Oh, What Fun! Christmas Blog Party: Christmas Treats

Do you make any special treats for the holidays?
It’s a tradition to go to my grandparents’ house (on my mom’s side) and make walnut muffins and fudge. We usually make two or three kinds of fudge. I also like to make sugar cookies (I have a basic recipe I use and just experiment until I figure out new flavors that work well).

How do you feel about peppermint?
Love it. In hot chocolate, cookies, candy canes….

Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate? If you like hot chocolate, do you prefer marshmallows or no marshmallows?
Hot chocolate for me, with marshmallows please. :)

Do you leave out the traditional cookies and milk for Santa, or a different snack?
When I was little, we usually left out sugar cookies and a Coke.

Favorite Christmas dinner dish?
Probably the turkey and the ham. 

And here’s a sugar cookie recipe for you!

A note on this recipe: I basically started it by throwing stuff in a bowl to see how it turned out, so you can adapt it to whatever texture/sweetness you prefer. When mixing the dough by hand, I mostly use melted butter; softened should be fine if you’re using an electric mixer though.

Ingredients:
2 cups self-rising flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup butter (softened/melted—can add more if/as needed)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg

Combine flour, salt, and sugar. Add vanilla and egg. Mix, then add butter until dough is ready to be kneaded. Roll out on flour-dusted surface and shape with cutters. Bake at 300 until bottoms are light brown.