Alumni Holiday Festive Fun

Category: Entrepreneurship

A gingerbread cookie cutting standing on a sugar covered counter with blurry lights in the background, and text that reads Happy Holidays.

NSCC alumni – your transformational strides and contributions in community and industry year-round are gifts that keep on giving. We hope you find time to celebrate the season in whatever way means most to you.

To bring a little festive fun this season, we called on baking connoisseur Cait Holmes (Boulangerie and Baking Arts '14), Owner of Honey & Butter, and she shared a delicious and easy to make sugar cookie recipe for you to try at home. Through her one-woman pop-up bake shop in Dartmouth, Cait bakes the world a butter place with delicious sweets like these cookies.

Sugar Cookies Recipe from Honey & Butter

Makes 24 cookies

Ingredients

½ cup + 1 tbsp butter, room temp
¼ tsp salt
½ cup sugar
2 eggs, room temp
1 ¾ cups flour

Directions

Using a stand mixer with paddle, combine butter, sugar and salt. Mix until smooth. Add eggs one at a time, scrape down sides. Add the flour all at once and mix on low until incorporated. On a lightly floured surface roll out dough to 1/8”. Cut out desired shapes using cookie cutters. Place on a baking sheet and cool in fridge. While cooling preheat oven to 325°. Bake for 7-10 minutes or until golden.

Cait Holmes standing behind a kitchen counter filled with fresh baked goods that she made for her business, Honey & Butter.

NSCC alum Cait Holmes

Shortly after graduating from NSCC's Boulangerie and Baking Arts program in 2014, Cait opened her pop-up business Honey & Butter in Dartmouth, NS.

Graphic with a recipe card for sugar cookies and baker's table background.

Sugar Cookies Recipe

A delicious sugar cookies recipe from Honey & Butter.

Cait Holmes with an arm full of rhubarb, standing next to a bookshelf.

Culinary background

Before opening her bake shop, Cait worked at two small businesses - as a barista and working in a kitchen.