Cut Out Sugar Cookies

If you’ve ever made cut out cookies from scratch, you know how much work it is! As most of you have figured out, I’m a lazy cook. Never again will I make sugar cut outs from scratch. I have now found a brilliant short cut! Thanks to Trader Joes. Trader Joes’s is a new grocery store in town that is one hot place. There is a huge Trader Joe craze in Des Moines right now and I’m lovin it too. Trader Joe’s is a national retailer and you may have one close by.

Buy a box of Trader Joe’s Workshop Cookies (may only be available at Christmas time). These cookies are amazing! Taste just like from scratch. Welp, I decided that these could be improved. How? Ditch the frosting that comes with it and make your own frosting from scratch. DELICIOUS!

Cut Out Sugar Cookies

Make a box of Trader Joe’s Workshop Cookies as directed on box, throw away frosting packets.
Frosting recipe came from a gal at work; I LOVE almond extract and altered her recipe a bit to make the frosting less runny (she had way more milk than I would have and I omitted the stick butter she had in her recipe, so here it is…)

Frosting:

1 cup of powdered sugar

3 Tbsp of milk

¼ tsp of vanilla extract

¼ tsp of almond extract

Mix ingredients with a wooden spoon in bowl. Use a spreading knife and frost each cookie. Top each cookie with sprinkles that came in the cookie box mix. Let frosting set up before putting up the cookies.


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