Making and decorating these snowflake cookies over the holiday season is a lot of fun. The kids and I have been making this mom’s recipe for years.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 40 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 1 cup shortening
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
Instructions
- Beat sugar and shortening with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Beat one egg into butter mixture, then beat in remaining eggs and vanilla. Add flour and salt; stir until dough is just combined. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour.
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Roll dough on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of 1/8 inch. Cut dough into desired shapes with a cookie cutter and place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, about 6 to 8 minutes. Cool briefly on baking sheets, then remove to wire racks to cool completely before decorating.
Reviews
These are nice cookies; easy to make and really do keep their shape after being baked. My only caveat is that they simply don’t have the flavor that a butter cookie does; and that’s, of course, due using shortening instead. I only made a half batch of these, and got about 20 cookies of various sizes. I also had found the dough to be very workable; and had no issues rolling it out. I frosted the cookies with Glossy Royal Icing from this site. Thanks for the recipe!
I use the recipe every year. The BEST cookies ever and so fun to decorate. Problem is we eat them way too fast!!
I’m a cookie artist and always searching for a sugar cookie that will hold its shape. This recipe does!
Kept its form surprisingly well! We had a lot of fun “writing” with this dough.
I followed the recipe, but the frosting didn’t come out like I preferred and it took longer than I thought
I was so excited for this recipe but unfortunately I think they are just to sweet for me ! Also when they cool they get a lol bit to hard as well.
It was very difficult to work with. I couldn’t really roll it, it was really sticky
These are very good! My whole family loved them!:-)
GOOD! My intentions were to make these cookies as snow flakes. I had my cookie cutters all set but the dough would not roll. I had placed it in the refrigerator in the morning and this was evening. I didn’t want to add any more flour because I didn’t want a dry bland cookie. What I did was get out my cookie scoop and roll the scoop of dough in coarse sugar then flatten. Because I was now off track and the dough was thicker, I lowered the temperature to 375degrees and baked for 10 minutes to be sure the center was done. The resulting cookie was delicious. I’m sorry this recipe did not work for me but the end result was GOOD! Thank you Patty Morris for sharing!
It is very delicious.
I loved this recipe! its great for making snow flake shaped cookies. first time iv made these and will make again. just what my husband want for his Christmas cookies.
This is the same cut out cookie recipe that I have used for several years. It is easy to make and wonderful for elaborate decorations. This is one that I use each Christmas for the cookie baskets, that I am famous for. It’s not so much the flavor that everyone loves but the decoration on top. The only thing I do different is use two 1/4″ dowell rods when rolling out the dough to make sure each cookie is the same height and bake evenly.
tasted like sugared play-doh, difficult to work with as well
These are okay. The dough was great for cutouts. 1/8 inch thick though seemed a bit thin and we had trouble getting them on the cookie sheet. We rolled the next ones a little thicker about 1/4 inch, and they were much easier to work with. Flavor was so-so, just a sugar cookie. A little dense, heavier texture than what I prefer. This is a nice sturdy cookie perfect for little hands to decorate.
I don’t rate it unless it’s five stars and this IS five stars! This is sugar cookie and so easy to make no tweaking required! This is my first time making these and I love that it is so esay to make and sooo delicious and yummy!! Ingredients are just right!!
it was alrite, added peanutbutter cause i wanted to…. tasted pretty good… a tad too sugary, but alrite.