Chocolate Sugar Cookies | Recipe by Leigh Anne Wilkes (2024)

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What is a Nazareth sugar cookie? ›

The sugar cookie is believed to have originated in the mid-1700s in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. German Protestant settlers created a round, crumbly and buttery cookie that came to be known as the Nazareth cookie. Jumbles are the earliest form of sugar cookies.

DIP up to one-half of a cookie into melted chocolate and place on parchment-lined tray. Sprinkle with decorations or drizzle with additional melted chips, as desired. Repeat with each cookie. Refrigerate until chocolate and decorations are set, about 30 minutes.

McRaven describes the experience of Navy SEAL trainees who are subject — often randomly — to a punishment where they are directed to get wet and sandy on the beaches. By the time they are finished the trainees, covered in sand, look like “sugar cookies.”

Some claim cowboy cookies hail from Texas, a state many cowboys call home. Others say the treats were named for their ability to withstand long days in saddlebag.

Use a dark chocolate that contains between 60% to 80% cacao for a classic chocolate chip cookie. The bittersweet flavor of the dark chocolate balances out the sugars in the cookie dough, resulting in a well-balanced, traditional chocolate chip cookie.

Use Candy Melts for Easier Cookie Decorating

Use colored candy melts instead of royal or basic sugar icing for decorating cookies this holiday season. There's no measuring, stirring, or attempting to blend just the right icing consistency or shade of blue to ice those snowflake cookies.

White chocolate makes a terrific substitute for royal icing. It is less sweet and much more flavorful. Simply melt in the Proofer, temper, and spread over cookies to frost them.

She found a delicious recipe for gluten-free “Jesus cookies.” My daughters call those really puffy, soft sugar cookies with lots of icing and sprinkles you find in the grocery store “Jesus cookies” because they seemed to get them during Sunday School A LOT.

Where one is to roll in the sand or dirt while PT-ing, then continue PT-ing to look like a sugar cookie themselves. There's also a sand hill named after this term in 29 Palms, for this same reason.

The cookie is especially popular around, and usually associated with, Christmas in communities with a strong Moravian background such as Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which still maintain the two largest Moravian communities in the United States.