Vanilla Honey Sugar Cookies

These Christmas sugar cookie cutouts turn out soft every time and are loaded with fluffy vanilla honey buttercream. They turn out great with gluten free flour too.

I've been searching for the perfect recipe for sugar cookie cutouts for a looooong time. Like, for a bazillion and a half years.
Just kidding, I've only been searching for 19 years. Because from the second that I was born I was thinking about it. For realz.

And now, after years of experimenting and searching, I've finally mastered the art of sugar cookie making. These babies are soft and flavorful without spreading on the sheet or being to fragile to decorate. The most important part is using powdered sugar to roll them out instead of flour. It helps them to not dry out and gives them a thin, sweet layer of crispiness when they come out.

I made these on Saturday because we were having our cousins over for a cookie decorating party. Two of my mom's sisters and one of her brothers came with their kids. That's seven additional children not counting the seven of us hooligans that already live here. Crazy times, what what! And that's not even counting the aunts and uncles and parents who are actually just a bunch of big kids too. In fact, they probably had more fun decorating the cookies than the kids did. And we also had fun hot tubbing, guitar and banjo jamming, and pizza gorging.

The best part of these cookies is the buttercream. The relatives when CRAZY for this. It's not too sweet. It's buttery and smooth and wonderful. It would be great for frosting a cake.

That's only half of what I made. And we definitely ate ALL of it. Ever last bit. Not kidding.

Das ist mine cookie. I am a good decorator, no?

Hm. Needs more frosting.