
Green food color (optional)
Combine butter, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla. Add food color, if using. Spread between 2 cookies. Store in covered container.
Chiefs- Bills, Mahomes-Allen round 10! Stressful as always, josh played great and Mahomes worked his impossible magic, as usual. I stood the last 5 minutes of the game and am pretty sure I did not breathe. Anyways, to celebrate i made football theme chocolate cutout cookie sandwiches – a football, a helmet and a jersey. And i used a vanilla buttercream for the filling.
Remember to scoop your flour and cocoa from their containers into your measuring up so you get the correct amount. Also, preheat your oven to 350 before baking.
Cookie ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup baking cocoa
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Sprinkle some flour on a clean, flat surface. Roll dough to desired thickness and cut (i prefer mine on the thick side). Place on prepared cookie sheet. They don’t spread a ton, but don’t crowd them on the sheet. Bake 9 to 11 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Filling ingredients
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Milk
In a bowl, combine butter and vanilla. Mix in powdered sugar. Add milk, a tbs at a time, until you get the consistency you want. Place a spoonfuls between two cookies.
One last cutout cookies recipe, using my Halloween cookies cutters. This is a brown sugar cookie recipe, no granulated sugar required.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
3/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. in a bowl, cream butter and brown sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Fold in dry ingredients. Form dough into large ball and divide in half. Sprinkle flour on a clean flat surface. Roll out dough to desired thickness. Cut out your cookies. Place on prepared cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 cups powdered sugar (scooped from your container into your measuring cup)
1 tsp vanilla
Milk
Directions – in a bowl, combine butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Add milk, 1 tbs at a time, until you get the consistency you want. Frost cookies. I sprinkled the frosting tops with Halloween sprinkles.
This is the sugar cookierecipe I use for all my holiday cutout cookies – halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, football ( i know football is not a holiday but if i have cookie cutters for something, it is a holiday for me) This recipe is from a friend of my family. They bring back a lot of wonderful memories of baking with my mom when I was younger. And these were my dad’s favorite cookies and he loved the dough too!
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also, preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.
Ingredients list
1 1/2 cups crisco
1 1/3 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
4 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
A plethora of pumpkins!
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. in a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Slowly blend in dry ingredients. Sprinkle flour on your countertop and roll out dough to desired thickness. Cut out cookies. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 8 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
A gaggle of ghosts
Frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
3 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 to 3 tbs heavy cream (depending on consistency you want)
Food coloring or sprinkles
In a bowl, combine ingredients. Frost cookies and sprinkle with sprinkles. Store in covered container.
cookies by christine 