Christmas Sugar Cookies

Every Christmas, I love to make homemade sugar cookies with frosting.  I converted this GF recipe from the Joy of Baking website. I'm not a fan of Royal Icing so I used just a basic butter frosting. The batch I made two days ago is already almost gone...they are so good!!

Ingredients:

3 cups GF flour (I used 2 cups brown rice flour/ 1 cup sorghum flour)

1 teaspoon xanthum gum

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup  unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup granulated white sugar

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Instructions:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
• Mix dry ingredients together
• Beat butter, sugar, eggs in mixing bowl on low-medium speed with a mixer
• Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients until combined.
• Chill dough until firm
• Roll out dough onto clean floured surface until 1/4 inch thick*
• Cut into desired shapes
• Place on cookie sheet and back for 8-10 minutes

*Helpful tip: Roll out only a quarter or half of the dough so that it does not warm up too much. Keeping the dough cool helps it roll out better.

Frosting

4 cups confectioners sugar sifted

1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

4 milk

 Instructions: Mix ingredients until well combined. Add drops of your favorite colors and decorate as desired!

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