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Oh so unbelievably delicious and easy! Definitely in our brunch rotation from here on out!

Made these over the weekend and indeed, best sugar cookies ever. I halved the large recipe, instead of making the small batch, because I forgot the small batch recipe was there. And even though it's wasn't exactly the same measurements they turned out perfectly. The best part of this dough is that once you've re-rolled a few times you can just let it rest in the freezer to firm back up and keep rolling. So I didn't have a lot of wasted dough, which annoyed me about other recipes that you couldn't revived past a few rolls. I had enough to make a good number of very large snowflake cookies, a ton of mitten shaped ones, and two dozen linzer cookies. Decorated all with sanding sugar, were so beautiful. They were a big hit at our open house. Am definitely making these guys again!

Growing up our rule was the weekend after the 8th, which is my mom's birthday, and I still keep to that. I did put a mini potted fir in our bedroom last night, and we did start listening to Christmas songs. But except for a few decorations, nothing is really happening until the weekend after the 8th, and will stay up until the first weekend in January. I like everything to be around long enough to really enjoy it, but I like some real downtime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, where I'm just planning and anticipating :)

I made these this morning (used pistachios for the nuts, and upped the date amount) and just had one. Even though my husband is correct when he said "these taste healthy" after taking a bite, I really really like them. It's hard to find healthy snacks that don't taste like twigs and cardboard sprinkled with sugary additions to make them tolerable. Will be making them frequently!