Name: Sourdough Cut Out Sugar Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Ingredients: 1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature; ¾ cup sugar; 1 egg; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; ¼ cup sourdough discard; ½ teaspoon baking soda; 2 ½ cups flour; ½ teaspoon salt

It’s not Christmas without cookies to decorate! Get into the holiday spirit with some sourdough cut out sugar cookies this year. It makes the perfect holiday activity to do with the kids one afternoon. Or by yourself. We can all enjoy making cookies. They can be wrapped up as a gift for grandparents or other loved ones or eaten while sipping hot cocoa.

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Are You Nuts?

My first year teaching in a special education preschool class, I decided to let them decorate cookies at our Christmas party. These were mostly 3 year olds, mind you. So here I come with cookies, icing, and sprinkles. My para showed up and saw me preparing the activity. Her eyes popped out of her head when she saw me. With great trepidation she asked what the plan was for the day. Needless to say that it was an absolute disaster. Ever since then, we’ve just watched the Polar Express and eaten popcorn.

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Why Sourdough?

Sourdough was used by people to leaven bread before they were able to go to the store and by those little yeast packets. Sourdough is the old-fashioned yeast packet.

Grains contain phytic acid, but our bodies don’t really process it well. Phytic acid prevents our bodies from absorbing the nutrients from our food. Fermentation gets rid of most, if not all of the phytic acid, in the grains before we eat them. The fermentation process also helps break down some gluten, so although the bread isn’t gluten free it does have a lower gluten content. This allows people like me, who are sensitive to gluten, to eat sourdough. It also acts like a probiotic, which makes it great for gut health. Sourdough has prebiotic characteristics as well, which simply means that the good bacteria in your gut enjoy eating the fiber.

Sourdough Cut Out Sugar Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature

¾ cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

¼ cup sourdough discard

½ teaspoon baking soda

2 ½ cups flour

½ teaspoon salt

Instructions

Start by creaming one stick of butter room temperature butter and ¾ cup of sugar together.
Next add one egg, one teaspoon of vanilla extract, and ¼ cup of sourdough discard and mix until combined.
Then add in 2 ½ cups of flour, ½ teaspoon of baking soda, and ½ teaspoon of salt. Mix until well combined.
Now it is time to roll out the dough . Put a piece of parchment down on the counter. I suggest using another piece of parchment on top to keep the rolling pin from sticking. Roll until it is about ¼ inch thick.
After the dough is rolled out, let it chill in the fridge for at least an hour. If you wish to have the flour ferment, it can be left for up to 4 days.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Then use cookie cutters to cut out your desired shapes.
Place the cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Once they are cooled, you can move on to icing and decorating the sourdough cut out sugar cookies.

Sourdough Cut Out Sugar Cookies Icing Recipe

Ingredients

2 cups powdered sugar

3 tablespoons water

4 ½ teaspoons meringue powder

Instructions

Using a handheld mixer or the whisk attachment on your KitchenAid, mix 2 cups powdered sugar, 3 tablespoons of room temp water and 4 ½ teaspoons of meringue powder together until peaks start to form. You can add food coloring if you wish. If it’s too thick, add more water 1 tablespoon at a time. If it’s too thin, add 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar at a time.
Then scoop the icing into a piping bag. Cut off the tip of the bag to start decorating your sourdough cut out sugar cookies.

Sourdough Cut Out Sugar Cookies

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Additional Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients

1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature
¾ cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup sourdough discard
½ teaspoon baking soda
2 ½ cups flour
½ teaspoon salt

Instructions

Start by creaming one stick of butter room temperature butter and ¾ cup of sugar together.
Next add one egg, one teaspoon of vanilla extract, and ¼ cup of sourdough discard and mix until combined.
Then add in 2 ½ cups of flour, ½ teaspoon of baking soda, and ½ teaspoon of salt. Mix until well combined.
Now it is time to roll out the dough . Put a piece of parchment down on the counter. I suggest using another piece of parchment on top to keep the rolling pin from sticking. Roll until it is about ¼ inch thick.
After the dough is rolled out, let it chill in the fridge for at least one hour. If you wish to have the flour ferment, it can be left for up to 4 days.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Then use cookie cutters to cut out your desired shapes.
Place the cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Once they are cooled, you can move on to icing and decorating the sourdough cut out sugar cookies.