Colorful Christmas Cookies #Christmas #Cookies

Looking to upload a few shade on your Christmas cookie tray this yr? strive one (or all) of those recipes!

I've blanketed some approaches that I exchange up the conventional spritz recipe, plus a a laugh peppermint blossom and some soft, cream cheese cookies. all of them comprise a variety of color to add some brightness to your vacation!

On occasion I mix my vanilla into my egg, which i love to break before including right into a batter, and you may see that in the pinnacle proper photo.

I brought the food coloring to the wet elements, after they were combined. I used liquid food coloring this time, but have extensively utilized gel meals coloring in the past. The flour will lighten the coloration a touch, so make it barely darker than you'd like the completed product to be.

Ingredients

• 2 1/3 Cup Flour
• 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1 Large Egg
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
• 1 Cup Softened Butter
• 1 Cup Sugar
• Green Food Coloring
• Nonpareil Sprinkles or Halved Maraschino Cherries

Instructions

1. Cream collectively butter and sugar. blend in egg and vanilla. blend in meals coloring until slightly darker than favored colour.
2. combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. upload to sugar mixture.
3. put dough in cookie press. Press onto ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle nonpareils on tree-shaped cookies and location half a cherry on center of wreath-formed cookies. lightly shake any extra sprinkles off of cookie sheet earlier than baking.
4. Bake at 375°F (a hundred ninety°C) for 7 to nine mins.
5. Makes 6 dozen.