The basic Christmas cookie in the States? Sugar cookies. The dough is easy to make. You get to roll it out, use cookie cutters, bake them and then frost them. Fun wise it doesn't really get any better than that.

When I was growing up we'd make dozens of these cookies. They went on every cookie try and we gave them as gifts to everyone--teachers, neighbors, friends and family.

Now that I am older, they seem like a little more than I'd like to go to on my own. The thought of little kids rolling sugar cookies out is cute. While the thought of me cutting cookie, after cookie out is not so cute. Not mention frosting all of these cookies after they bake and cool.

Anyhow, I pushed these thoughts out of my mind and I threw together a batch of sugar cookie dough. The thing about sugar cookies is that it's really important for the dough to chill at least 2 hours before you try to roll the dough or to cut it out. So I figured that I'll make the dough one night, bake the cookies another and wrap the whole thing up with frosting them the next night. That way I can really stretch these damn cookies out as long humanly possible.

I probably wont want to eat a single cookie by the time I am finally done main