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Spring Butterfly and Daisy Sugar Cookies

Spring Butterfly and Daisy Sugar Cookies

Spring Butterfly and Daisy Sugar Cookies

Last spring I made these sweet Spring Butterfly and Daisy Sugar Cookies for my daughter for her birthday. She and her husband were excited about these and wanted to help decorate so that made me very happy! We had a great day decorating together and visiting.

I was thinking that these would make some pretty beautiful Easter cookies and a fun family project for the holiday as well. They could be bright like these or a more pastel theme if you like but I really like the combination of the two patterns together.

Cookies like these are not made in one day, so I made the dough the night before baking the cookies and let the flour bloom and everything get cozy overnight in the fridge. (day 1)

I've researched many sugar cookie recipes and I've come to a compromise. The recipes that make the cleanest sharp edged intricately designed cookies do not make the tastiest cookies. The rich, chewy sugar cookie recipes taste great but do not make the prettiest cut outs because they are too puffy and the edges become too rounded. So the recipe I have used here is somewhere in the middle.

The next day, (day 2), I quartered the dough and then one at a time, I rolled the dough out and cut and baked the cookies. That process takes a couple of hours and is illustrated below. Click on the images for extra details.