Fancy Flours: Where Bakers Bloom

Sure to become a holiday baking tradition, these 3D Reindeer & Sleigh cookies can easily be made with our 3D cookie cutter sets (please view at www.fancyflours.com). Bake each piece separately, then decorate and put together with royal icing. We used our “Perfect Gingerbread” recipe, but our “No Fail Sugar Cookie” recipe would work great as well! Make sure cookies are completely cooled before decorating and putting together. The possibilities are endless for decorating these adorable cookies. Use sugar whimsies to adorn the sleigh or red edible pearls for Rudolphs nose. Let your creativity go wild!

This gorgeous cookie wreath can be made by decorating your favorite snowflake cookies, and attaching them in layers to a cake board using royal icing. Try using shiny silver dragees, shimmering edible glitter, or a classic sanding or sparkling sugar. Hang with a festive bow and this masterpiece is sure to please!

If you haven’t seen a Christmas tree decorated with good old fashioned cookie ornaments you’ve missed out on something special. You can make the ornaments with regular cookies but salt dough ornaments are more durable and will last longer.
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 cup water
Directions:
1. Mix salt and flour.
2. Add in half the water, then gradually add the remaining water.
3. Knead until the dough is smooth, this can take up to 10 minutes.
4. Roll out the dough on baking paper and cut out desired shapes with cookie cutters.
5. Use a straw to make a hole so you can hang the ornament.
Baking:
Temperature: 325 degrees
Time: 1 1/2 hours - or until dry

This is the best gingerbread cookie recipe we have ever tasted! Makes approximately 6 dozen 3 wonderfully crisp cookies.

Ingredients:
2 sticks butter (room temperature)
2 cups sugar
1 cup light molasses
2 eggs
4 cups flour
2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. ginger (ground)
2 tsp. cloves (ground)

Directions:

1. Cream butter and sugar. Add salt, soda and spices. Add eggs and molasses. Add flour. The dough will be very soft and must be well chilled before handling.

2 Preheat oven to 350?F. Roll dough out on a heavily floured surface. Dough must be rolled very thin- thick- in order to keep the shape of the cookie cutter.

3. Decorate and bake for 8-10 minutes.

Delicious Sugar Cookie Recipe
6 cups flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 cups sugar
2 cups butter (4 sticks)
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla

This is a great recipe when using cookie cutters. It doesnt spread! Your cookies will be the same shape after you bake them as they were before.

Note that this recipe makes up to 8 dozen 3 cookies, but it is easy to cut in half.

Cream sugar and butter until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs and flavoring. Mix dry ingredients in separate bowl and add to butter mixture. Mix well.

Put a handful of the freshly made dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll to desired thickness. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Put the rolled dough, including the parchment paper, on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes or longer. Your dough will be chilled and ready to cut and bake with no wait and no added flour! Repeat the process with scraps after cutting cookies.

Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool on rack.