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Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies

Published: Jan 1, 2025 · Modified: Jan 9, 2025 by Gabrielle · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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While I could eat chocolate chip cookies every day and never tire of them, I always look forward to making these Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies. The creativity in choosing fun cookie-cutter shapes makes them extra special.

Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles Christmas Tree Shape

This year I opted to make several shapes: Christmas Trees, Christmas Lights, Snowflakes, and Gingerbread Men. I have other cookie-cutters to use but ultimately select between 4-5 shapes when I make them so I don't end up needing too many icing color variations.

Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles Christmas Tree Shape

When we were young we always looked forward to making these cookies for the pure fact that you could add your own designs and get creative with the icing. These cookies really allow you to get into the Holiday spirit and add such a fun touch to a platter of cookies for sharing. They take some time so be sure to allow yourself a day to bake the cookies, let them cool completely, decorate, and a couple hours for the icing to dry.

Although these cookies are considered Sugar Cookie dough, they have a decent amount of butter which adds to the flavor profile. Rather than being super sweet and only tasting sugar you really get a delicious cookie whether you ice these or not. The icing I used is a royal icing recipe, which is very sweet as is, so you could opt to leave out a little bit of sugar in the recipe if you prefer a less sweet cookie.

Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles Christmas Tree Shape

I also seem to pick cookie-cutter shapes where i can outline certain areas with icing while leaving some of the cookie bare. It's a matter of choice and preference, but I like getting a bite of buttery sugar cookie every so often without the sugary royal icing on top. But if icing is your thing, feel free to flood your entire cookie design with icing.

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Ingredients

Classic sugar cookie ingredients like butter and sugar create a soft, buttery base, while royal icing adds the perfect touch for decorating.

Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles Christmas Tree Shape
  • Butter
  • Sugar
  • Flour
  • Baking Powder

See recipe card for quantities.

Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles Christmas Tree Shape

Storage

Be sure to allow plenty time for your icing to dry or you risk the icing cracking or breaking off of the cookies when you go to store them. You can keep iced sugar cookies fresh for up to 2 weeks at room temperature if they’re stored in an airtight container. Use parchment paper between the layers to keep them from sticking.

Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles Christmas Tree Shape
Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles Christmas Tree Shape

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Pairing

These cookies were meant to be iced with this royal icing recipe for flawless results!

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Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles Christmas Tree Shape

Easy Holiday Sugar Cookies

Make the best holiday sugar cookies with this easy recipe. Perfect for cutouts and decorating with festive designs!
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Prep Time 45 minutes mins
Cook Time 10 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Servings 32 Cookies

Ingredients
  

Sugar Cookies

  • 2 cups unsalted butter at room temp.
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 teaspoon vanilla
  • 5 cups AP flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions
 

Sugar Cookies

  • Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder together. Put to the side.
  • Using a paddle attachment cream together butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer. Mix for about a minute or until fully combined. Scrape sides as needed to ensure all ingredients come together.
  • Add eggs one at a time and mix. Scrapes sides of the bowl as needed. Add vanilla and mix.
  • Slowly add the sifted dry ingredients together with the wet ingredients. Keep on low speed so you don't lose too much of your flour mixture. I add dry ingredients by the ½ cup until fully mixed together.
  • Take small equal sizes of your dough to roll in sections to keep it manageable.
  • Roll the dough between two pieces of parchment paper, allow each sheet of dough to cool in the fridge for 30-45 minutes before cutting out shapes.
  • While the dough is chilling, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  • When the dough is chilled, remove and cut using your selected cookie-cutter(s).
  • Bake on a parchment-lined baking sheet with space between your cookies. Do not overcrowd.
  • Watch your cookies to determine the best amount of time for your size and thickness of cookie selected, bake for 8-12 minutes.
  • Remove your cookies once baked to your preference, ideally when the edges are starting to become golden brown.
  • Allow cookies to cool fully before icing and decorating them.

Notes

-The amount of cookies you get from this recipe will vary greatly on the thickness of each cookie and the size of the cookie cutter used.
-Approximately 24-32 using small/medium cookie cutter.
-Pair these cookies with our royal icing recipe for flawless results!
-Allow your iced cookies to dry for a couple hours before putting away to reduce the risk of cracking or damaging your icing.
Keyword Baking, Christmas, Cookie Exchange, Cookie Swap, Cookie-Cutter, Cookies, Cut-Out Cookies, easy, Holiday, Holidays, Icing, Party, Royal Icing, sweet
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