easy but nice looking Christmas cookies?

Question

I need something easy easy but that looks pretty for a cookie exchange.

Answer 1

(Christmas cookies)

1¾ cups sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) good oleo or butter
4 cups flour
2 large eggs
1 level t soda
1 t vanilla
⅓ t salt
1 t butter flavoring

Cream oleo, add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add eggs and beat in. mix in vanilla and butter flavorings. Stir salt and soda into flour. Add flour a little at a time to egg mixture. Dough will be very thick. Can be shaped into rolls, chilled and sliced. For Christmas cookie shapes, roll out on lightly floured surface. Cut desired shapes. Bake on lightly greased cookie sheets at 350° for 10 – 12 minutes or until lightly browned.

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Icing

½ cup sugar
¼ cup white karo
2 T water
2 egg whites
1 t vanilla

Boil sugar, karo and water to firm balls stage (242°). Cooks quickly. Beat egg whites until stiff enough to peak. Pour hot syrup slowly over whites while beating. Add vanilla and mix.

Makes nice soft workable icing.

Answer 2

A great Christmas cookie is a sugar cookie. Here is the recipie:
You will need
Measuring Spoons
1/2 tsp. lemons extract
1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
Cookie sheets
Oven mitts
2/3 c. softened unsalted butters
2/3 c. sugars
Measuring cups
1 egg yolks
Cooling Racks
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/3 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 eggs
Mixing Spoons
Mixing bowls

This is how you make it.
1.Combine the flour, salt and baking powder. Do not sift.
2.Beat the butter until creamy, then add the sugar, vanilla and lemon extract and beat for 1 minute.
3.Beat in the egg and yolk.
4.Stir in the flour mixture only until incorporated. Stop stirring the instant the dough is uniform.
5.Form into a log, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill for at least 2 hours.
6.Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
7.Divide the dough and roll it out between two sheets of wax paper; make your cutouts. Only work with a little at a time. Keep the rest in the refrigerator to stay chilled.
8.Decorate the tops of the cookies with colored sugar, sprinkles, candies and other foods that won't melt in the oven.
9.Place the cookies on a nonstick baking sheet and cook for 10 minutes, or until they just start to turn golden around the edges. If cookies turn golden before 10 minutes have passed, lower the oven temperature.

You can buy cookie cutters and make Christmas Tree shapes!
Hope it Helps!

Answer 3

Try these lace cookies, they are absolutely delish and very fancy looking!


Lace Cookies

INGREDIENTS
1 cup unsalted butter
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup rolled oats
1/3 cup granulated sugar for decoration
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the vanilla and almond extracts. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt; stir into the butter mixture. Finally, mix in the rolled oats.
Roll dough into balls about 1 inch in diameter. Place the dough balls about 3 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheet. Dip the bottom of a glass in water and then in sugar, use this to flatten down the cookies. Sugar the glass as needed. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, cookies should be slightly browned. Store in an airtight container.

Answer 4

Chocolate Zebra Cookies
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels
4 ounces white chocolate for baking, melted


Directions:
1.Preheat oven to 350°F. In Small Batter Bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt; mix well. In Classic Batter Bowl, beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Add flour mixture and chocolate morsels; mix well.
2.Using Large Scoop, drop 6 scoops of dough, 3 inches apart, onto Rectangle Stone. (Cookies will spread while baking.)
3.Bake 14-16 minutes or until cookies are almost set and cracked on top. (Centers will still be moist. Do not overbake.) Cool 5 minutes on Stone; transfer to Stackable Cooling Rack. Cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough.
4.Chop white chocolate using Food Chopper. Place chocolate in Small Micro-Cooker®. Microwave on HIGH 1-2 minutes or until chocolate is melted and smooth, stirring every 30 seconds. Drizzle cookies with melted chocolate; allow chocolate to set completely.
Yield: approximately one dozen large cookies

Answer 5

You can buy the sugar cookie mix that you just add eggs water and oil to and then get christmas cookie cutters and decorate the cookies with frosting, sprinkles, etc. That's very easy and pretty!

Answer 6

There are some stores that sell "Take and bake" cookies. They are basically sugar cookies that are already mixed and cut out that just need to be baked and decorated. It you do a good job decorating them, they can look very nice.

Answer 7

I give this recipe to everyone. lol But its because it is soooo good! Looks pretty? Well...it is a layered cookie (soft chocolate cookie on bottom, maraschino cherry in the middle, and gooey chocolate sauce on the top) so maybe not fancy but they look like they took a lot of effort and they really didn't.

Either way try them. They are delicious.

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/nysatl/Math/cooking/images/cook5.htm

Answer 8

Using store-bought cookies you can dip them in melted chocolate chips. Let them dry. You only have to dip them in half way. If you want, you could also dip them in white chocolate.

Answer 9

slice n bake baby

Answer 10

THE PILSBURY DOUGH BOY!!