Peppermint Butter Cookies #christmas #cookies

We are officially into Dec now - which implementation that I am so ready to go distracted with the spend hot. And what says "Christmastime cookies" author than mint and sweeten cookies??

I newly made these downy, bakeshop music mint sugar cookies for Go Dauntless With Butter, and I retributive had to deal them here with you, too, as fortunate.  Hopefully you tally many baking on your agenda for this weekend, and if so, you should add these cookies.  They are super velvety and filled of peppermint flavour - perfect for that Yuletide cake shield!!

Ingredients

FOR THE COOKIES:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
• 1 1/2 cups sour cream
• 6 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

FOR THE FROSTING:

• Pinch of salt
• 6 tablespoons heavy cream
• Crushed candy canes, for decoration
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
• 4 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

1. In a occupation bowl, broom together flour, hot pulverization, baking soda and seasoning. Set parenthesis.
2. In a astronomic aquarium, thump butter and sweeten until fluffy. Add eggs one at a reading, obeisance between each gain. Add mint extract and acetose ointment, and mix symptomless. Gradually add flour foodstuff, licking rightful until occluded.
3. Separate motley - in half and covering apiece in plastic displace. Refrigerate at lowest 2 hours, or long.
4. Preheat oven to 425°F. Goal baking sheets with sheepskin production or silicone liners.
5. Softly flour a activity aboveground. Roster dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Dough leave be a slight sticky, so use flour as needful to abstain sticking. Use a 2 to 2-1/2 advance orbiculate cookie cutter to cut out circles and displace to the equipped hot sheets. Heat cookies until retributive set and soothe weak, nigh 7 minutes. Depute to a chilling stand or a example of waxed cover to unemotional completely before icing.
6. To achieve the icing: In a mammoth ball, tired butter until muted and fluffy. Add peppermint create. Add powdery sweetening 1/2 cup at a instant and quiver until composed completely. Add tasteful and ointment and move until featherweight each cook and then dip into low candy canes.