Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes One Recipe - Many Variations

There are so many Christmas cookie recipes around but often so little time to bake during the busy holiday season.

Solution? Great tasting basic cookie recipe that quickly and easily be converted into so many different easy to make Christmas treats, friends and family will think you poured all your favorite Christmas cookie recipes.

Let's start with the basics:

Basic Cookie Dough recipe

1 / 2 cups (or 1 stick) butter (or margarine) at room temperature
1 / 2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
2 tablespoons sugar
1 / 2 teaspoons baking powder
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1 / 2 cups all purpose flour

In a large bowl, combine all ingredients except flour. Beat with electric mixer, scraping the bowl several times, until mixture is light and fluffy. With mixer on low speed, add flour gradually, beating just until everything is well blended.

Put mixture into pan using a tablespoon measure and then flatten slightly with spoon. Or roll our and cut into cookie cutter shapes. Bake at 350 ° C for about 12-15 minutes, until golden.

This basic cookie mix is ​​also the base for the next cookie recipes (all baked in a preheated oven at 350 ° F).