Christmas Sugar Cookies are just fun and festive twist on classic sugar cookie recipe. Sugar cookies are Christmas cookie staple!!! It’s quick and easy Christmas dessert with a few simple ingredients and comes out quickly. This sugar cookie dough doesn’t require chilling and cookies are formed by hand.
Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe
Sugar cookies are Christmas tradition! However, can you imagine Christmas without cookies?! And cookies are very popular during holiday season. But, the most popular cookies of all times are sugar cookies.
Christmas Sugar cookies are quick and easy dessert with simple ingredients and recipe is very versatile, too.
However, you can make rolled sugar cookies and cut in different shapes, like my Basic Sugar Cookies. But, it’s much easier when you form cookies by hand, like with this Christmas Sugar Cookies recipe.
Classic sugar cookies can look super festive and fun if you roll cookie dough in colored sugar. Sparkling red and green Christmas sugar cookies are perfect, easy Christmas dessert recipe.
What are the ingredients for Christmas Sugar Cookies?
2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter- softened at room temperature
1 cup sugar
one egg- room temperature
a teaspoon of vanilla
½ teaspoon almond extract
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
and ¼ teaspoon salt
Colored sugars-for rolling
How to Make Christmas Sugar Cookies?
Preheat the oven to 350 F and line baking sheets with parchment paper. First, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and set aside. Next, in a medium bowl cream together, butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Then add egg, vanilla and almond extracts and beat until well combined. Finally, add dry ingredients and mix on low speed, until the mixture is smooth and no dry flour remains.
First, scoop the dough and roll into 1-inch balls and roll the balls in colored sugar to cover all sides. Then place on prepared sheet pans leaving 2 inches space apart. Bake for 9 – 11 minutes, or until the cookies are just golden brown at the edges and puffed. Cool for three minutes on the pan then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe
Prep Time: 20- Cook Time: 10
- Total Time: 30
Yield: 30 1x
Category: dessert
Method: bake
Cuisine: American
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Red and green Christmas Sugar Cookies are just fun and festive twist on classic sugar cookie recipe. Sparkling red and green Christmas sugar cookies are perfect, easy Christmas dessert recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter- softened at room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg- room temperature
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- Colored sugars-for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and set aside.
- In a medium bowl cream together, butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add egg, vanilla and almond extracts and beat until well combined.
- Next, add dry ingredients and mix on low speed, until the mixture is smooth and no dry flour remains.
- Scoop a round teaspoon of the dough and roll into balls.
- Roll the balls in colored sugar to cover all sides, then place on prepared sheet pans leaving 2 inches space apart.
- Bake for 9 – 11 minutes, or until the cookies are just golden brown at the edges and puffed. Cool for three minutes on the pan then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
5 comments
Hi, these look amazing! Do they come out soft or crunchy? I usually prefer a softer cookie, which is why I’m asking. Thanks!,
Are these soft or crunchy?
Thanks!
Are these cookies soft after you bake them, or crunchy?
Thanks!
Hi Angie, these are crunchy on the outside and soft inside.
Hello, I made these in the past and they turned out very well, using the recipe as is. I’ll be making them this Christmas too for cookie platters. Thank you for the recipe!
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