Recipe for Pie Crust Christmas Cookies

Don't you just love the Christmas holidays?

What I love most about it is the cookies and candies that

represent Christmas, family, and eating.

I would be completely content with holiday food over any

kind of gifts. That's just the way I roll....

 I love preparing for the baking day.

Gathering cookie cutters (first locating them from their yearly hiding place),

sprinkles

cookie sheets

rolling pins

and pastry cloth. 

 This year I decided to try a little something different.

Don't get me wrong,

I love my family tradition cut-out cookies

(the best in the world),

but I'm thinking pie crust.

I love pie crust!

And sprinkled with cinnamon/sugar.....

It's the BOMB!

So, I'm making pie crust cookies.....

 The pie crust recipe that I used sort of represents a sugar cookie,

and I'm even considering making a pie with it

(not a pie maker here),

because this crust recipe comes together great and is so easy to work with.

 Since the photos of these cookies turned out

AWE(use high pitch)SOME!

I thought I would continue the holiday spirit and have you

look at all of them.....

Well, you don't have to if you don't want to.

Myself, I love looking at pictures.
Below you find some great Christmas cookie recipes
and lots of pictures.....

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 Here is the recipe!

Pie Crust Christmas Cookies

1 egg

6 TBS sugar

1 pinch salt

3 c. all-purpose flour

1 c. cold butter cut into pieces

4 TBS water

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

In a small bowl mix egg and sugar together. In a separate bowl, combine salt and flour. Cut in butter using a pastry blender until tiny crumb form. Stir in egg mixture, then knead dough into a smooth ball. As I was kneading I added the water. I only used 4 TBS to form a soft dough. Wrap in saran and place in refrigerator for 15 minutes.

Roll dough to 1/4 in. thick and use floured cookie cutters to cut out shapes. Repeat until all dough is used. Sprinkle with cinnamon/sugar mixture (heavy), and sprinkle with colored sugar. Bake in oven for 8-10 minutes. Keep an eye on them because you don't want them to get too brown. When the bottoms start to brown is when I took mine out.

This recipe is linked to:
Weekend Potluck ~ The Better Baker
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