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Santa Claus Cutouts Recipe

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Santa turns out to be a handsome fellow when I use my favorite cutout cookie recipe. Painting on the candy coating allows for detailed decorating. My 14 shoe boxes of shaped cutters tell you how much I enjoy making cookies.

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Santa Claus Cutouts Recipe

Prep: 30 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 40 Servings

30 10 40

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
White, red and blue candy coating disks

Directions

In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until firm.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 3-in. Santa cookie cutter. Place 1 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 6-8 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool for 1 minute before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
Melt white candy coating; using a clean paintbrush, add a beard, mustache, eyebrows, hat brim and pom-pom to each Santa. Melt red coating; add hat, nose and mouth. Melt blue coating; add eyes. Let stand until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: about 3 dozen.

Originally published as Santa Claus Cutouts in Country Woman December/January 2008, p29

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Reviewed on Dec. 26, 2012 by momome01

chilled the dough for hours and was sticky and added more flour repeatedly not good.

Reviewed on Dec. 21, 2012 by sstetzel

The cookie cutter is available at multiple sites online, just search for "Santa Cookie Cutter" and you'll get a whole list of options.

Reviewed on Dec. 20, 2012 by lovetobakeeveryday

I couldn't wait to make these cookies. What a disappointment! I followed the recipe exactly and let the dough chill for 3 hours in frig. The dough was sticky and impossible to roll. I then added more flour, but still was not able to roll it out and use cookie cutters. I do not recommend this recipe!

Reviewed on Dec. 13, 2012 by SueAnnaBannana

My Grandmother use to make these cookies and we lost her cookie cutter. I would be so grateful to know where to find this cookie cutter.

Reviewed on Nov. 24, 2012 by JodyRobinson

I would love to make these cookies but I have lost my cookie cutter. Where can I purchase another one?