Design Crafters

This Christmas Eve, start a tradition with your family by making Christmas butter cookies as a family.  Each year, since I was a little girl, my mother and I would bake these cookies on either Christmas Eve of the day before.  It is a fun, easy way to spend some relaxing quality time before the hectic holidays begin. Here is what you will need:

• 1 cup butter

• 1 cup white sugar

• 1 egg

• 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Here is what you are going to do:

1. To begin, cream together the butter and white sugar in a large bowl, until light and fluffy.
2. Next, beat in the egg, then stir in the vanilla.
3. Combine the flour and salt, and stir into the sugar mixture. Cover dough, and chill for at least one hour.
4. Chill cookie sheets, and preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
5. Press dough out onto ungreased, chilled cookie sheets and bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly golden at the edges. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.

 Happy Holidays!

To follow suit with my holiday homemade sugar cookies recipes yesterday, today I am excited to share my recipe for Holiday Sugared Nuts.They are a great treat to have around the house, and are a wonderful addition to a holiday party.  Here’s what you will need…

For a fun spin on the recipe, use a variety of nuts (walnuts, almonds, macadamia, etc).