This week I was looking for new and different holiday cookies recipes and came across a recipe for Quilt Sugar Cookies. Every year my local newspaper has a section on holiday cookies. Apparently, this is the 20th year they have been doing this. I look forward to seeing what new cookies they come up with. I noticed, they never repeat a recipe often looking to other nations for inspiration.
Quilt Sugar Cookies
OK, the ingredients are pretty standard for the sugar cookies, but you need 3 to 4 assorted gel food colorings to dye portions of the dough. They actually have two pages devoted to these cookies. Yes, when baked they surprising look like quilt squares. Apparently, the author of the recipe grew up around quilts and quilting. She took the classic slice and bake checkerboard cookie design one or two steps further.
However, there are 13 steps listed for making these cookies. They also include a color-coded chart showing the placement of the squares and rectangles for making each cookie. You, also, can start building your quilt blocks using any dough color. However, the author starts with the plain cookie dough.
Apparently, it takes 2 1/2 hours to make the cookies, plus cooling time.
Quilting
Now for a few words on quilting. I remember seeing a small quilt and thought I might try to make one myself. I’m a great seamstress. Or at least, at one time I was pretty good.
Anyway, quilting is a lot harder than it looks. The fabric squares need to be cut with precision and also sewn in the same way. Otherwise, the squares don’t properly line up. Or you can get some squares larger or smaller than others. That’s a real problem. Of course, there is always that handy seam ripper to take them apart and resew them. Not for this Farmhouse Magic Blog gal, quilting is too complicated, too labor intensive, and too much precision.
OK, you’re right the photograph used today is of regular sugar cookies not the quilting square cookies.
So, let’s get back to the quilt cookies. Apparently, if you follow the steps, they are quite easy to make much like putting a puzzle together.
Ending Notes on Quilt Sugar Cookies
The photographs of the cookies look very much like quilting squares. Apparently, the author has seen parents work with their children to make the cookies. She also notes that cookies being seen at cookie exchanges.
Sorry to be such a cookie monster, but if I spend a couple of hours making these integrated cookies, Guess what? I’m going to eat them all myself! (Just kidding.)
Happy Holiday Cookie Baking!
Resource Site: Holiday Cookies 2024, Washington Post Special Edition, Wed., December 11, 2024 – NOTE: This edition in the store I shopped in was priced at $5 instead of the usual $3.
Note: The Sugar Cookies photo on this blog is not of the quilt sugar cookies. I don’t have permission to run their photographs in my blog.