
Brown Sugar Christmas Cookies

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These are not your typical sugar cookies: softer, mildly sweet, and feather light thanks to brown sugar and lovely, flaky lard. These Brown Sugar Christmas Cookies are a holiday tradition in my family. Each year my Grandma rolls out batches of this simple dough, bakes dozens of cookies, and sends them round the state of Texas (and now up to me in New England) for holiday snacking (and sometimes breakfast). With a few recipe tweaks and some fashion-forward frosting, these simple sugar cookies make it over the roof top and right onto Santa's nice list.
ingredients
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serves: 2-3
DOUGH
2 cups light brown sugar
1 cup lard
3 eggs
1 cup sour milk (combine one cup milk with 1 teaspoon white vinegar and let sit while mixing other ingredients)
5 cups flour
5 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
flour for rolling
ROYAL ICING (originally from Bake at 350)
8 tablespoons meringue powder
1 cup water
2 lb powdered sugar
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
color dyes
Servings Per Recipe: 2
Amount per Serving
Calories: 4979
- Total Fat: 125 g
- Saturated Fat: 50.8 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Cholesterol: 376.5 mg
- Sodium: 1483.9 mg
- Total Carbs: 938.7 g
- Dietary Fiber: 15.9 g
- Sugars: 665 g
- Protein: 48.5 g
preparation

comments
Floren Girl
December 5, 2014
My kids are going to love these 🙂