Decorated Cut-out Cookies Without Frosting

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 (17 1/2 ounce) package refrigerated sugar cookie dough
• 1/3 cup cream cheese, softened in microwave for 45 seconds
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract
• 3 tablespoons cake flour
• food coloring
• milk

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl, stir together all ingredients until they form a ball.
• 2 chill for 30 minutes.
• 3 remove 1/4 to 1/3 of the dough and set it aside in a sealed container.
• 4 color the remaining cookie dough with green food coloring to desired color shade.
• 5 roll cookie dough onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
• 6 cut trees with a tree shaped cookie cutter and remove the outside pieces of dough. (knead outside pieces into a ball so that you can redo this same process on the next cookie sheet).
• 7 taking out the portion which you set aside in step #2, divide it up into small groups depending on the number of colors you want your balls/garland to be.
• 8 color each small group with food coloring and add tiny amounts of milk until it gets to the consistency that it can be piped through a pastry/decorating bag.
• 9 pipe your balls/and or garland colored cookie dough unto the unbaked trees. bake in a preheated oven to 375 degrees farenheit for about 12 minutes.
• 10 you will have beautifully decorated cookies without the added frosting and everyone will wonder how you did it.