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Shortcut Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe

When you want Christmas cookies, but need to make them quickly and cutely, use this shortcut cookie hack and easy way to decorate them to still look festive.
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time15 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Christmas, Christmas dessert, cookies, easy cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 package Sugar Cookie Mix plus ingredients called for: mine one called for a stick of butter and one egg
  • 1 16 oz. Can vanilla frosting
  • Red & Green food coloring

Instructions

  • Add the package of cookie mix, butter, and water in a medium mixing bowl and mix until well combined.
    ingredients for easy cookies in a bowl
  • Form dough into small balls and place on baking sheet.
  • Cook according to package (about 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees F).
    Baked sugar cookies on lined baking pan
  • Let cool.
  • Remove about 2-3 tbsp of frosting into two different small bowls for the red frosting and the green frosting.
    Tinting two bowls of white frosting red and green
  • Add a few drops of of the food coloring to the small bowls of frosting and mix until desired shades or red and green,
    Red and green frosting in bowls
  • Add the colored frosting into two small zip-lock bags and cut a small piece of the corner out.
  • Frost the cooking with the white frosting.
    Sugar cookies iced with vanilla frosting
  • Then drizzle a little of the red in one direction and the green frosting in the opposite direction onto each cookie.
  • Enjoy.