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Today’s Recipe
On the seventh day of our 12 Days of Christmas in July Giveaway, my true love gave to me…these Quick and Easy Shortbread Cookies from Gourmac! 
INGREDIENTS
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar
- 2 cups flour
DIRECTIONS
Mix all ingredients together until they become a smooth dough. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Dip a cookie stamp into powdered sugar or flour and then press the stamp into a ball of dough. Repeat for each ball. Bake at 350°F for 15-18 minutes.
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Gourmac is the gourmet division of Hutzler Manufacturing, which has been making cookie cutters since 1902. Hutzler continues to innovate that original cookie cutter through its Gourmac brand. Don’t simply make cookies in basic shapes; with this Santa’s Kitchen Cookie Stamp Set your kids can press designs right into their favorite cookies. Make a new tradition at Christmas time and use cookie stamps for your holiday treats.
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I don’t like shortbread or sugar cookies at Christmas time, and nothing with frosting on it. But I do love a good ol’fashioned peanut butter cookie!
I don’t like traditional shortbread or sugar cookies with frosting on them. I do however like a good ol’ peanut butter cookie or the occasional gingersnap without frosting on it.
Our favorite Christmas cookie is a fudge cookie with mint chips! When I found the recipe, it called for crushed peppermint and I substituted it with the green mint morsels and we are, well…addicted! lol
I am not a lover of shortbread cookies but I got a daughter who loves them.I am a person who loves anything with marshmellow .
I am a traditionalist, my favorite Cookie is a soft sugar cookie.
oatmeal raisin cookies,followed by gingerbread men cookies
sugar cookies
I love to make Old Fashioned Sugar cookies for the Holidays. It’s fun for the whole family to help decorate and to share the cookies with family and friends
Cookie cutter butter cookies with sprinkles.My kids love to help every year.
Love making sugar cookies for my grandchildren
I love my mom’s recipe for date pinwheel cookies.
Sugar Cookies
my favorite christmas cookie recipe is a sugar cookie
I make baklava every Christmas; which has become a fav with friends & family.
My most favorite cookie is the Russian Tea cake. I only make these for Christmas Gifts along with Almond Roca and Chocolate peanut butter dips.
Peanut Butter Gingerbread cookies! So wonderfully comforting on cool night with a cup of cider or coffee.
I love oatmeal raisin cookies
My favorite Christmas cookie recipe is just chocolate chip.
I make a cream cheese sugar cookie that my kids adore! We either roll and cut them or use stamps.
My family loves snicker doodles and peanut butter chocolate no bakes.
Has to be a good ole sugar cookie recipe
I always make pecan butterscotch chip cookies at Christmas – thanks.
chocolate oatmeal no bakes.
My favorite cookie is White choclate Macadamia Nut
My favorite Christmas cookie recipe is frosted sugar cookies.
My Favourite Christmas cookie is Shortbread, that is the only time I have shortbread cookies is at Christmas!
Sugar Cookies
My family has always loved Iced sugar cookies. Yum!
My mom’s chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. A nice crisp cookie great with milk.
Decorated sugar cookies are a family favorite here.
My husband’s favorite is sugar-free flour-free peanut butter (no cholesterol), but mine is probably my grandma’s blonde graham cracker brownies.
We use a sugar cookie dough recipe that is titled “Best Rolled Sugar Cookies Ever” 🙂
My favorite recipe is for buttery sugar cookies.
I love the sugar cookies with the red and green sprinkles.
I made gingerbread cookie cups and filled them with a cream cheese mixture. So. GOOD! I have a problem with willpower around them…
Shortbread cookies are one of my favorites.
Good old fashioned sugar cookies.
My favorite is cranberry walnut biscotti.
I want a really good sugar cookie recipe for cookies that can be decorated and used in cookie cutters, but I don’t have one yet!
My Daughter found an eggnog cookie recipe that we like to make at Christmas time
They are all my favorite, but probably my tip top very favorite is snowball cookies (aka butterballs, Russian tea cakes or Mexican wedding cookies).
I have a sugar cookie recipe that melts in your mouth that we all love!
chocolate lace cookies are my favorite, but i do love a basic sugar cookie with icing!
Hmm…I have really good sugar cookie and gingerbread cookie recipes, but I do love triple ginger cookies!
Sugar cookies at Christmas time for sure. With frosting!
Sugar cookies
Our family favorite is still the simple cutout cookies with sprinkles. I can’t keep them on the plate.
I don’t have a FAV Christmas cookie but my FAV cookie recipe is a chocolate chip cook dough with rice Krispies added to the mix
My favorite Christmas cookie recipe is a family recipe for Norwegian kringla cookies that we make every year! We make them into figure eights or bow ties, and when they’re baked we put peanut butter, or butter and sugar on them and enjoy! Thank you so much for the chance to win!
My favorite Christmas cookie recipe is sugar cookies with lemon sugar icing.
My favorite Christmas cookie recipe is my great great grandmother’s pizzelle cookie!
Chocolate chip & raisin cookies.
Thumbprint cookies with homemade strawberry jam in the center!
I love to make my Grandma’s decorated sugar cookies from her recipe. It’s a tradition every year.
Either a decadent chocolate cookie or pumpkin pie spice sugar cookies that are so tender they melt in your mouth.
My favorite Christmas cookie recipe is the Gingerbread Cookie with M&M’s as eyes.
My favorite to make is Sugar Cookies but my most requested cookie to make is my Snowball cookies!
Shortbread are actually one of favorite cookies. I don’t have them very often.
Snow balls which are toasted pecan cookies that are rolled in powdered sugar.
My favorite is a chocolate chip cookie recipe.
I haven’t met a cookie I don’t like. Of course chocolate chip is #1 with a good fudge cookie a definite runner up.
Mine is Chocolate Chip Cookies.
My favorite is my aunt’s Czechoslovakian nut rolls followed by her filled cookies and her cut outs.