Mitten Cookies
A fun, festive Christmas cookie! These Basket Weave Mitten Cookies are a soft and crispy sugar cookie perfect for the holidays and your next cookie exchange!
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks or 226g) unsalted butter
- 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp. almond extract
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 3 cups (360g) all-purpose flour
- Red and green food coloring
- Buttercream if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Add butter to the bowl of your stand mixer and cream on medium-high for 1-2 minutes, or until butter is smooth and lighter in color.
- With the mixer on low slowly add in the sugar, and then the egg. Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl if necessary.
- Turn mixer back on low and add in extracts.
- Add in the baking powder and flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until fully incorporated.
- Separate your dough into two equal sections.
- Place one section on a parchment paper lined countertop and add in about 1 tsp red food coloring and knead with your hands until color is incorporated.
- Repeat with your other dough and the green food coloring.
- Trim edges so you have straight even sides.
- Cut your rectangles into 1-inch strips.
- Weave your red strips over and under the green strips, creating a basket like appearance. (see video)
- Slightly press down with rolling pin to seal together.
- Using a 3" mitten cookie cutter, cut out shapes and place on ungreased cookie sheet. You will have extra dough, so press together to create multi-colored cookies which you can use the cookie cutter to cut out as well or just flatten into circles.
- Bake for about 8-10 minutes or until they are lightly browned.
- Remove to cooling rack to cool completely.
- Decorate bottoms with buttercream if desired. You can use a #21 or #32 tip and pipe out the fluffy bottom edge.