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White Velvet Cutouts Recipe

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We make these cutouts every Christmas and give lots of them as gifts. Last year, we baked a batch a week all through December to be sure we'd have plenty for ourselves, too. These rich cookies melt in your mouth! — Kim Hinkle, Wauseon, Ohio

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White Velvet Cutouts Recipe

Prep: 25 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min.

Yield: 42 Servings

25 10 35

Ingredients

2 cups butter, softened
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
2 cups sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
BUTTER CREAM FROSTING:
3-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, divided
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 tablespoon shortening
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 to 4 tablespoons 2% milk, divided
Red and/or green food coloring, optional

Directions

In a large bowl, cream the butter and cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Gradually add flour and mix well. Cover and chill 2 hours or until firm.
Roll out on a floured surface to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut into 3-in. shapes; place 1 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until set (not browned). Cool 5 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool.
For frosting, combine 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, butter, shortening, vanilla and 3 tablespoons milk in a large bowl; beat until smooth. Gradually add remaining sugar; beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add enough remaining milk and food coloring until frosting reaches desired consistency. Frost cookies. Yield: about 7 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 2 cookies equals 233 calories, 12 g fat (7 g saturated fat), 42 mg cholesterol, 114 mg sodium, 30 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as White Velvet Cutouts in Taste of Home December/January 1997, p25

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Reviewed on Dec. 31, 2012 by shaz

Made these cookies when my kids were little. Lost the recipe. Glad I found it again. Yumy cookie!!!

Reviewed on Dec. 24, 2012 by mauishores

This is the only cutout recipe I use. I substitute almond extract for the vanilla.

Reviewed on Dec. 23, 2012 by hunter6295

The best cutout cookies ever! Have been making for many years now.

Reviewed on Feb. 11, 2012 by momof29

must have for christmas.

Reviewed on Dec. 26, 2011 by Miamommy

This is the recipe I keep going back to. I'm going to try to roll log style and slice to save time when needed as another reviewer did.

Reviewed on Dec. 22, 2011 by dkorgeron

I have made these cookies during the holidays for years. Now, both my sister and mother are making them too!

Reviewed on Dec. 19, 2011 by Luckystar1534

Best cutout recipe that I have found.

Reviewed on Dec. 18, 2011 by HappyPappyCook

I am sooo glad they are now online so I don't have to search through stacks of TOH magazines!

Reviewed on Dec. 18, 2011 by HappyPappyCook

I have made these cookies almost every year since they were in the original magazine. These are by far the best cutouts I have ever had and I always get rave reviews on them! I highly recommend adding these to your annual christmas baking, guarenteed you will make them every year!

Reviewed on Dec. 18, 2011 by mauishores

It's the week before Christmas and I'm back for this recipe - my very favorite cookie cutout recipe! I starting using this years ago when it appeared in a TOH magazine and there is no way I'd use another. I add extra almond flavor for an even richer cookie. They literally melt in your mouth.

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