Here’s a collection of 12 fabulously festive Christmas Gift Wrapping Ideas. You are going to love all of the Christmas goodness that is headed your way over the next several days. Don’t miss a single day — they are all different and promise tons of holiday cheer and inspiration! Enjoy…
Join us for the 12 Days of Christmas Ideas Series along with eleven other talented bloggers. We’ve rounded up the best of the best Christmas ideas to make your holiday season more festive and fun.
Every day December 1-12th we will be sharing a new collection of Christmas Ideas rounded up from our best blogging friends around the web. That’s a total of 144 awesome Christmas Ideas to make your holiday season easier and more fun! Some of our topics include Decor, DIY, Organization, Food, Games and so much more. We don’t want to spoil the fun by telling you too much. We want you to be surprised! Now is the perfect time to subscribe so you’ll be the first to know!
Today, we’re talking organization and Christmas Decoration Storage at the 12 Days of Christmas Ideas Blog Hop with a group of fantastic bloggers. You are going to love all of the Christmas goodness that is headed your way over the next several days. Don’t miss a single day — they are all different and promise tons of holiday cheer and inspiration! Enjoy…
Join us for the 12 Days of Christmas Ideas Series along with eleven other talented bloggers. We’ve rounded up the best of the best Christmas ideas to make your holiday season more festive and fun.
Every day December 1-12th we will be sharing a new collection of Christmas Ideas rounded up from our best blogging friends around the web. That’s a total of 144 awesome Christmas Ideas to make your holiday season easier and more fun! Some of our topics include Decor, DIY, Organization, Food, Games and so much more. We don’t want to spoil the fun by telling you too much. We want you to be surprised! Now is the perfect time to subscribe so you’ll be the first to know!
It’s day three of the 12 Days of Christmas Ideas Series and it’s my turn to share! Since I’m a sucker for a great organizing solution, I’m sharing the 12 Most Creative Christmas Decoration Storage Ideas on the web!
Remember when you were a kid, and your mom baked you cookies? Well, today, I’m baking up something tasty and delicious just for you. And, it’s a perfect treat with your favorite cup of coffee. As promised in my newsletter, Coffee With Lorelai, here is a fantastic Sugar Cookie Recipe.
Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookie Recipe
A Delicious Heart-Shaped Treat
This recipe is so simple and can be used whether you are rolling out your sugar cookie dough, or pressing it into a cookie mold. For these heart-shaped sweeties, I used a beautiful cookie mold pan.
This pan is always fun to use any time of year, but for obvious reasons, it is especially nice at Valentine’s Day.
Here are a few TIPS for using a non-stick Cookie Mold Pan:
Do not over bake the cookies. The raised edges around the cookies will hold in heat while they cool.
Let the cookies cool in the pan for at least 15 minutes on a cooling rack. Then, turn the pan over and give the bottom of each shape a gentle, yet forceful, smack to release the cookies.
Remember that the cookies will raise a little during baking. You can adjust the thickness of the final bake by adding more or less dough to the mold.
Sugar Cookie Recipe
Here’s What You Need:
Butter, Sugar, Salt, Eggs, Vanilla extract, Almond extract, and Flour. Optional: Frosting or Cookie Glaze.
How-To:
Pre-heat oven to 375° F
Cream softened Butter, Sugar, and Salt until light and fluffy. (I use my new KitchenAid mixer on medium speed).
Add one Egg Yolk, beat slightly
Add one Whole Egg, Vanilla extract, and Almond extract, beat slightly. (If you don’t have almond extract, Rum extract is very tasty).
Add Flour, and beat on low until well mixed. Do not over beat. The dough will be sticky-ish.
Press dough into ungreased cookie molds. Fill each shape about half way.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until edges are slightly browned
Let cool in pan for 15 minutes
Remove cookies from pan, and finish cooling on wire racks
When cookies are room temperature, you can Frost or Glaze.
