Spiced Holiday Sugar Cookies

By á-5543

Ingredients

• 2 1/3 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. Ground Nutmeg
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter. softened
• 1 egg
• 2 tsp. Pure Vanilla Extract
• Colorful Cookie icing (recipe follows)

Preparation

Step 1

MIX flour. baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside. Beat sugar and butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla: mix well. Gradually stir in flour mixture on 1ow speed until well mixed. Refrigerate 2 hours or overnight.

R0LL out dough on lightly floured surface to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut into shapes with cookie cutters. Place on greased baking sheets.

BAKE in preheated 375'F oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on baking sheets 1 minute. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.

T0 ICE C00KIES, hold cookie by its edge and dip top of cookie into icing. (Or spoon the icing onto cookie using a teaspoon.) Place iced cookies on wire rack set over foil-covered baking sheet to dry. {The foil-covered baking sheet will catch drips.) To add decorative details to cookies, spoon tinted icing into resealable plastic bag. Snip off a tiny piece of the corner. Squeeze icing through hole in plastic bag to decorate cookies. If desired, colored sugar may be sprinkled onto freshly iced cookies.

Makes 6 dozen 0r 24 (3 cookie) servings.

C0LORFUL COOKIE ICING: Mix 1 cup confectioners sugar, 3 to 4 tsp. milk and 1/2 tsp. Pure Vanilla Extract (Stir in additional milk as needed to thin icing or confectioners sugar to thicken). Place small amount of icing into small shallow bowls, using one bowl for each color desired. Stir drops of assorted food colors into icing until desired shade is reached.