Best Ever Santa Claus Sugar Cookies

Out of all the sweet treats we find ourselves consuming during the holiday season I’d have to say hands down my weakness, my go to, my absolute favorite is sugar cookies.  So when the annual Wilton cookie exchange rolled around I knew exactly what cookies I’d be making, wrapping, and shipping out to The Mommy Files.  

I used Wilton’s classic sugar cookie recipe and this year Wilton came out with possibly the best (and cutest) two-part Santa cookie cutter ever (I mean the mustache)?!  Now I don’t consider myself a baking savant by any means so I was a tad on the nervous side when it came to icing the actual Santa.  I used Wilton’s royal icing recipe, disposable icing bags, and small icing tips and started lining and flooding away with abandon.  This being my first time actually using royal icing I was actually surprised by how easy it was.  Next time I’ll use a thicker icing to line the cookie and then flood (flood is decorating talk for fill) with the royal icing, but I’m just splitting hairs here because honestly for my first time I thought they turned out quite Santa like.

I let them set over night then packaged them up in cookie boxes all tied with a string and sent them on their merry way.  I just love a homemade gift don’t you?  Truly, MKR

*This story was in collaboration with Wilton, a brand I love and adore.  Opinions and images are 100% my own.