Hanukkah Cutout Sugar Cookies Recipe
These amazing Hanukkah sugar cookies will be a highlight of every Hanukkah party! Colorful Hanukkah cutout shapes, so sweet and delicious, sprinkled with sugar and taste so good!
Servings: 8 servings
Equipment
- Hanukkah cookie cutters (Star of David, dreidel, menorah)
- baking sheets
- Mixer
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 3/4 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp blue food coloring
- Blue and white sugar sprinkles for decorating
Instructions
- To make these cookies, you need Hanukkah cookie cutters (you can buy them on Amazon).
- Preheat the oven to 400F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Put butter and sugar in a large bowl and mix with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and mix until combined.
- Add 1 1/2 cup flour, baking powder and salt, and mix until combined. Add the remaining flour, and mix until combined.
- Divide dough into two equal parts. Add one part to the food processor fitted with a steel blade and add blue food coloring to it. Process for 1 minute, or until the dough is evenly colored blue.
- Roll each dough ball (white and blue) into a 12 inch circle. Cut out the cookies with a Hanukkah cookie cutters and put them on the baking sheet, spacing the cookies at least 1 inch. Combine the dough scraps back into a ball, roll it out again, cut out more cookies and repeat until all the dough is used.
- Sprinkle the light cookie dough with the blue sugar sprinkles, and the blue cookie dough with white sugar.
- Put the Chanukkah cookies in the oven and bake for 7 minutes.
Notes
- You can use any combination of sprinkles or edible glitter to decorate the cookies, adding a fun and festive touch to your Hanukkah celebration.
- If you prefer softer cookies, bake them for a minute less to achieve a more tender texture.