If you are about to make some cookies for your Christmas gathering, try the Queen of Christmas, Mariah Carey’s sugar cookie recipe which she recently shared with Vogue. It is super easy to make and comes together in a stand mixer. Moreover, you can bake this with your kids, making it a wholesome parent-child bonding experience for the holiday season. Your children can use cookie cutters of various shapes to cut their Christmas cookies into cute shapes. In addition, decorating their sugar cookies with different colored icing is something your tiny tots will love to do. Of course, they might not look perfect but they are your child’s creations, so display them proudly on the dinner table so everyone knows who deserves the credit. Everyone will surely love Mariah Carey’s Christmas cookie recipe, so give it a try to bring some festive cheer to your celebration.
Ingredients for Mariah Carey’s sugar cookie recipe
- Butter
- Sugar
- Eggs
- All-purpose flour (keep some extra for dusting)
- Vanilla extract
Preparation for Mariah Carey’s sugar cookie recipe
- To start making Mariah Carey’s Christmas cookie recipe, put butter and sugar in a stand mixer. Blend it until it comes together and turns light and fluffy. The mixture will stick to the appliance, so scrape it back into the mixer bowl.
- Then, add eggs and vanilla extract to the bowl and mix again.
- Now, while the wet ingredients are going, slowly add flour in small batches to the mixture. Do not turn off the stand mixture while adding the flour.
- Once the mixture comes together and forms a dough, stop the appliance.
- Now, dust some flour on your work bench and lay some cling film on it. Drop the dough on the film and wrap it. Refrigerate the dough for 1-2 hours.
- Remove the dough after 1-2 hours and roll them on a floured surface. Keep rolling them out till slightly thick.
- Now, let the kids take their favorite cookie cutters and cut the dough into their favorite shapes. They can take their picks from festive shapes like snowflakes and candy canes. Top tip from Carey: put the cookie cutter in the flour so that “you don’t mess it up.”
- Place the shapes on a baking tray (lined with parchment paper) and put them in the oven till they turn slightly golden.
- Once baked, let it cool on the tray for a few minutes before placing it on the cooling rack.
- Now, it’s time to decorate Mariah Carey’s Christmas cookie. Make different colored icing like white, red, blue, and so on, and let your kids decorate the cookies the way they like. Let it set completely before adding edible glitter on top of the cookies.
Serve Mariah Carey’s Christmas cookie recipe to the crowd along with hot chocolate, as the icon did. Everyone will surely love this recipe! You can also use a hand mixer if that is what you have. So, go get the ingredients and make this recipe with your loved ones this holiday season. While you are working on the sugar cookie recipe, don’t forget to jam to Mariah Carey’s classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and some of her newer tracks to get in the festive spirit.
