Ingredients for Rolled Sugar Cookies

Series Summary

The great thing about cookies is that you can eat them with your hands, they can be made out of a variety of sweet ingredients and you can decorate them with anything you want. Thanks to the discovery of sugar back in the Persian Empire, people have been making sweet desserts for centuries. Cookies are just one example of the goodness that sugar brings, but it might just be the best example of that goodness. Aside from sugar, cookies can have a variety of ingredients to give them a unique flavor, including spices, chocolate, butter, peanut butter, nuts or dried fruit. While chocolate chip cookies are the most well known of cookies, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies and snickerdoodles are also popular favorites.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how to make rolled sugar cookies. This holiday favorite, sometimes referred to simply as Christmas cookies or holiday cookies, are often cut into holiday shapes and decorated with sprinkles and frosting. Let our expert show you each easy to follow step for baking sugar cookies, including how to add and mix the dry ingredients, butter, egg, vanilla and sugar. You will also get tips on how to use metal cookie cutters, embossed cookie cutters and cookie stamps. Learn how to make your own icing and decorate these fun and easy cookies.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail. On behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make a variety of different rolled sugar cookies. For making our rolled sugar cookies first we are going to go over all of our ingredients that you need to have these creative, fun festive cookies. First and for most you are going to need flour, 2/3 cups of butter, vanilla, baking powder, 1 egg. For decorative purposes some color sugars, food dye, a touch of salt, you'll also need granulated sugar and then if you're going to make some icing for your cookies you'll also need powdered sugar. You can also bring a variety of different types of candies and other things for decorating your cookies. Your imagination is your only limitations as to how decorative and festive your rolled sugar cookies can be."