I haven’t baked much cookies in my life. The one recipe that clearly comes to my mind is the butter cookies I used to make often when I was in college. It called for copious amounts of butter so I was on the lookout for a low fat Xmas cookie recipe. These cookies came out nice and crunchy and yummy. I halved the ingredients amount.
Christmas Sugar Cookies | Christmas Cookie Recipes
Makes 15 medium-sized sugar cookies
What I Used:
Softened butter – 2.5 tbsp
Sugar – 5 tbsp (Add more if you like sweet cookies, after all they are called sugar cookies!)
Egg – 1
Flour – 1 cup
Baking powder – 1/2 tsp
Vanilla essence – 1/2 tsp
Salt – one pinch
How to make Christmas Cookies:
1. Sift flour, salt and baking powder till all three have mixed properly.
2. Cream butter and sugar.
3. Slowly add the lightly beaten egg and the flour mix to this to make a dough that will be slightly crumbly.
4. Wrap in a plastic sheet and refrigerate for 2 hours.
5. Once cool, roll out the dough and cut into desired shapes. I dont have any cookie cutters so I made smal balls and flattened them out with my hand. I also sprinkled some sugar on top before baking.
6. Preheat oven and bake the cookies at 350 degree F/180 degree C. They were done in 8-10 mins, so stick around!
Hi Nags,
I love that you made them lower in fat yet they still look incredibly moist. What a fantastic addition to Eat Christmas Cookies! Thank you, Susan
That is lower in fat and looks absolutely crunchy and delicious.
Looks delicious and I sure don’t care if its low fat or not, as long as it tastes good…I’m sure yours did! 🙂
I don’t care about the fat factor. The cookie looks absolutely delicious and tempting.
Cookies look delicious. Yeah low fat cookies are always welcome especially in this holiday period
those cookies look darn good…i think i would eat the 15 in one sitting honest..if made without the eggs 🙂
Low fat or not, the cookies look lovely..must have tasted the same.
Nags, 2.5 tbspn does surely make it low fat for me at least. I love the colour n they really look buttery enough!! Love the recipe.
these are the basic butter cookies and I think you cant name them low fat, coz a cup of flour blends with a egg and 2.5 tablespoons of butter, my dear girl..
Perfect shape and I can smell that heavenly smell of butter baking..:)
Thanks for sharing this basic recipe..will be of much help to cookie-starters like me..:)
P.S- dont forget you are already am expert with those “melting moments” 😉
Nags!! cookies look so delicious!!