One Sugar Cookie Recipe, 5 Different Cookies
Heat, then strain, preserves, or use jelly for a clear, gemlike effect. Slightly cool for smoothest application. Add sugar, nonpareils, or dragees before baking; gently press into dough to help adhere. Spread a thin layer of jelly on the base cookie and on the back of the top cutout cookie. Lightly press the cookies together. Fill the cutout area to the top of the cookie edge with jelly.
Whether you're leaving cookies out for Santa, making them for a swap with friends, or giving them as gifts, "the holidays are just a cookie time of year," says Cheryl Slocum, Country Living's senior food and entertaining editor. To honor that long-held and fondly remembered tradition without spending a week in the kitchen, we found a way to achieve just as much variety with a single, lightly spiced sugar cookie dough that can be colored, cut, shaped, and layered into myriad forms.
Get the Basic Sugar Cookie Recipe and check out 10 More Cookie Variations.
Do you have a favorite cookie to bake for the holidays?
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