| OUR ULTIMATE GUIDE TO | Holiday Cgokigs martha stewartOne Master Recipe, 30 Ways Our versatile recipe lends itself to multiple decorations, flavorings, mix-ins, and shapes. Pick and mix your favorites, then sprinkle, glaze, and decorate! Basic Vanilla Cookie Dough 3 cups unbleached purpose flour °4_ teaspoon baking powder (omit if making thumbprints, ball ‘cookies, or spritz cookies), ¥e teaspoon kosher sat 2 sticks salted butter 1 eupsugar 1 large egg 2. teaspoons pure vanilla extract 4. Whisk together flour, beking powder, and salt ina lange bow. Beat ‘butter and sugar witha mixer on medium-high speed unt ale and ‘uty. Heat in egg and vanilla Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture, ‘nd beat until combined. For tinted cookies, add drops of gel-paste ood coloring ance the flour is incorporated. Dough can be ‘refrigerated overnight or frozen for up to | month, Proceed with one ‘ofthe methods below, I VARIATIONS | ‘SPICE COOKIE DOUGH: Add 14 teaspoons ground cinnamon, ‘teaspoon ground ginger, % teaspoon ground allspice, and teaspoon, freshly round pepper when you add the flour mixture, ‘CHOCOLATE COOKIE DOUGH Replace ¥ cup flour with ¥ cup Duteh= process cocoa powder: CrTRUS COOKE DOUGH: Replace vanilla extract with teaspoon finely grated cits zest and Tablespoon fresh citrus juice Essential Tools | For Cutout t For Glazed For leebox Cookies: Cookies: a rolling | Spritz Cookies: a bread knife (1) pin, cookie cutters, a cookie press. | and a pastry tip For Thumbprints and Ball Cookies: no special equipment necessary ~ just two han¢ 1 curcounisre cube To noupaycooarsMETHOD #1 Roll, press, bake, fill or simply roll and bake MARBLEIZING TECHNIQUE Roll outa; inch thick rope of Chocolate Dough. Roll out a 3 inch thick rope of Vanilla Dough. Pinch off a Sipinch piece from each rope. Roll together into I ball 2 cuncowmter= cune To HOLIDAY COOKES ‘Thumbprints and Ball Cookies: 1. Apnicor THUMBPRINTS: 1b ‘hooped pistachios (aptonal = 2} RASPBERRY THUMBPRINTS: {butch Chocolate or Varia Dough + % cup chopped pistachios ar sanding sugar option 3 GANACHE THUMBPRINTS: 1 batch Chocolte Dough (oe Baten ‘Yeap ershed peppermints +1 bateh Gorache (se below 4 DrteD-#RUrT THUMBPRINTS: Daten Chocolate Dough 5} CANDIED ORANGE PEEL THUMBPRINTS: 1 batch Cnacolte rmarolezed + 1 cup chopped candied orange eel, 6 1 CHOCOLATE-DIPPED BALL COOKIES: 13th Chocoiste Dough Sis cupemetes enaclats (12 ounces cup ewrhed Peppers (ap cools cookies in meted chocolate: pink with 7} MARBLEIZED BALL COOMIES: 1 bate Chocolate Dough +5 batch Vania Dough, marbeized = cup sting sugar fpsons) 8 1 PEPPERMINT BALL COOKIES: 1 batch Chocolat Dough +1 up 1 oll dough into t-inch balls then rollin finely chopped nuts, erushed candies, or sanding sugar, Fusing. range on parchment lined baking sheets, spacing each inch part. 2 For thumbprint: Press a well int the center of each using your finger Refrigerate unt frm, about 30 minutes Bake at 380° for? minutes. Remove from oven, and press well again with handle end ofa wooden spoon, Bake unt frm, 7 t0 8 minutes more, Let cool completely, Spoon fling into ehumbprints For ball okies: Refrigerate until fir, about 80 minutes. Bake at 350° ‘uo im, 1 to 16 minutes. Let cool completely. Ganache 1 cup heavy cream, gently simmered 8 ounces chopped bittersweet chocolate 4. Pour cream over chocolate et stand for S minutes. Stir until smooth. Let stand until mixture is spoonabl,sbout 15 minutes,