Lassley Family Christmas Cookies
This recipe was given to me by my Uncle Gary, who received it from his Late Grandma Unger. It makes a perfect dessert to follow a nice Smoked Turkey dinner
Be Advised, this is a two day process, so plan accordingly
Ingredients
- Cookie Ingredients
- Two mixing bowls
- 3 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
- 2 sticks Parkay Butter (At Room Temperature)
- 1 1/4 cups C&H Sugar
- 2 Jumbo Eggs (At Room Temperature)
- 2 Teaspoons Adams Best Vanilla (any high quality vanilla is ok, just try to avoid using cheap imitation vanilla)
Icing Ingredients
- 1 mixing bowl
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 Tablespoon lite corn syrup
- 2 Tablespoons Parkay butter (at room temperature)
- 1/2 Tablespoon Adams Best Vanilla (any high quality vanilla is ok, just try to avoid using cheap imitation vanilla)
- 3 Tablespoons Hot Water
Directions
- Use a flour sifter to sift together the flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, and Salt into a bowl.
- Use a Pastry Cutter to cut in the two sticks of Parkay (butter) into the sifted mix. After cutting, the mixture should resemble something along the lines of cornmeal (give or take)
- In a separate bowl, mix together the Sugar, Eggs, and Vanilla.
- Combine the two mixes together and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon until you can start kneading by hand.
- Knead until thoroughly mixed then form into loaves, wrap tightly in aluminum foil and place in the fridge overnight (at least 8 hours)
- next day (or at least 8 hours later)
- Preheat oven to 375
- Spread flour on counter to roll dough on.
- It is best to only have enough to work with out of the fridge, keeping the rest cool until you are ready for it.
- Roll the dough out to approx 3/16" thick. Cut with cookie cutters into whatever shape you like.
- Place cut dough onto un-greased cookie sheets and bake.
- Cookies will be a light golden yellow when done, DO NOT OVERBAKE.
- When done, carefully remove cookies from sheet and allow them to cool on wire racks.
Icing Instructions
- Mix all icing ingredients together in a bowl. If the icing gets hard while using, add a teaspoon of hot water and mix thoroughly, then continue icing.
- The icing process works best with three people. One person ice the cookies with a butter knife, one person add sprinkles if desired, and the last person lays the iced & sprinkled cookies out to dry.
- ENJOY!!