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.
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.
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.
The Frozen Four begins tomorrow on ESPN2 (5 pm and 8 pm eastern), and the Stanley Cup will be on campus at ESPN Friday. So to celebrate, I made puck cookies – soft chocolate sugar cutout cookies shaped like pucks. Some are frosted with chocolate frosting and since I didn’t make enough of it, I topped the rest with melted Hershey kisses.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount (same goes for the baking cocoa). Also preheat your oven before baking for the best cookies.
Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour (scooped from flour bag into measuring cup so you get the correct amount)
1/2 cup unsweetened baking cocoa (scooped from the container into measuring cup)
1 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. in a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Blend in egg and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients. Flour a flattened surface and rolling pin. Roll and cut. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on it. Bake 9 to 11 minutes. Cool completely
Frosting list
3 cups powdered sugar
4 tbs water
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp cornstarch syrup
3/4 cup dark chocolate chips, melted
Directions – in a bowl, mix powdered sugar, water, vanilla and corn syrup. Blend in melted chips. Frost cookies. Store in covered container.
Wrapping up my Christmas cookie cutouts with a chocolate chip version. These are awesome and a fun variation of cutouts. Use mini chocolate chips to make it easier to use your cookie cutters!
Honestly, I make sandwich cookies with cutouts because my decorating skills are a disaster!
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 for 20 minutes before baking so it cycles to the right temp.
Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 tbs water
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
4 cups flour
2 tsp cornstarch
1/8 tsp baking powder
1 cup mini chocolate chip
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. In a bowl, cream sugar and butter. Add eggs, water and vanilla. Slowly blend in dry ingredients. Fold in chips. Sprinkle your countertop with flour. Roll out the dough and cut. Place cutouts on prepared sheets. Bake 6 to 8 minutes, depending on thickness of cookies. Do not bake longer. Cool and frost or use frosting between 2 cookies for sandwich cookies.
In honor of NHL opening night tomorrow (Tuesday), I made flourless brownie “pucks” covered in melted chocolate. I baked flourless brownies in a 9×13 pan. Let them cool, used the top of a glass to cut out pucks, then used scraps of the remaining dough to form mini pucks and topped them with melted chocolate. Happy hockey!
Remember to preheat your oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes before baking so it cycles to the right temp.
Ingredients list
10 tbs butter
2 cups dark chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
4 tbs baking cocoa
6 tbs cornstarch
Directions- line a 9×13 baking pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes before baking. In a microwave safe bowl, combine chips and butter and microwave in 45 second increments until you can stir smooth. Add sugar. Mix in eggs, one at a time. Stir in vanilla. Fold in cocoa and cornstarch. Spread evenly into pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes – toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely. Spray the rim of a round glass with Pam and cut out pucks.
Top with melted chocolate. Let set. Store in covered container.
cookies by christine 