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Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ,celebrated generally on December 25 as a religious and cultural holiday by billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide. Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians, and is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season.

Sugar Cookie Recipe For Christmas

Around the middle of the 1700s hit German Protestants in Pennsylvania, in an area called Nazareth. They created a sugar cookie called Nazareth Sugar Cookie. Inspiration for Nazareth Sugar Cookie recipe probably came from an earlier, unleavened cookie called sprawl.

Today, sugar cookies are quite popular as they are quite easy to decorate. Here is a simple sugar cookie recipe I've used a few times.

Ingridients for Sugar Cookie Recipe:

• 9 ounces of unsalted butter
• 1.5 cups of sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon fine grained salt
• 1/2 tablespoon baking powder
• 3.6 (or 3.5) cups all-purpose flour