Butter Cut Out Cookies - Dee Dee's

Name: Butter Cut Out Cookies - Dee Dee's
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 to 5 dozen cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 lb butter, room temperature; 2 c sugar; 3 eggs; 6 c self rising flour; 1/4 tsp salt, optional (self rising flour already has salt in it); 1 tsp almond extract (or flavoring of your choice); a few drops of anise oil, optional (i use this in christmas cookies); FROSTING; 1 stick butter, room temperature; 1 box confectioners' sugar; 1 tsp almond extract (or flavoring of your choice); 3 Tbsp milk; food colorings of your choice; GLAZE; 1 c powdered sugar; 1 plus Tbsp milk; 1 Tbsp corn syrup; 1/4 tsp almond extract (or flavoring of your choice); food colorings of your choice; seedless raspberry jam (filling for a sandwich cookie)

By Diane Atherton
@DeeDee2011

Whether it's Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Easter, Valentines or for a birthday these are the cookies we love the best.

A good friend and I starting baking these in the early 70's. A mutual friend had shared her grandmothers family recipe with us. We continued baking when our daughters came along and now I bake these for and with my grand kids.

Young or old, you will love these cookies. I promise!

Rating:

★★★★★ 3 votes5

Comments:

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Serves:

4 to 5 dozen cookies

Prep:

35 Min

Cook:

15 Min

Method:

Bake

Ingredients

1 lb

butter, room temperature
2 c

sugar
3

eggs
6 c

self rising flour
1/4 tsp

salt, optional (self rising flour already has salt in it)
1 tsp

almond extract (or flavoring of your choice)
·

a few drops of anise oil, optional (i use this in christmas cookies)
FROSTING
1 stick

butter, room temperature
1 box

confectioners' sugar
1 tsp

almond extract (or flavoring of your choice)
3 Tbsp

milk
·

food colorings of your choice
GLAZE
1 c

powdered sugar
1 plus Tbsp

milk
1 Tbsp

corn syrup
1/4 tsp

almond extract (or flavoring of your choice)
·

food colorings of your choice
·

seedless raspberry jam (filling for a sandwich cookie)
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How to Make Butter Cut Out Cookies - Dee Dee's

Step-by-Step

Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy; add eggs one at a time. Add vanilla. NOTE: If making Christmas Cookies add the Anise Oil.
Stir salt into flour; add to butter and sugar mixture 1 cup at a time. NOTE: This will be a stiff dough.
Place dough in freezer for 1/2 hour. This will make dough easier to work with.
Flour the surface you will be working on and flatten dough onto the floured surface; lightly dust top of dough. Roll out and cut into desired shapes.
Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 14 minutes. Do not over bake. Allow cookies to cool 5 minutes on cookie sheets before transferring to wire rack to finish cooling.
Directions for Frosting:
Mix all ingredients together. Spread on cookies.

NOTE: Add candy sprinkles if you like but keep in mind these cookies are very good with just the frosting.
Directions for Glaze:
Place all ingredients, except the food coloring, into a medium sized bowl; whisk to combine. You want a thick syrup. Add more powdered sugar to thicken, and more milk to thin.
Add the food coloring, stir until well combined.
Pour the icing into a condiment bottle. Be sure to put the cap on to ensure it doesn't dry out.
Repeat steps for each additional color.
To decorate: cover cookie with glaze (your choice of color). For patterns and designs, pipe a different color onto the cookie while it is still wet, or pipe another color on, after it has dried (for 5 minutes). Choose technique depending on the look you perfer.

NOTE: for a sandwich cookie, spread raspberry jam between cookies before decorating.