Sugar Cookies are part of our traditional holiday baking for us to enjoy and share. This year I decided to try a new recipe from the Half Baked Harvest blog, these Easy Vanilla Bean Christmas Lights Cookies.
This will definitely be added to our Christmas Cookie recipe files. So delicious! This sugar cookie recipe has brown butter – which always gives such a depth of flavor to baked goodies and it has double the vanilla as most recipes. I did roll out the dough between two sheets of parchment paper and let it chill before cutting out the shapes.
The vanilla icing recipe also added to the deliciousness of these cookies. Along with the powdered sugar, you add maple syrup, and again, twice the vanilla as usual. What a difference that makes! To decorate, you can melt chocolate chips to create line for the “lights.” Use Holiday Mini M&Ms set on their sides for the lights.
Or just top the cookie with frosting and add your favorite sprinkles. Sprinkles always make cookie baking more fun.
Such a yummy variation of the traditional sugar cookie! The secret is the brown butter, double vanilla and the maple syrup in the icing. Merry Christmas!!!
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