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I made sugar cookies (not this recipe, from a box), for my friends for christmas, and I used a method that my mom taught me when I was a little girl.
You chunks of the dough into balls, and flatten them a bit onto wax paper (so you can pick them up after). Your thumb should be just sticky enough from the dough to be able to pick up sprinkles, and press them into the centre of the cookie. It makes them look quite festive, and it's really easy for littler children.
So they don't burn, use a dough ball about the size of a small chestnut.
Try it with the girls!
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What can I use to replace the margarine?
Even if it doesn't have any milk in it I won't eat anything with trans fats [includes anything that says in the contents/ingredients the words "hydrogenated or fractionated" ]in it. They have been been proven over past 20 years to be deadly for our arteries. So, they are increasingly going to be controlled by the FDA to either be strictly limited or even eliminated eventually from all food. Margarine is loaded with them!!
Thanks for alternate ideas.
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I posted the recipe as I found it and said that you'd have to make the subsitutions - like for the margarine and to use just egg whites. There are lots of different brands of soy and veggie butters so that's up to you. Hope you find something that works!
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Thank you Heather!
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Many years of C-IBS and pain too for past 2 years-
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I used Blue Bonnet light margarine (no milk) & used some crushed cardamom. The cookies taste "all right" but not really very good. The cardamom was a new spice for me (never cooked with it before). But I think the margarine also makes the cookies taste too "diet" if you know what I mean. I frosted them with the royal icing, but that didn't really help. I'm gonna go ahead & serve them along with other desserts at my Christmas party, but I'm honestly disappointed with them.
I just wanted to report this to you all because you might want to try baking with another brand of margarine & might want to skip the cardamom.
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Aww booo!
I didn't mention it, but I just omitted the cardamom altogether. And the butter I used was Land o'lakes Baking Butter with Canola Oil. I'm sure there's dairy in it, but I don't have a problem with it when I use it. So that may have something to do with why mine turned out so good.
Sorry you didn't have luck this time!  
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I didn't use cardomon either. I did use cinnamon and that tasted great. I also used smart balance light, which worked out rather well.
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