These Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies are the perfect holiday dessert! Made with an easy sugar cookie recipe, they are great for holiday pitch ins or even as a special treat for Santa!
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We Love Christmas Cookies!
‘Tis the season for Christmas Cookies! Here at Bubba Pie, we LOVE to make all kinds of Christmas Treats and Holiday Desserts! But we especially love to make Christmas Cookies. There is nothing like lighting a fire in the fireplace, drinking some hot cocoa and making a whole bunch of yummy sugar Christmas Cookies. The kids love to decorate them with all sorts of frosting and sprinkles.
While that technique is certainly fun, the end result of our cookies is pretty “abstract”. Sometimes, you may want to make a Christmas Tree Sugar Cookie that actually LOOKS like a Christmas Tree, not some sort of green rocket with brown fire shooting out of the bottom of it!
How To Make Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
So, if you are planning to go to a holiday pitch in or cookie exchange, these Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies is the perfect recipe! It all starts with a super easy sugar cookie recipe, and then just a little bit of a steady hand to decorate them with a really classy looking decorated Christmas Tree!
Christmas Tree Sugar Cookie Ingredients:
For the cookies:
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups a/p flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
To decorate:
- 4 oz. white rolling fondant
- Green decorating frosting
- Multicolored nonpareils
- Brown edible marker
Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together sugar and egg until creamy.
- Add softened butter and vanilla extract. Mix until all ingredients are well-combined and set aside.
- In a smaller bowl, sift together dry ingredients: flour, baking powder and salt.
- Slowly add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until cookie dough takes form.
- Roll cookie dough into a large sphere and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate for at least one hour.
- Once hour is up, remove from fridge and let sit.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Dust a clean working area with a/p flour and roll out dough so that it’s about a quarter of an inch thick.
- Using a round cookie cutter, about 2 inches in diameter, cut out 12 circles out of the cookie dough. Place each one gently on lined baking sheet. Save any remaining cookie dough and refrigerate.
- Bake cookies for about 6 to 9 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- To decorate, roll out white fondant so that it’s about a quarter of an inch thick.
- Use the same cookie cutter to cut out 12 fondant circles.
- Press one fondant circle on one cookie. Repeat for the rest.
- Attach Wilton tip #21 to the green decorating frosting and pipe out a triangular shape in the middle of each cookie.
- Use brown edible marker to draw a trunk at the bottom of the green frosting.
- Sprinkle with nonpareils. Serve and enjoy!
Yields: One dozen cookies**
**The recipe for the sugar cookies themselves yield more than one dozen cookies, but we recommend making these one batch at a time and refrigerating any remaining cookie dough for other holiday recipes.
Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
For The Cookies
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 stick unsalted butter softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups a/p flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
For The Decoration
- 4 oz. white rolling fondant
- Green decorating frosting
- Multicolored nonpareils
- Brown edible marker
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together sugar and egg until creamy.
- Add softened butter and vanilla extract. Mix until all ingredients are well-combined and set aside.
- In a smaller bowl, sift together dry ingredients: flour, baking powder and salt.
- Slowly add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until cookie dough takes form.
- Roll cookie dough into a large sphere and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate for at least one hour.
- Once hour is up, remove from fridge and let sit.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Dust a clean working area with a/p flour and roll out dough so that it’s about a quarter of an inch thick.
- Using a round cookie cutter, about 2 inches in diameter, cut out 12 circles out of the cookie dough. Place each one gently on lined baking sheet. Save any remaining cookie dough and refrigerate.
- Bake cookies for about 6 to 9 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- To decorate, roll out white fondant so that it’s about a quarter of an inch thick.
- Use the same cookie cutter to cut out 12 fondant circles.
- Press one fondant circle on one cookie. Repeat for the rest.
- Attach Wilton tip #21 to the green decorating frosting and pipe out a triangular shape in the middle of each cookie.
- Use brown edible marker to draw a trunk at the bottom of the green frosting.
- Sprinkle with nonpareils. Serve and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
The recipe for the sugar cookies themselves yield more than one dozen cookies, but we recommend making these one batch at a time and refrigerating any remaining cookie dough for other holiday recipes.
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