Cutter Cutters

How to make christmas cookies and homemade cookie cutters?

Hi,
I want to know a good christmas cookie recipe. Also i want to know if i can make cookie cutter cuz my mom doesnt want to buy some so i want to make my own.
I would apreciate it if you could help me!

Cut a tuna or cat food can top and bottom out. Then carefully use pliers to arrange the metal into shapes you like. Stick w/ easy shapes: square, oval, triangle, and or course, leave one in a circle.

Sugar Cookies, Best in the World

3 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp nutmeg
20 TBLS unsalted butter softened but firm
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 375ºF. Whisk dry (first 4) ingredients together, set aside. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients just until incorporated. Chill dough at least two hours. Roll out half of the dough 1/4 inch thick and cut out. (or some into a ball and pressed into circle w/ bottom of a glass) Place 1” apart on greased baking sheet. Bake in middle rack of oven for 10 minutes. When cool, frost with royal icing tinted to desired color.

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