God damn Christmas cookies. Every year I think this is going to be a fun process, and every year I forget that every surface in my kitchen gets covered in flour and cooling racks and sticky bowls of icing and dirty dishes.

And every fucking year I forget that every fucking Christmas cookie recipe I have EVER tried has spread into a vaguely scalloped kindergartener's flower shape instead of whatever I hoped it would be based on the cookie cutter shape.

Does anyone have a Christmas cutout cookie recipe that will actually retain sharp-ish edges? I'm not asking for much - just a couple of stars and snowflakes and Christmas trees.

Bah humbug.