These easy-to-make cut-out cookies provide the perfect base for decorating with this shiny glaze.
Decorating sugar cookies is always at the top of our family’s holiday checklist. It’s one of my favorite traditions from my childhood, sitting around the dining room table with my brothers and having finger-licking access to all the colored frostings and sprinkles!
Today, my own kids also love to make and decorate cookies for Christmas. To be honest, I haven’t always made the cookies from scratch like my mom does. Sometimes we buy the refrigerated dough and packaged frosting to cut steps and get us closer to the real fun of decorating and eating the cookies. However, I recently had the chance to make my mom’s recipe for Sugar Cookie Cutouts and Glaze with her and realized it’s not that difficult or time-consuming to make cutouts and the frosting from scratch.
This recipe calls for chilling the dough for at least an hour before you roll it out, but that can be a good time to prepare the frosting and gather all your sprinkles and colored sugars.
Then, let the finger licking begin!
