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December 12, 2016 by Dana Weaver Leave a Comment

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We are having a cookie exchange and judging as one part of our month-long Christmas extravaganza at work.  I don’t recall ever doing one at the office before and I’m planning on blowing the competition away! Christmas is the best time to make iced sugar cookies and I have chosen a simple star/snowflake design.

We will be judged on appearance and taste so I decided to go with the traditional Wilton sugar cookie recipe.  You can’t go wrong with it and the touch of almond extract coupled with real butter makes them delectable.  I used the small batch recipe for these cookies and it yielded 24 1/4 inch cookies.  If you would like to make a lot of cookies, you can use their large batch recipe.

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I was first inspired to decorate sugar cookies by my neighbor, Jennifer Strittmatter.  She gave us some for Christmas one year and they were beautiful and tasty.  Over the next year, I perfected my technique through all of the holidays and ended up decorating about 5 dozen cookies that Christmas.

There is something calming about decorating and creating.  It calms the nerves and allows me to spend time in right-brain activities.  I spend so much time with my left brain for work, I need the reprieve.  In contrast to some of the work I do, decorating cookies allows me to actually finish something and be proud of my end product.

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The whole process of making and decorating can take me several days.  My Easter batch took me three days to make.  I bake the cookies on the first day, do the base color on the 2nd and then finish off with the embellishments on the 3rd.  I took 2 days for this batch and ended up baking and doing the base coat icing all in the same day.

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Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for my next post about the Christmas goodies I’m giving out this year…

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