Football Sugar Cookies – Perfect for Game Time!

It’s no secret with my family – I love making sugar cookies. I have a giant collection of cookie cutters that I have collected over the years. We have used them for cookie making, play-dough cutting, ceramic templating, and crayon outlining.  The kids and I have used them for all kinds of crafts over the years.

With such a big collection, I was surprised when I went to make cookies for a Super Bowl Party that I didn’t have a jersey or helmet cookie cutter.  I did have a football, but I wanted to create an assortment of cookies to bring to the party.  I was happy to find the Wilton collection of four cutters – the day was saved!

It’s also no secret with my family that for many years I would just buy a tube of Pillsbury Sugar Cookie dough and roll that out, cut out my many fun shapes, and then decorate. For me, the fun was in the decorating!

I used to use little tiny paint brushes to “paint my cookies”.  Then I would sprinkle all kinds of colored sugars on them.  I was thrilled when I found a tiny store called Cake Works in a strip mall in San Jose. They sold so many baking supplies!  This was years before Michael’s and the many craft stores that now sell so many fun and fabulous supplies.

Then Martha Stewart began featuring sugar cookies in her magazine, and I learned how to outline and float my icing! Good-bye paint brush and hello icing bags and tips.  Or in the early days – a corner clipped Ziploc baggie!

Eventually as the kids got older, I began to actually bake my sugar cookies from scratch.  There are many good recipes out there and they are not hard to put together.  For me the hard part is in the planning!  Sugar cookie dough needs to be chilled before you roll it out and cut it.  That takes time, that in my busy day is not always available.  And honestly, no one ever complained about my sugar cookies from a tube as they gobbled them up.

When I do bake sugar cookies from scratch these days I use recipe that I found on Annies-Eats.com a few years back.  Her sugar cookie feels like a grown up version because she has added almond flavoring to the dough.  And yes, the kids still love them!

Ella’s White Sugar Cookies

Source Annies-eats.com

Ingredients 

• 1 cup butter at room temperature
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 1/2 t. almond extract
• 1 t. vanilla
• 1 t. salt
• 2 1/2 c. sifted flour

DIRECTIONS

• Cream butter and powdered sugar.
• Blend in egg, almond extract, vanilla, salt and flour.
• Chill dough until firm.
• Roll to 1/4” thickness on well-floured surface.
• Cut with cookie cutters and place on greased cookie sheets.
• Bake at 375° for 8-10 min. Cookies should not brown.
• Frost and decorate when cool.

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