How to box buttercream cookies?

Tip #2: A Short Yet Wide Box is Best The best storage containers for packaging your beautiful, yet delicate, buttercream cookies are boxes that are large width-wise but short height-wise.

How to gift cookies with icing?

Heat Sealing Since the icing hardens, simply place it in the bag and seal! Here is my favorite heat sealer and my favorite cellophane bags. Heat sealers are not a big investment either! If you don't want to buy a heat sealer, these bags are self-sealing as well.

Do you have to refrigerate cookies with buttercream frosting?

Does buttercream frosting on cookies need to be refrigerated? Not necessarily . Because of the hight amount of sugar, you can leave the frosted sugar cookies at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 2-3 days. If you refrigerate them, they will last up to 5-6 days.

What is the secret to cut-out cookies?

Pull off the top sheet of parchment, then slide the sheet of dough onto a baking sheet, then pop it in the freezer. (You can stack as many sheets of dough onto one baking sheet as you'd like.) Sandwich your dough between two sheets of parchment, roll, then freeze ; it makes cut-out cookies a breeze!

How do you keep cookie cutter cookies in shape?

I can't wait to read through all of the great ideas posted there! What is this? To help cookies keep their shape, freeze them! I freeze each batch of cut-out cookies for 5 to 10 minutes before baking.

Why do my Christmas cookies not keep their shape?

Mixing Butter & Sugar If your butter is under mixed, it won't have the air pockets to hold it's shape . If it's over-mixed, the air pockets decrease in size and are unable to hold their shape in the oven—causing your cookies to spread. It's best to cream butter and sugar on medium speed for 2 to 3 minutes.

Can you package buttercream cookies?

My buttercream forms a crust after a few hours, so it allows me to package the cookies into bags and heat seal them . But don't stack your cookies because the crust is a soft crust that can still get damaged if you're rough with them.

What's the difference between frosting and icing on cookies?

Frosting is the thickest of these confections and is ideal for spreading or piping on cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Icing is a little thinner than frosting and is often poured or piped over coffee cakes, pound cakes, doughnuts and cookies—and it usually hardens when it dries.

Do you put icing before or after baking cookies?

Follow this tip: Don't rush the cooling process. The first step to making beautifully decorated cookies is making sure the cookies are completely cooled when you begin adding the icing . Play it safe by making it a two-day process: Bake the cookies one day, then decorate the next day.

How do you mail buttercream cookies?

How to Package Cookies for Mailing. Use a durable, rigid box or empty tin as a mailing container. Place bubble wrap in the bottom of the container, then line the container with aluminum foil or plastic food wrap that is large enough to wrap over the cookies when the container is full.

How long do buttercream sugar cookies last?

Decorated Sugar Cookies If you leave them on the counter, at room temperature, they should be good to go for about two weeks . If you decide to leave them in the fridge, they will last about a week, but keep in mind that it's best to eat them within the first three days.

Christmas Cutout Cookies with Buttercream Frosting - Mighty Mrs

If you’re looking for delicious, old-fashioned oatmeal Christmas cut out cookies.Thisistherecipe! Our family makes a huge batch every winter.

★ Why You'll Love this Recipe ★

Our family recipe for Christmas Cut-out Cookies

This Christmas cookie recipe is what we use year after year. It's become a holiday tradition for my kids and their cousins.

These Christmas cutout cookies are soft and have that melt-in-your-mouth quality.

They have a subtle oatmeal texture and nutty, buttery flavor. The cookies are frosted with buttercream which you can color and use to decorate in any way that you'd like.

These cookies are fun to make, decorate and of course, eat. They are always are the first to get eaten up among all the different kinds we make.

They're Santa's favorite too, so I've heard. 😉

★ Ingredients You'll Need ★

You'll need your cookies basics like flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, baking powder and a touch of milk. Oatmeal makes these a bit unique.

For the buttercream frosting, you'll need plenty of butter and powdered sugar, vanilla extract, milk and then an assortment of food coloring to create different colors of your frosting.

Green, yellow, red, brown and white are good colors to start with but we've also done blue, orange, and even pink and purple. We let the kid decide but you may have a design in mind, so go with whatever colors you want.

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★ Tips & FAQs ★

Are these homemade from scratch?

Yes. You can't make the best Christmas cut out cookies without starting from scratch.

Before you get discouraged or worse, grumpy, about the thought of making cookies from scratch, let me just take a minute to tell you—I feel you! With the hustle and bustle of the season, there never seems to be enough time to get it all done, much less do anything "extra" like making cookies from scratch. But those "extra" things are the ones that you're going to look back on and remember.

Follow these steps and you can't go wrong.

Watch this video that shows the whole process of making these Christmas cut-out cookies, start to finish:

Decorate these with your own style!

Don't we have enough work to do around the holidays? Over the years our family has made these and it's become a tradition. They are not hard to make but they do involve several steps—prepping the dough, cutting our the shapes, baking the cookies then preparing several colors of frosting.

The last step though, is the most fun. We take all of our miscellaneous sprinkles from the year and we use those to decorate the cookies after we frost then. We come up with crazy patterns and color combinations, we make cookie boys and girls to looks like each member of our family and we don't fret if they don't look perfect.

Everyone participates and all the cookies look different. The kids eat half the toppings straight out of the bowl and sneak bite of cookies while we're not looking. Everything gets covered in flour and it's a giant mess. So, is it a lot of work? Yeah. Does it feel like work though? Sometimes.

Point is, you can decorate these according to your stage of life. If you have little kids, let them go wild! If you love the look and beautiful, delicately detailed cookies and that's relaxing for you, go for it!

What type of oatmeal works best with cut out cookies?

We normally use quick oats since they are softer and thinner and probably help the cookie hold together better and might offer a cleaner edge when cut out. But rolled oats or old fashioned oats should work fine too, you'll just have thicker chunks of oatmeal and the cookies might be a little more dry tasting.

I would not recommend steel cut oats. Because steel cut oats are so thick, there's not enough moisture in this cookie recipe or a long enough cook time to really bring those to life.

Special Tools You'll Need

First, you'll need a collection of Christmas cookie cutters. The larger the cookies, the easier and more fun the cookies are to decorate. I recommend a set of cookie cutters with a variety of shapes.

The other item that you don't necessarily need but I highly recommend is silicon baking sheets.

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The bottoms of your cookies will come out perfect if you use them and they are much easier to deal with than parchment paper. Plus they're reusable year after year.

A thin metal spatula is also very helpful for removing cookies from the pans after baking.

★ More Recipes You'll Love ★

Hosting or going to a holiday baking party?

Check out my other cookie recipes. You might also fall in love with my easy yule log cake!

These best Christmas cut out cookies were featured on Inspire Me Monday, Big Bear's Wife's Cookie Plan, South Your Mouth, Meal Plan Monday!