If you are Rolling your Sugar Cookie Dough to use Cookie Cutters:
Wait to pre-heat your oven
Once Dough is mixed, Divide in half and wrap in plastic wrap.
Refrigerate for at least one hour, or over night
Take sugar cookie dough out of freezer, and allow to sit at room temperature for at least 10 minutes
Pre-heat oven to 375° F
Knead dough until smooth
Sprinkle work surface and rolling pin with flour
Roll dough to 1/4 inch thickness for best results
Sprinkle flour as needed to prevent dough from sticking
Use Cookie Cutters to stamp out desired shapes
Place cookies on baking sheets covered in Parchment Paper
You can bake your cookies and they will hold their shape, but if you need them to be absolutely perfect, place prepared cookie sheets in the freezer for exactly 10 minutes to re-chill
Once re-chilled, take out of freezer and bake for 8 to 10 minutes
These cookies should not have browned edges
Now, you have the perfect Sugar Cookie
These cookies are great for sharing. We put a special package together to take to Luke’s dad for his 85th birthday this past week. He loved them!
The wrapping was simple. All it took was some wax paper and ribbon. I placed the cookies pretty side down on the wax paper, and folded the wax paper around the sugar cookies. Then, I turned the package over so the pretty side of the cookies were up, and tied my ribbon around the wax paper to hold it closed. It was a perfect old-fashioned wrapping for an old-fashioned style sugar cookie.
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Cream softened Butter, Sugar, and Salt until light and fluffy. (I use my new KitchenAid mixer on medium speed).
Add one Egg Yolk, beat slightly
Add one Whole Egg, Vanilla extract, and Almond extract, beat slightly. (If you don't have almond extract, Rum extract is very tasty).
Add Flour, and beat on low until well mixed. Do not over beat. The dough will be sticky-ish.
Press dough into ungreased cookie molds. Fill each shape about half way.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until edges are slightly browned
Let cool in pan for 15 minutes
Remove cookies from pan, and finish cooling on wire racks
When cookies are room temperature, you can Frost or Glaze.
If you are Rolling your Sugar Cookie Dough to use Cookie Cutters:
Wait to pre-heat your oven
Once Dough is mixed, Divide in half and wrap in plastic wrap.
Refrigerate for at least one hour, or over night
Take sugar cookie dough out of freezer, and allow to sit at room temperature for at least 10 minutes
Pre-heat oven to 375° F
Knead dough until smooth
Sprinkle work surface and rolling pin with flour
Roll dough to 1/4 inch thickness for best results
Sprinkle flour as needed to prevent dough from sticking
Use Cookie Cutters to stamp out desired shapes
Place cookies on baking sheets covered in Parchment Paper
You can bake your cookies and they will hold their shape, but if you need them to be absolutely perfect, place prepared cookie sheets in the freezer for exactly 10 minutes to re-chill
Once re-chilled, take out of freezer and bake for 8 to 10 minutes
To ring in December, we have some Holiday Tags with Free Printable from our Regular Contributor, Michelle James.
Hi, and welcome to December. I hope everyone in the US had a wonderful Thanksgiving and didn’t eat too much. I know I did.
Are you excited for the Holidays, or is it just another part of the year for you? I have mixed feelings. I really love the holidays once they are here, but as they are approaching, I sort of dread thinking about all that goes along with them. I guess it makes me tired.
As I said though, I do love them once they arrive.
I love to create fun digital products for the holidays including scrapbooking cards, tags, wine bottle labels, and more.
My first creation of this season is some holiday tags. They are small so can hang on a gift, or small bottle of wine. I think they are a lot of fun and can be used for many ideas.
I am going to print a couple of pages of these, cut them apart and have them ready when I need them.
My favorite way is to hang a tag on a gift along with a fun, sparkly snowflake. I got these at a discount store, and I love the way they look hanging with the tag. And you get 10 in the package. That is a great, inexpensive way to brighten up a gift.
I think they would look festive on a package as well.
I have already told you before that I love to offer a free printable to my readers and what better way to kick off the season, right?
