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Baking and decorating cookies for Santa Claus is a big deal in the T&C household, particularly for the kiddos. I have tried several different sugar, or cut-out, cookie recipes, and, I’ve decided my favorite is Paula Deen’s Animal-shaped Sugar Cookies from Paula Deen and Friends. As far as celebrity chef cookbooks go, I favor Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa books and the Lee Brothers, but these sugar cookies turn out perfectly every time. Or, more accurately, year after year.
To see some truly gorgeous cut-outs by a cookie master, visit Pink Martinis and Pearls.

To see some truly gorgeous cut-outs by a cookie master, visit Pink Martinis and Pearls.

We keep the old cookie cutters in an old tartan lunch box.
My great grandmother’s rolling pin, one solid piece of poplar,

the chilled dough, and the marble slab.
“He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.”
That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.”
That’s hardly surprising, is it?
We made extra sugar cookies to frost and decorate this morning for Santa! Yours are wonderful...
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We tried our hand at sugar cookies this year, they looked nowhere near as delicious as yours!
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We colored some icing with green and red food coloring to frost on some "extra special" sugar cookies that a dear friend gave us to decorate. We will see how Santa likes them tonight!! A Very Merry CHRISTMAS to you all.
ReplyDeleteA little birdie would LOVE your Peppermint Meringue Cookies recipe...
ReplyDeleteI love your cookies!! :)
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