Hopefully not too late for the holidays: my mom's no chill Christmas cookies:

Ingredients:

Cookies:

• 1 cup butter, softened (according to my mom, this must be butter, as margarine doesn't work. I feel like I've done it with margarine before just fine, but that's up to you guys to experiment)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

Icing:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp milk
• 2 tbsp corn syrup.
• 3-5 drops of desired food coloring

Instructions:

Cookies:

1. Preheat oven to 350°

2. Mix all ingredients in large mixing bowl until dough is uniform, and has a play-dough like texture.

3. Roll out dough on floured surface, and cut the cookies.

4. Bake 12-15 minutes, until edges are golden brown.

5. Ice cookies while still warm, using a spoon to apply.

Icing:

1. Beat all ingredients in a small bowl, until thoroughly mixed.

Story at the end of the recipe, like it should be:

This recipe is unique in that the dough doesn't have to chill before being cut into cookies. Most of them do have to chill. This is really helpful when you have kids who may want to help mix the dough, but who don't want to have to wait for an hour to cut the cookies. It's also surprisingly flavorful, for a sugar cookie, and the cookies come out a bit thicker and chewier than most, rather than the standard crunchy sugar cookie.

Look, man. All I'm saying is that my ex used to make enough wonderful cookies at christmas to feed a small army of gourmets, and after she tried this recipe, she immediatly switched her sugar cookies up.

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