Cooking-Crafting-Couponing: Holy Christmas Angel Cookies

Happy Saturday! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Julianne’s adorable little sister Laura. OK, so maybe it’s not appropriate to call me adorable at the ripe old age of 23… but I’ll take what I can get.

You’re probably thinking “Wow! I bet homemaking skills run RAMPANT in that family!” Let’s not get ahead of ourselves… I can bake a sweet treat and sew a button back on a shirt, but that’s pretty much where my expertise ends. God bless the man that ends up with me, we’re probably going to have cereal for dinner every night.*

As Julianne’s very FIRST guest blogger**, I’ve decided to get into the Christmas spirit with some delicious Christmas cookies! As with most recipes we women get these days, I found this one on Pinterest. It’s somewhat between a sugar cookie and a Snickerdoodle, and it is the PERFECT classic cookie to bring to your cookie exchange this year! Here they are: Holy Christmas Angel Cookies (I’m calling them this because they tasted heavenly. Also it’s a pretty Christmas-y name, don’t ya think?)

*You really can’t put a price on a good cereal-to-milk ratio.

**She didn’t know I was going to be a guest blogger until I told her.

Yield: 5 dozen

(I halved this since I have no use for 60 cookies)

Ingredients:

1 cup softened butter

1 cup shortening

1 2/3 cup sugar

½ cup brown sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

4 cups flour

2 teaspoons cream of tartar

1 ½ teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar OR sugar sprinkles, as decoration

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. In a medium-sized bowl, whisk the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

3. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the shortening, butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla.

(This is the moment when I decided this recipe was bloggable.)

4. Gradually add in the dry ingredients, scraping the sides of the bowl down with a rubber spatula when needed. Make sure all ingredients are well incorporated.