Christmas Lights Butter Cookies

Posted on December 3, 2018

Hey there everyone, This weekend I finished decorating the Christmas tree, I put up a few Christmas decorations and the atmosphere in the house changed to a much cozier, warmer feel.  I still have a few more things to do but I should be finished soon.  (Love all these colorful lights) 

I made a small batch of Butter Christmas Cookies yesterday, but I wanted to decorate the cookies with something Christmassy.   I searched for decorating ideas and found this Christmas light decoration on Pinterest which I thought was cute from dessertsfortwo.com.  The decoration on this bloggers cookies is different, she used M&Ms where I used sprinkles to make it a bit more colorful.   I did not have any powdered sugar so I made the topping with White and Pink Fondant Icing, the cookie recipe is great because I have been making these  each Christmas.



I gave it a few tries before the cookies looked decent enough to post hahahha.   I did send a photo to my Pastry Chef friend and she liked it, so I guess I did a good job on my first try in decorating cookies. 🙂

Have a great week everyone!!! 

Ingredients:

3 cups All Purpose Flour

4 Eggs

1/2 cup Butter

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

1 cup Sugar

1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract 

Decorating Ingredients:

Round Cookie Cutter 

White or Pink Fondant Icing

Red, Blue, Yellow Tube colors

Sprinkles

Preparation:

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Add dry ingredients into mixing bowl.

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Add Eggs, Butter, Vanilla Extract

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Mix until ingredients become  a soft dough.  Once the dough is ready, place into the fridge for 30 minutes.

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Roll out dough with a roller, 

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use a round cookie cutter, or any cookie cutter of your choice.  Once you have cut out your cookies place them onto a piece of baking paper that you have set in your baking pan.  Bake cookies for 40 minutes at 160.  Once baked set aside to cool off.

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Roll out the Fondant Icing with a smaller roller and use the cookie cutter used for cutting the cookies.

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Take any tube color and draw a line, starting from the top left hand side all the way to the right side.

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Spinkle, colorful spinkles on top of the cookies.

You can make any type of decoration you love, this is something I found cute and tried it out for the first time myself.

Kali Orexi!!! 🙂

By foodzesty

Sophie Zographos

Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

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