Easy Reindeer Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar with a mixer until smooth.
3. Beat in the vanilla extract and egg.
4. In another bowl, combine the flour and baking powder and mix well.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients a little at a time.
6. When it's all mixed in, wet your hands and knead it by hand until it's a good dough consistency.
7. Immediately roll small batches out onto a floured surface to about ¼" thick, then cut with cookie cutters. (Don't chill the dough)
8. Bake at 350F for 8 to 9 minutes.

At least I’ve managed to fit in a little bit of Christmas baking. Since this was the first time in YEARS that I’ve used my rolling pin, I figured I better take advantage of the situation and get two cookie designs from it. So these came from the same batch as the Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies I posted about last week. I got the idea for them here – Aren’t they the cutest cookies ever?! They are so easy!

I have no idea how to properly roll dough. I thought the cookies turned out okay though? Are the edges of the rolled dough supposed to be so ragged, like in my picture below? I have no idea?

I didn’t have a circle cookie cutter, so I just used a wine glass to cut out my circles. Worked like a charm!

The cookies turned out beautifully! Perfectly round, with even colour and no darkening around the edges. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself!

To decorate them, I used Wilton’s Black Gel Icing, Wilton’s White Decorating Icing, and red and brown M&M’s. The recipe for the cookies is at the bottom of this post.

Start by using the black gel icing to draw two tiny eyes, pretty much right in the center of the cookie.

Then draw two diagonal lines upwards away from the eyes.

Then more diagonal lines to complete the antlers.

Add a generous dot of white icing where the nose is going to go.

Then gently press on the M&M with the “M” side facing down.

Easy peasy!

Aren’t they cute!?

My 5 year old doesn’t really like icing, so she enjoyed these much more than the Christmas Tree sugar cookies we made. There’s just enough icing on these to add a tiny bit of sweetness, but it’s not over powering.

The black gel icing dries surprisingly firm. It looks wet in the photos, but it’s just shiny. It’s relatively firm to the touch, and just a bit sticky.

My husband thought I should have only made one Rudolph cookie with a red nose, and the rest brown, but I thought the red ones were way cuter! I love the pop of colour!

These reindeer sugar cookies are really easy to make and they look ADORABLE! The gel icing dries hard enough that they’ll travel well. And I love that it’s just enough icing to add some sweetness.

Sources: https://letscooking22.blogspot.com/2018/11/100-best-christmas-treats.html