Ingredients for Sugar Cookies

Series Summary

The Christmas season is usually filled to the brim with family gatherings, the hustle and bustle of last minute gift shopping, the friendly competition to hang more lights than your neighbors, time spent listening to Christmas songs and decorating the tree, and, most importantly, food. Between traditional Christmas dinners and endless office holiday parties, it's almost impossible to celebrate the season without putting on a few pounds of Christmas cheer, just like jolly ol’ St. Nick. Whether it’s the honey glazed ham, the fruit cake, the egg nog, or the cookies that get you, this is the time of the year where you just stop counting calories and start counting good times and happy memories.

Along with other traditional icons of the Christmas season—the tree, the presents, the manger scene, and the jolly bearded fat man himself, accompanied by his flying reindeer—homemade cookies help us to remember some of the best times of our lives, spent with the ones we love. In these free holiday dessert videos, learn how to bake Christmas sugar cookies. Our expert will walk you through this simple recipe, with step-by-step instructions for creaming the sugar, adding vanilla, eggs, and flour, kneading and shaping the dough, cutting out the cookies, baking tips, and how long to let the cookies cool.

Merry Christmas.

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to show you how to make sugar cookies. For today's sugar cookie recipe I'm not going to use a whole lot of ingredients I got 5 1/2 cups of all purpose flour this is the regular flour you get at your grocery store and I wouldn't use any sort of self rising flour. Cause you'll have enormous cookies if you use that, 2 teaspoons of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of baking powder and make sure you don't mix those up cause your cookies will taste like aspirin or something it is not very pleasant. I got 4 sticks of butter (2 whole cups) and use soften butter this butter hasn't got soft yet but I'll show you a way to make it soft enough in a few minutes, 3 cups of granulated plain white sugar. Nothing fancy about it something you get at the grocery store, 4 teaspoons of vanilla extract you can also use imitation vanilla extract, it's cheaper and 2 eggs. Two regular medium sized grocery store eggs and that is it and let us move on to the equipment we need to use for our cookies."