Just found my long-lost cookie cutters - now ISO great recipe to use them with!

[TerriL]

Does anyone have a favorite cutout cookie recipe? Icing/frosting recipe also appreciated. Thanks!

[ttoommyy]

The Rich Rolled Sugar Cookie recipe from the Joy of Cooking is my go-to recipe.I found a link to it here http://www.recipelink.com/mf/31/42108 but I can't vouch for the accuracy of it. You may want to check out the recipe in the book itself. I also use the royal icing recipe form the JOC to decorate them or if I am feeling a bit lazy, I use rolled fondant.

[ttoommyy]

The cookies in the attached photo is a combination of all three that I mentioned above: rich rolled sugar cookie, fondant and royal icing,

[dberg1313]

Two very good ones, available online - the one at King Arthur Flour, and one from Land o'Lakes. Both handle easily and make a tasty cookie. I make hundreds of roll & cutout cookies at Christmas with a whole bunch of little kids, and these are my two go-tos. The only difference in them is, the Land o'Lakes recipe calls for orange juice. You don't end up with a strong taste of orange, but probably other citrus would work as well.

[katecm]

My hands-down favorite cookies are cream cheese sugar cookies with royal icing. There are lots of recipes online.

[HillJ]

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/gingerbread_man_cookies/

Great timing for this question, because my niece and I have been baking gingerbread cookies all afternoon. Just finishing up the dog patch cutters now. We loved this recipe.

http://thecookiecuttershop.com/recipe...
My niece turned me onto this blogger for some fun reading and ideas before we got started today.