Two Uniquely Flavored Sugar Cookie Recipes For The Holiday Season

Food & Cooking Blog

Sugar cookies are delicious, but do you ever find yourself wishing that they had some more unique flavors? This holiday season, serve your friends and family sugar cookies made with one of these two recipes. They'll love the variation.

Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

Made with ground cinnamon, these sugar cookies may remind you of snickerdoodles. They have a tender, slightly crisp texture.

Ingredients:

• 1 stick of unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Cream the butter and the sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg and vanilla until combined, scraping down the bowl partway through mixing. In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, and mix until uniform. 

Roll the dough into a ball, and refrigerate it for one hour. Divide the dough in half, keeping one half in the fridge while you work with the other half. Roll the first half of the dough out on a floured surface until it is about 1/4 inch thick. Cut into shapes with cookie cutters. Re-roll the remaining dough, and then repeat this process with the other dough in the fridge.

Bake your cookies at 375 degrees F for 10–12 minutes or until lightly brown around the edges. Cool on a wire rack, and frost if desired.

Anise Sugar Cookies

If you love anise, you will adore these cookies made with real anise oil. They're lovely with coffee in the morning.

Ingredients:

• 1 stick of unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 egg
• 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon anise oil
• 1/4 teaspoon anise extract
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg, anise extract, and anise oil, and mix well. Add the flour, salt, baking powder, and cream of tartar, and mix until well combined, scraping down the bowl partway through mixing.

Place the dough in the fridge to chill for 1 hour. Roll half of the dough out on a floured surface until it's about 1/4 inch thick. Cut with cookie cutters of your choice. Re-roll the leftover dough, and repeat with the other half of the dough.

Bake at 375 degrees F for 10 - 12 minutes or until light brown. Enjoy!

For more ideas for holiday sugar cookies, check out different cookbooks and food blogs, like from ​Tori Avey.

29 August 2017