How to Make Cookie Cutter Cookies

29 Recipe Ratings

Last Updated: October 31, 2020

Everybody enjoys making and decorating cookies with cookie cutters. Few people realize that baking such cookies is almost as easy as eating them.

Ingredients

2 1/4 cups (18 oz or 510 gram) all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (8 oz or 227 gram) sugar
3/4 cup [1 and 1/2 sticks] (6 oz or 170 gram) unsalted butter
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Frosting

Steps

1
Gather the ingredients.
2
Combine flour and salt in medium bowl and set it aside.

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3
Beat sugar and butter in large bowl at medium speed of electric mixer until fluffy. Or beat by hand with a wooden spoon in a bowl.
4
Beat in the egg, and vanilla extract.
5
Gradually add the flour mixture and beat at low speed until well blended.
6
Divide dough in half.
7
Wrap each ball of dough in plastic food wrap.
8
Refrigerate the dough for at least thirty minutes.
9
Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
10
Grease several cookie sheets.
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Sprinkle flour on a bread board, or other flat, hard surface.
12
Take one of the balls of dough, and unwrap it.
13
Roll the dough out on the bread board using a rolling pin, or round non-porous object.
14
Cut the shapes out of the dough.
15
Place the cookies on the sheets.
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Bake for twelve to fifteen minutes, or until the edges are slightly brown.
17
Repeat with the second ball of dough.
18
Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool completely.
19
Decorate the cookies.
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Enjoy.

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Community Q&A

Question

Will the shape change when we bake it?

Community Answer

No. The cookie will probably grow a bit, but the shape will stay the same.

Warnings

Don't forget to refrigerate the dough. If you don't, it will be horribly sticky and stick to everything, including you.

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Don't take the butter straight out of the fridge. If it isn't softened first [by letting it sit out for a little while] then it won't properly mix.

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Don't attempt to frost the cookies before they are cool. The frosting will melt and make your experience rather miserable.

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Don't add too much salt to the dough. It will ruin the entire batch of cookies

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Don't frantically attempt to soften the butter by putting it in the microwave. That will just melt it, and melted butter isn't any good either.

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Don't let the cookies bake too long! You don't want to wind up scraping blackened, charred cookies off of a ruined cookie sheet.

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Don't use imitation vanilla extract. Sure, it's cheaper, but sometimes you get what you pay for.

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Things You'll Need

Bowl
Electric mixer
Mixing spoon (wooden)
Cookie sheets
Extra flour for rolling
Rolling pin
Cookie cutters

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wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, 18 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. This article has been viewed 97,023 times.

29 votes - 86%

Co-authors: 18

Updated: October 31, 2020

Views: 97,023

Categories: Cookies and Biscuits

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