Making Christmas cookies....Mexican style! :)

Some people take great pride in carefully following a set recipe, whether it be from Betty Crocker or handed down from 5 family generations. For my family however, we have many unique ways we make a variety of food and it has always been to my satisfaction, I think my opinion is valid since I am extremely hard to please when it comes to food, I am the ultimate picky eater! My mom's style has always been to just throw it all in no measuring no nothing just guesstimate! But to make it a little simpler to understand numbers are provided

Christmas cookies (frosting) you'll need:

1/4 cup of Milk your choice.

One stick of butter

1 Cup of Confectionary sugar (for thickness and flavor)

food coloring

For the cookies:

All purpose flour to prevent sticking

Pillsbury Sugar cookie mix

Holiday Cookie Cutter of shape of choice

Wax cooking sheet

Step 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Step 2.  Prepare dough by removing from package. Roll dough into a dough like your playing with playdough, until it's round like a flattened snowball or ball, whichever you prefer and using a rolling pin flattened dough until it is semi thick, not too thick but not too thin because then the shapes after imprinting into dough will be harder to remove from the dough sheet and will brake in the oven during baking.

Step 3. This is the tricky part, placing cookies into oven you sort of guestimate when to take them out, by watching as the cookies rise and noticing how developed the outer portion of the cookie is in order to determine if it is ready to be cooled off. It helps if you have an oven light to watch as the cookies rise.

Step 4. Prepare frosting by mixing into a measuring cup or bowl, with 1/4 cup of milk, stick of butter, 1 cup of confectionary sugar, quickly mix ingredients, and add food coloring. If the frosting appears lumpy this is ok, it will still go on smoothly to cookie but it will be a bit more messy so it is important not to let the butter settle during mixing. If frosting appears to runny add more sugar as a medium.

Step 5. Spread, sprinkle, let dry, serve, enjoy!

Spread!

This is what happens if the dough wasn't spread right!

Sprinkle and enjoy! :)