Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe & Decorating Ideas

No holiday is complete without Christmas Sugar Cookies.

These cookies are soft, buttery and perfectly sweet with a hint of vanilla.

They can be cut into various shapes and decorated with colorful icing or sprinkles, making them a fun and festive activity for the whole family.

This is an easy, no-roll-out version, and you can decorate them and make them special with many options that might surprise you. You won’t be sorry. 

Be sure to check out the rest of our easy cookies recipes, too!

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Christmas Sugar Cookies Decorating Ideas

While you could certainly decorate these Christmas sugar cookies with raw sugar or sprinkles, there are many ways to add some fun, flavor, and visual appeal to your holiday cookies.

Here are a few ideas you may want to try.

* Use a variety of holiday-related cookie cutters. From reindeer to mittens and snowmen to candy canes and even snowflakes, there are many cookie cutters shapes available today you are sure to find just what youíre looking for.

* Enhance the cookie’s taste by using flavored sugars to decorate.

* Mix a little powdered drink mix with granulated sugar and sprinkle on the cookies.

* Draw or paint on the cookies using this simple icing recipe from The Kitchn.

* Use a small stencil and colored sugar or food coloring to add a design or symbol quickly.

* Personalize or add fine details to cookies using food decorator pens.

* Fruit leather and miniature candies can be used to create clothing for snowmen. Large grain sugar makes snowflake cookies sparkle. Taffy can be stretched to just about any shape and size.

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Or you can decorate easy shortbread cookies instead!

If your household is gluten free, try these gluten-free sugar cookies. Or if you’re cutting back on sugar, make this cut out sugar cookie recipe.

Before you get started, you’ll want these baking tools!

Snowman Sugar cookies

Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe

Christmas Sugar Cookies Ingredients:

  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup softened butter
  • 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 tablespoons buttermilk
  • Raw sugar or colored sprinkles (optional decoration)
Snowflake Sugar cookies

Instructions:

Step 1: In a small bowl, add the flour, baking soda, and baking powder.

Blend the mixture to combine well. Set aside.

Step 2: In a large bowl, add the butter and sugar.

Use a hand mixer, set on medium speed, to cream the butter and sugar together until it is smooth.

Step 3: Add in the egg and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.

Step 4: Gradually blend in the flour mixture, adding a small amount at a time and mixing well between additions.

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Step 5: Add the buttermilk one tablespoonful at a time.

You just want to add enough buttermilk to moisten the dough and make it soft.

Step 6: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Step 7: Use a teaspoon to scoop up a rounded spoonful of dough.

Roll the dough into a ball and place it on an ungreased cookie sheet, flattening the cookie slightly.

Step 8: Using a pastry brush dipped in the remaining buttermilk, moisten the top of each cookie.

Then sprinkle with raw sugar or colored sprinkles.

Step 9: Bake the cookies for about 8 minutes or until the centers are firm and they begin to turn golden.

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Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool for 2 minutes before moving them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Recipe adapted from: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/chewy-sugar-cookies-recipe.html

Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe

Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe

Yield: 24
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Inactive Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 38 minutes

Christmas Sugar Cookies -- This is an easy, no-roll-out version, and you can decorate them and make them special with many options that might surprise you.

Ingredients

  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup softened butter
  • 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 tablespoons buttermilk
  • Raw sugar or colored sprinkles (optional decoration)

Instructions

  1. In a small bowl, add the flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Blend the mixture to combine well. Set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, add the butter and sugar. Use a hand mixer, set on medium speed, to cream the butter and sugar together until it is smooth.
  3. Add in the egg and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.
  4. Gradually blend in the flour mixture, adding a small amount at a time and mixing well between additions.
  5. Add the buttermilk one tablespoonful at a time. You just want to add enough buttermilk to moisten the dough and make it soft.
  6. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
  7. Use a teaspoon to scoop up a rounded spoonful of dough. Roll the dough into a ball and place it on an ungreased cookie sheet, flattening the cookie slightly.
  8. Using a pastry brush dipped in the remaining buttermilk, moisten the top of each cookie. Then sprinkle with raw sugar or colored sprinkles.
  9. Bake the cookies for about 8 minutes or until the centers are firm and they begin to turn golden. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool for 2 minutes before moving them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Notes

One serving is 2 cookies.

Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 174Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 28mgSodium: 130mgCarbohydrates: 24gFiber: 0gSugar: 13gProtein: 2g

Nutrient values are only estimates provided by online calculators. Various factors can change the nutritional information in any given recipe.

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3 Comments

  1. Those are so cute! This recipe will be perfect for Valentine’s Day too! Thank you so much for linking up to Best of the Blogosphere this week!!!

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