Christmas Ornament Cookies

These Christmas ornament cookies are a fun treat to make with kids.

These Christmas ornament cookies are big, sparkly, and delicious.

I'm not very good at intricate dessert decorating. The most ambitious cookie recipe I've ever tried was this one for Valentine cookies with royal icing. While I vowed to get better at using royal icing, I have totally procrastinated.

Instead, I turned my attention back to sprinkles! They make everyone smile, including my grandsons.

My grandsons are now 15 (aaack!) and 11. We spend less time in the kitchen because they don't require as much "babysitting," but we have wonderful memories of baking together.

Pretty much all of the projects involved sprinkles. In fact, the youngest one once tried "drinking" sprinkles from the bottle when I turned my back.

One of my favorite projects with them was making their dad an Anaheim Ducks birthday cake.

In fact, I just browsed through my photos and came across so many pics of the boys making and presenting cakes for their dad's birthday.

Check out the tiny chocolate balls on this one.

I adore this one with the disk sprinkles on top.

I love this mini cake with the yellow swath of sprinkles in the middle. I think it was supposed to be a Ducks logo too.

We also made little mini baked donuts a few times .... with sprinkles of course!

And cookies with sprinkles! (P.S. Sorry about all of the photos but I could not possible choose a favorite!)

If you consider royal icing a royal pain, try sprinkles. They make everything pretty!

After you bake the ornament cookies (or any cutout cookie), let the kids drizzle some powdered sugar and vanilla icing over the ornaments and go to town with the sprinkles. They will have so much fun.

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Dessert

American

Yield: Varies depending on the size of the cookie cutterAuthor: Karen Kerr

Christmas Ornament Cookies

ingredients

Cookie Dough

• 3 cups (12 3/4 ounces) unbleached all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup salted butter, cold and cut into small cubes
• 1 egg
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Icing

• 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted through a mesh sieve
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract or clear vanilla flavoring
• Water, milk, or cream to thin the icing (add by teaspoon until the glaze has reached a thick syrupy  consistency)
• Sprinkles!!

instructions

To Make the Cookies

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. 
2. Whisk together the flour and baking powder in a medium bowl. 
3. In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and the sugar until fluffy. Beat in the egg and the extracts. Gradually add in the flour and beat until just combined. 
4. Knead the dough by hand for about 30 seconds and then roll it out to 1/4 to 3/8 inch thick. Cut with the cookie cutter of your choice, gather up the scraps and re-roll to cut more cookies. 
5. Place the cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake, one sheet at a time, for 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the size and thickness of the cookies. Cool the cookies on the pan. 

To Decorate the Cookies

1. Mix the powdered sugar, vanilla, and just enough water, milk, or cream to create a thick but syrupy glaze. Drizzle the glaze over the cookies and add sprinkles. 
2. Let the cookies dry. Once the glaze has hardened, store them in an airtight container. 

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