Ingredients

• 1 cup (230g) butter, softened
• 1 cup (192g) sugar
• 1 teaspoon  (5.6g) vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons (7.6g) baking powder
• 1/4 (1.25g) teaspoon salt
• 3 cups (375g) all-purpose flour

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar with a mixer until smooth.
3. Beat in the vanilla extract and egg.
4. In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients a little at a time.
6. When it’s all mixed in, wet your hands and knead it by hand until it’s a good
7. dough consistency.
8. Immediately roll small batches out onto a floured surface to about 1/4″ thick, then cut with cookie cutters. (Don’t chill the dough)
9. Bake at 350F for 8 to 9 minutes.

How to Decorate

The cookies turned out beautifully! Perfectly round, with even colour and no darkening around the edges. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself!

To decorate them, I used Wilton’s Black Gel Icing, Wilton’s White Decorating Icing, and red and brown M&M’s.

Start by using the black gel icing to draw two tiny eyes, pretty much right in the center of the cookie.

Then draw two diagonal lines upwards away from the eyes.

Then more diagonal lines to complete the antlers.

Add a generous dot of white icing where the nose is going to go.

Then gently press on the M&M with the “M” side facing down.

These reindeer sugar cookies are really easy to make and they look ADORABLE! The cookie recipe is so good! Perfectly even cookies, with no chilling required!

Easy peasy!

These reindeer sugar cookies are really easy to make and they look ADORABLE! The cookie recipe is so good! Perfectly even cookies, with no chilling required!

Aren’t they cute!?

These reindeer sugar cookies are really easy to make and they look ADORABLE! The cookie recipe is so good! Perfectly even cookies, with no chilling required!