This Christmas Cookies recipe comes from a layered magazine clipping filed under Cookies in My Mom’s Recipe Box. Its cookie dough, decorations, numbered directions, yield, timing, and nutrition information are preserved here as printed.
Original Recipe Card
Ingredients
COOKIES:
- 2¼ cups flour
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
- 12 Tbs. unsalted butter, at room temperature
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp. vanilla
DECORATIONS:
- 2½ cups confectioners’ sugar
- ¼ tsp. cream of tartar
- 2 egg whites
- Green and red food coloring
Directions
- Combine flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a large bowl using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in egg and vanilla until light and fluffy. On low speed, gradually beat in flour mixture. Chill until firm enough to roll, about 2 hours.
- Heat oven to 350°. Roll dough to ⅛" thick. Cut out with 2½" to 3" cookie cutters. Bake on ungreased baking sheets until edges are golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on wire racks.
- Meanwhile, sift confectioners’ sugar and cream of tartar into small bowl. Add egg whites. With an electric mixer set at high speed, beat until so stiff that a knife drawn through center of bowl leaves a clean path. Divide in three and tint ⅓ green and ⅓ red. Decorate cookies as desired.
Yield
50 cookies
Timing From the Original
Work time: 2 hrs.
Total Time: 4 hrs. 30 min.
Nutrition Information From the Original
Per cookie: Cal. 91 Pro. 1g Fat 3g Sod. 27mg Carb. 16g Chol. 12mg
Preservation Notes
This recipe is preserved as a narrow printed magazine clipping arranged over two holiday cookie photographs on an index card. Staples, overlapping paper edges, the visible mark across part of the title, and the original layout remain visible in the scan.
Notes From the Original
The clipping separates the recipe into “COOKIES:” and “DECORATIONS:” and numbers the directions from 1 through 4. The visible mark across the word “Cookies” in the title has been documented without assuming whether it was an intentional correction or an incidental mark.
About My Mom’s Recipe Box
This recipe is part of My Mom’s Recipe Box, an ongoing preservation project dedicated to my late mother’s original recipe collection. Every effort is made to preserve the original wording, organization, handwritten notes, typewritten cards, magazine clippings, corrections, and other details exactly as they appeared in her recipe box. When clarification is helpful, it is provided separately so the original recipe remains preserved.
