Santa's sugar cookies...
Bite sized melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookies. Perfect with a glass of milk.
Santa's Sugar Cookies And The Review of 2016
Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter
- 2 cups flour
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Optional m&m's, gummy bears, etc.
Instructions
- Leave butter to soften on room temperature. Transfer to a larger bowl and mix with a hand mixer for one minute.
- Add flour, sugar and egg yolks, and vanilla extract. This time mix with hands until the mass becomes a thick dough. Divide the dough into three parts. Work each a little longer. Cover each in saran wrap. Leave in the fridge overnight. (The dough will keep up to two weeks.)
- When ready to make cookies, take the dough out of the fridge and give it some time to adjust to room temp. Heat oven to 375F.
- Sprinkle the working area with flour. Unwrap the dough, and use a rolling pin to roll each out the thickness of three pennies stacked together. Use cookie cutters of your choice to cut up the dough into different shapes, or a knife if you don't have cookie cutters. Place cookies on a baking pan covered with baking paper.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes. They only need a short time to be done, so watch that they don't over bake.
- (Optional) Top with m&m's, gummy bears, etc.
Notes
This amount of dough yields 3-4 dozen or more.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Marwah says
Hi Aida! It sounds like your blog is really picking up steam! I just wanted to say that I love your recipes, stories, and photography. There are not many books out there on Bosnian cooking. And the ones that are out are difficult to understand, mainly due to less than ideal translation and the inability to equate ingredients to things available outside Bosnia. I have tried Bosnian recipes on other sites, but they too are often written by someone who is outside North America, and so is not familiar with the ingredients and methodologies we use here. They also often leave out a lot of crucial information in preparation that may be common sense to the Bosnian who has prepared that recipe for 40+ years, but is essential to someone who has never seen or tasted that dish. That is often a deterrent for even trying the recipe. Your recipes are written in great detail, addressing substitutions for ingredients that the reader can find at their local grocery store. And, you are responsive to your readers! Your website has truly filled a niche. I am so grateful for the time and energy you spend creating the recipes, photographing the steps, writing the stories that accompany them, and putting it all together in an easy-to-read, easy-to-navigate website, even with so much going on in your own life! I visit your page often, at least once a week, and several of your recipes have become a part of my weekly meal rotation (most popular in my home: your goulash, chicken paprikash, stuffed peppers, everyday chocolate squares, and scruffies, just to name a few!). I look forward to trying many more recipes in 2017. Happy new year!
Aida says
Dear Marwah,
Your suggestions are adored within my family! We even have a joke - if something doesn't come out well one of us will be like "I wonder how Marwah did it, I better check the comments!"
On a serious note, thank you for coming by and trying out the recipes. I'm glad not only that your family likes them, but that you yourself like the food. It really is tasty. While it can be heavy for everyday, it's very adjustable. You can find a little bit of every type of person that crossed the Balkans in its cuisine. In a way, Balkan/ Bosnian cuisine reminds me of the US - there are so many different ingredients (people) that make this one great unit.
It's for you and people like you this blog was intended for.
I hope you'll continue stopping by in the New Year. I wish you happy holidays, and may 2017 be your best one yet!
Krystyna says
Dear Aida, thank you so much for sharing with us this detailed analysis of the traffic and strategies you implement on the blog. It is priceless, especially for such blog-dummies as myself 🙂 And what is even more amazing, you still have so ambitious plans and clear goals that I'm sure they will lead you toward spectacular success! I deeply believe that you are for the Bosnian cuisine what Julia Child was for the French cuisine. You are a real lighthouse in this strange ocean of obvious recipes which are apparently not so obvious for all those who haven’t been a Bosnian granny in the previous life 🙂 When I close my eyes I see your future book and a TV show 🙂 It’s is honor to have you in my life, not only because you are such fantastic blogger and a cook, but because you are so inspiring and great person 😛 You rock girl <3 <3
Aida says
Darling!
Glad this space provided a platform for us to meet!
Thank you for the comments although I'm far from filling Julia's shoes. I'll settle for her fantastic laugh though.
Hopefully, some of this analysis is helpful. Reviewing and comparing numbers gives a good perspective. If you can write it down, you can measure it. And if you can measure it, you can see your progress and improve.
I love seeing your site grow, and the minimalism you utilize with food photography to say the entire story. You are talented!
Thank you also for honoring Balkan cuisine by creating the fusion I thought was impossible. You've kept important details while providing something new. Where others have failed, you've effectively modernized Balkan cuisine for the Western palate. That's like Tesla-alternating-currents level talent!
And I look forward to becoming a strange Polish-Bosnian-American granny with you. 🙂
Mrs. KB says
This is a GREAT blog. My husband is Bosnian and is going to LOOOOOVE anything I cook from here.
Aida says
Hi and welcome to the blog! Glad you find it useful. Let me know how it turns out and happy cooking!