How to Make the Best Christmas Sugar Cookies
Christmas will be here soon and I’ll show you how to make the best Christmas Sugar Cookies.
After making cookies many times I found a full proof on how to make the sugar cookies the easy way. No need to put the dough to the fridge for half an hour. I don’t really like working with hard dough straight from the fridge. It is crumbly and breaks easily. To make cookies it is hard to manage this kind of dough. Also, there is no need to use cold butter.
The dough that I made for these Christmas sugar cookies is like play-doh:) It is so easy to work with. The ingredients combine very well easily and instantly. The best cookie dough you’ll ever try. The Christmas sugar cookies came out great! Crunchy, sweet and buttery.
- First, you’ll make the dough by combining few ingredients that you probably have on hand.
- Then, you cut out the shapes (Christmas tree, snowman, stars, snowflakes etc.)
- Decorate with white or dark chocolate.
- Decorate with colorful sprinkles.
Imagine how much fun it is! My children had a blast. They love decorating Christmas sugar cookies. I keep this as our tradition. So every year, I bake cookies and they decorate.
Also, our cookies are not so sweet. I don’t use a lot of sugar in the dough. Simply because the frosting will be sweet enough. If you prefer sweeter dough, just add more confectioner’s sugar.
We decorated our cookies with white chocolate and dark chocolate. We also, used sprinkles and pomegranate arils. Every cookie looked different. The tutorial on how to make the best Christmas sugar cookies is very easy. And all the steps are below. I hope you’ll love them as much as we do!
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How to Make the Best Christmas Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/3 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 egg
Extras
- White Chocolate
- Dark Chocolate
- Sprinkles
- Flour for dusting
Instructions
Cookie Dough
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Prepare baking pan with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl combine flour and baking powder. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl mix butter and sugar with electric mixer until all will become smooth.
- Add egg and vanilla extract. Beat until all ingredients will combine.
- Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients.
- Mix with mixer, then knead the dough by hand.
- Divide the dough into 2 sections. Flour the surface and roll one dough until about 1/4 thick. It depends also how thick you prefer your cookies. Cut the cookies with cookie cutter. Make the same with section 2. Work on the dough until you cutout all cookies.
- Lay nicely on parchment paper. Bake for 6 - 10 minutes. Start checking after 6 minutes so they will not burn out.
- Cool off cookies completely before decorating.
Decoration
- Melt white and dark chocolate separately using the double boiler method (fill lower pan with water, bring water to simmer, take off from heat, put chocolate chips in top pan and stir).
- Decorate your cookies with chocolate and sprinkles.
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Such sweet looking cookies! And I love that the dough doesn’t have to be refrigerated beforehand. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much Alanna!
Play-dough like cookie dough – sigh me up!! I agree that waiting for your dough to cool in the fridge only to have it crack is a total bummer!!! I will have to try this recipe next time I make sugar cookies
Thanks Candice! I hope you’ll like them:)
These cookies look delicious! I really love your designs! 🙂 So pretty!
Thank you!
My husband is going to so happy I came across this recipe! They look delicious!
Thank you so much!
I just love those mittens! And the recipe looks great as well!
A classic Christmas treat! I clearly remember baking and decorating sugar cookies when I was a kid. Such a fun activity.
I agree Sarah:) Thank you!
Sugar cookies are awesome around Christmas time! I loved helping my mom and grandmother decorate them! These cookies look superb, Ilona! 🙂
It’s so fun to decorate cookies:) Thank you Amanda!
This sounds like a great dough for people with kids – no waiting around for the dough to soften! Those cookes are awfully cute, too!
Thanks so much Teresa!
The cookies look gorgeous and the pics are bright and beautiful 🙂
Thank you Revathi!
These sounds so yummy and I love how you decorated them. Pinned!
Thank you so much!
I don’t like working with old dough either. I developed my sugar cookie recipe so I don’t have to chill it either. I absolutely love the idea of dipping the cookies in chocolate and topping with sprinkles! Too cute!
Thank you Diana!
So ADORABLE!!
Thank you Jacquee!
This is so simple! I haven’t made Christmas cookies in years, I’ll have to give it a go 🙂
Thank you!
These are so gorgeous and cute! I really need to get over my fears of cut out cookies and make some! I’m just worried I’ll make them terribly ugly!
I was worried too, but they came out ok:) Thank you!
They are so cute and look yummy too!
Thank you Emily!
Love your recipe! These cookies are so cute! Pinned!
Thanks Mira!
Ah, what beautiful cookies, Ilona! So festive and look delicious! Sugar cookies are my fave! 🙂
Thank you Joscelyn!
I loved decorating sugar cookies as a kid, this is such a great way to make memories! I love that this cookie dough is ready right away, waiting for it to chill was always my least favorite part! And also I like tha tyou made them not too sweet, it seems like as I get older my sweet tooth has been fading. These are perfect!
My sweet tooth is fading too, that’s why my recipes have less sugar. Thank you Meghan!
They are just so cute. I’m going to be making some edible gifts this weekend so I might just make these. Thanks for sharing. x
Thank you so much!
I made these last Christmas and they were delicious! I’m making them again today! 🙂
I am so happy that you like them Emilie. I am planning to make these for Christmas too with my children.