I LOVE iced sugar cookies. As I get older, I find I am less patient than before, so I agree with the simplify idea. For the last few years, I made all my Christmas cookies with my favorite holly leaf cutter. Then I iced them green and threw on a red hot or 2 (like the icing-red hot flavor). I use a powdered sugar-vanilla milk mixture for icing. I'm curious as to what the corn syrup does in your recipe. The holly leaves look really pretty together on a plate. I like my cookies cooked a little more golden than some, and the icing mellows them and keeps them from being too crisp.

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