Christmas cookies, baked with love and gifted from a friend really do taste better than anything I can make! This year, our dear friend Jennifer Lynch gifted us with a platter of cookies too beautiful to eat (well, almost, we will be digging in Christmas eve). She also wanted to share some of her Christmas crafting with you all. In her words…..
“At the home ruled by Jane & Emma we’ve been busy crafting Christmas presents for the holiday season… Over the years we try to celebrate the home-made Christmas, which starts to definitely make life busier, when every holiday they are looking for home made surprises – I’m beginning to wonder about setting expectations, but I love the fact that they treasure those hand crafted items. So what’s been on our Christmas gift giving list:
Nasturtium Seeds – hand picked by the girls from their garden this summer, and packaged up in beautifully hand painted envelopes with their artwork – they are ready to spread some gardening joy.
Fire starters – pinecones, hand dipped in beeswax and beautifully wrapped packages to make our families lives a little easier & warmer this holiday season.
& Home Baked treats… We wanted to share our favorite recipe this holiday season! (So far we’ve made about 20 dozen of these cookies – good thing many of our friends are helping us eat them!)
Easy Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
1 ½ cup butter, softenend 5 cups all purpose flour
2 cups white sugar 2 tsp baking powder
4 eggs 1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions
- In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
- Preheat over to 375 degrees F. Roll out dough on floured surface to ¼ to ½ inch thick. Cut into desired shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart of lined cookie sheet.
- Bake for 7-8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool Completely. Decorate with Royal Icing, and edible sparkles – as desired!
Happy Holidays from Jennifer!