If you need a foolproof and easy sugar cookie recipe, you’ve come to the right place! This recipe starts with Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix and ends with beautifully decorated Christmas cookies. Grab your baking helpers because little hands can totally get in on the fun when baking up a batch of these sweet treats. There’s no limit on what fun-shaped cookies you can make—candy canes, snowmen, ornaments, trees, stockings, snowflakes and so much more. Plus, your little kitchen-helpers will have a blast decorating these extra-easy Christmas Sugar Cookies!
Easy Christmas Sugar Cookies
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 1 hr 30 min
- Servings 24
- Ingredients 5
Ingredients
- 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
- Flour, butter and egg called for on cookie mix pouch for cutout cookies
- 1 tub (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Creamy White Frosting or 1 tub (12 oz) Betty Crocker™ Whipped Fluffy White Frosting
- Betty Crocker™ decorating icing (assorted colors), if desired
- Betty Crocker™ decorating sprinkles and sugars (assorted colors), if desired
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, flour, butter and egg until soft dough forms.
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Step2On floured surface, roll dough to about 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with about 2 1/2- to 3-inch cookie cutters. On ungreased cookie sheets, place cutouts 1 inch apart.
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Step3Bake 6 to 9 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
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Step4Spread frosting on cooled cookies. Decorate as desired with icing, sprinkles and sugars. Store cookies in tightly covered container.
Nutrition
200
Calories
8g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
30g
Total Carbohydrate
21g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Frosted Cookie (Undecorated)
- Calories
- 200
- Calories from Fat
- 70
- Total Fat
- 8g
- 12%
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- 21%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 20mg
- 6%
- Sodium
- 130mg
- 5%
- Potassium
- 25mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 30g
- 10%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 21g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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