Grandma’s Sugar Cookies

Recipe from Jenny Gonzales- Grandma -Mother-N-Law

We all have that special tradition tied with holidays. Growing up I do not remember making sugar cookies at Christmas.

I do remember my sister and me making icing with powder sugar and milk and dipping our vanilla wafers in it.

We strung popcorn for the Christmas tree and made Christmas candy that looked like glass and trash. Trash was the Chex cereal and spices Granny cooked in the oven

Sugar cookies were brought into my life when I met my husband. His mom and sister made them each year and passed out boxes to everyone in the family.

When my kids were old enough to decorate the cookies it was game on for our creative side. I supervised, but they had free reign when it came to
dipping and decorating.

Now that they are older, no one really helps since they are working or busy. I keep it simple, one color dip and at the end rainbow everything with icing splatter.
They still taste the same as a perfectly decorated cookie.

I usually double or sometimes triple this recipe. Depending on if I am handing them out as presents.

I have started making a single batch for other holidays too. This is one of my husband’s favorite cookies or desserts, besides his apple pie. So this Easter, he is getting his sugar cookies.

Ingredients

• 1/4 c milk

• 1/2 tsp vanilla

• 1 egg

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 2 1/4 c flour

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 1/2 cup butter

• 1 cup sugar

Directions

Preheat Oven to 375 degrees

Cream butter and sugar.
Add in eggs, vanilla, and milk. Mix well.
Add in flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix well
Chill for 2 hours in the refrigerator
Dust rolling surface with a handful of flour.
Roll out chilled dough to 1/4 inch thick.
Cut out cookies with your cookie cutter.
Place cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet
Bake in your preheated oven for 7-9 minutes. You want them crisp not browned.
Take the remaining dough and roll it out again and cut your cookies.
Let cool before icing the cookies.

Icing - Ingredient and Directions

• 1 bag of powder sugar

• food color

• About 1 cup of milk - enough to make it thick enough to stay on the cookie and thin enough to dry and run slightly over the edges. The thicker you make it you can spread it on, instead of dipping it.

Pour powder sugar into a large mixing bowl. Use a handheld mixer to blend powder sugar and milk. Start with a 1/2 cup of milk and blend in more milk to you have your desired consistency of icing.

Icing consistency

Once you have your consistency. Pour into separate bowls for your colors. Add drops of food color and mix.

Dip each cookie into icing let drip off cookie into a bowl and then place on a cooling rack to dry.

When completely dry, store in an air-tight container.

Updating recipe, I forgot to put in oven temperature. I created a reel on Instagram for our Christmas cookies this year and how the process goes.