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I love Betty Crocker’s classic recipe for my Christmas sugar cookies and cookie cutters. If I don’t have time to make the dough, I use a bag of their sugar cookie mix. Chilling the dough is the trick to using cookie cutters and keeping the shape of the cookies. I also have found that keeping the dough a bit thicker when you roll them out will prevent tearing when you transfer to cookies to the baking sheet. Be sure to not overbake these as you don’t want crispy cookies that will break and crumble when you try to ice them. The flavors of these cookies pair well with plain buttercream, royal icing, or other icings. If you want, you can also add or substitute in other extracts in place of vanilla. These Christmas sugar cookies always turn out deliciously!