This particular version comes from a collection called Happy Holiday Cookies, which featured festive treats you could bake and give as gifts. The cookie dough is simple and sturdy, just right for rolling and cutting into shapes. The real fun comes with the painting part, using small brushes and as many colors as you want. It’s a hands-on way to bring a little art to your holiday baking.
Happy holiday paintbrush cookies
Paintbrush Cookies, Chocolate Thumbprints, Christmas Stockings… twelve tempting homemades, all just as good as they look! Easy to bake, fun to give (and get). And you know they’ll turn out wonderful, because you bake them better with Gold Medal Flour. It’s the flower of the wheat! So Merry Christmas and Happy Baking!
Bake it Better with Gold Medal
Holiday paintbrush cookies
Let yourself go, create your own designs. The lively colors never fade.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup soft shortening (part butter)
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. flavoring (vanilla or lemon)
- 2-1/2 cups sifted GOLD MEDAL Flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
Instructions
- Mix well shortening, sugar, egg, flavoring.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and stir in. Chill at least 1 hr.
- Heat oven to 400 F (mod. hot). Roll out 1/4 of dough at a time 1/8" thick on lightly floured board. Keep rest of dough chilled.
- Cut in desired shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheet.
- Paint with Egg Yolk Paint.
- Bake 6 to 8 minutes, until set but not brown. Makes about 4 dozen cookies.
Egg yolk paint recipe
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/4 tsp. water
- Blend well egg yolk, water.
- Divide into two small custard cups. Color as desired.
- Paint designs on cookies with small paintbrushes, using a separate brush for each color. For more colors, make more paint.
Success tip: If Egg Yolk Paint thickens on standing, add a few drops of water.
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One Response
HELP! I am looking for the pamphlet that the painted Christmas cookie recipe was attached to. The recipe I am looking for was I think sugar cookie shaped like a Santa boot and filled with nuts, choc chips, and candied fruit. Would you happen to have that recipe?