How do you make these cookies?!


Question: How do you make these cookies!?
I used to have them when I was a kid, they were my favorite cookies!. How do you make these!? do they come in easy to make packages!? also what kind of frosting are usually used on them!.

these are the cookies!.!. the green and white ones!
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Answers:
Frosted Holiday Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:
3-3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup butter or margarine, softened (not melted!)
1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in a medium sized bowl!. Set aside!.
Beat butter or margarine, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl with electric mixer until fluffy!. Gradually add flour mixture and stir with wooden spoon until thoroughly mixed!. Cover dough with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for two hours!.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F!. On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick!. Cut out circles with a cookie cutter or other round object, such as a glass or round plastic container!. Place circles 2” apart on ungreased cookie sheet!.
Bake for 6-8 minutes, checking after 6 minutes!. Cookies will be done when edges are lightly browned!. Do not allow cookies to get too brown!. Remove from oven and allow cookies to cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes!. Remove from cookies sheets to aluminum foil on a flat surface and allow to cool completely!.

Using a butter knife, spread white frosting on top of each cookie!.
Decorate the cookies with sprinkles, sugar, and candies!.
To make holly berry cookies, place two red candies or jelly beans toward the top of the cookie and draw on leaves with green decorator gel!.

For sugar stars, trees and other shapes, gently place a miniature cookie cutter on top of the cookie after it’s frosted!. Carefully sprinkle a small amount of sugar into the cookie cutter with your fingers, being careful not to let the sugar fall outside!. Gently remove cookie cutter!.
You can completely cover a cookie with decorative sugar by holding the frosted cookie upside down and dipping the frosted end into the sugar to coat!.

Use red decorator gel to write “Ho Ho Ho!” on your cookies!.
A snowman can be made from candies and fruit roll ups!. Cut a strip of fruit roll up, about ? thick, and twist it into a rope!. Place the fruit roll up around the top of the cookie as ear muffs and add jelly beans for the muffs themselves!. Decorate face with colored candies!.
Use cherry raisins to form the petals of a poinsettia!. Place a colored candy in the center!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

They are sugar cookies!
You can make them from a simple recipe:
Sugar Cookie Recipe
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C)!. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder!. Set aside!.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth!. Beat in egg and vanilla!. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients!. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets!.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden!. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks!. Decorate with frosting, sprinkles, and or colored sugar!.

OR
They come in a prepackaged cookie mix where you add egg and butter, etc!., bake then decorate!.

OR you can buy premade dough from the dairy section of your grocer, just slice and bake, then decorate!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

You can buy packages of those cookies at any grocery store!. They come in many colors of frosting (those look like Christmas)!.!.!.!. The frosting is basically just powdered sugar, beaten with Crisco and a touch of vanilla extractWww@FoodAQ@Com





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