
Once you have mixed the dough, it will be soft and creamy, so it is essential to refrigerate the dough for AT LEAST two hours if you want to easily cut out your shapes and have clean lines. So go ahead and take out the butter and set it out on your counter RIGHT NOW (because you really want to make these!) Then after these cookies are baked and cooled, we top them with an EASY and gorgeous home-made icing with bold hues of blue, yellow, and green. For the dough, you need to work with softened butter, not melted or cold butter. These deliciously scrumptious cookies start and end with frosting! I start by whipping a creamy mixture of brown sugar, white sugar, and butter, which is essentially a creamy brown sugar frosting.

& amp amp amp lt br /& amp amp amp gt When refrigerated properly, the cookie dough rolls out very easily, and allows you to get a nice clean cut with the cookie shapes. These offer great flavor variation and a softer texture. You could omit the coconut flour and just use regular, or substitute some almond flour instead of the coconut. I also incorporated some coconut flour (1 cup out of the 5) and vanilla extract for some hints of flavor. I added some light brown sugar to make it a softer, gooey-er cookie. I tried several sugar cookie recipes, and this modified version from was fantastic. What better option than a scrumptious sugar cookie, that the kids can help roll out and cut into their favorite shapes?! Of course, making your own sugar icing, letting little ones stir up the colors, and decorate the cookies is the the best part. The traditional petit four Eid cookies and “ maamool” that we usually make are a more labor intensive, persnickety cookie so I had to come up with a more kid friendly, hands-on alternative. Sugar cookies shaped as crescents, masjids, lanterns and stars. Ramadan and Eid cookies are a must on our list! To make this time of year memorable and special for my family, I indulge in Ramadan and Eid themed crafts, activities, service projects, cooking, and baking. These are beautiful and joyous occasions, and Ramadan is the holiest month of the year for Muslims. We are all about making Eid and Ramadan as fun as can be.

The cookies are perfectly soft and chewy, yet the dough is nicely firm when rolling it out to cut into shapes. They are the perfect dough to work with when cutting out shapes. These addictive sugar cookies are delectably soft and have notes of coconut and vanilla.
