Most of us bake for the holiday season, but it can be a lot of work. My solution is to make one dough to use as the basis for different kinds of cookies. The easiest is a sugar cookie dough, which can be combined with other ingredients. We've come up with four different recipes that are rolled, filled and cut out to make an attractive package for your cookie exchange. See recipes below.
For the basic sugar cookie, using a combination of light brown and white sugar produces cookies with a lovely golden colour and an appetizing hint of caramel.