Make these adorable Christmas Decorated Sugar Cookies using simple ingredients and a Wilton cookie cutter. Use a simple roll out sugar cookie and royal icing.
Decorated Sugar Cookies
It’s amazing how much a year of practice makes a difference! I’ve mastered the art of making royal icing and thinning it out with egg whites in a separate bowl.
My new favorite Santa cookie cutter is available on Amazon! Anne Clark makes all these adorable cookie cutters in Rutland, Vermont.
Each Christmas I love to make something homemade for teachers, postal worker, close friends, and a few neighbors. This year, I went all out on these Santa sugar cookies. Wilton Cake Decorating makes the most adorable Metal Cookie Cutter Set 2/Pkg Santa Face cookie cutter. The mustache is a separate cookie cutter and you attach it to the top of Santa’s face. So cute!
First, I made rolled sugar cookies and let them cool completely. Below you can see the step images of the process of decorating each cookie. I piped royal icing around the outer edge of the cookie, for an outline. Let that dry and then flooded each section with thinned out royal icing.
Finally added details to each cookie. Once you get the royal icing down, you can let your creativity take over! Be sure and check out Sweetopia’s amazing video on how to decorate festive Christmas cookies! Be inspired this holiday season!
Aren’t these Vintage red trucks adorable? This is my favorite (and most popular design) that I make for the holidays! Get the cookie cutter HERE!
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Christmas Decorated Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Decorated Sugar Cookies
- 1 1/2 cups butter softened
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
Royal Icing
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons meringue powder
- 5 tablespoons water
Instructions
Decorated Sugar Cookies
- In a large mixing bowl, using a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs, vanilla, and almond extract. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix until combined thoroughly. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula occasionally.
- Place the cookie dough into a large Ziploc bag and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour or overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface to about 1/2-inch thick. Cut into shapes with cookie cutters. Place the cookies carefully onto parchment lined half sheet pans, leaving a little space for them to expand.
- Bake for 8 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Cool completely before decorating.
Royal Icing
- In a large mixing bowl of a stand mixer, beat all ingredients at medium speed until icing forms peaks and loses its sheen, 7-10 minutes.
- If peaks are not forming, increase the mixer speed and continue to beat. To prevent drying, cover the bowl with a damp cloth while working with icing.
Recipe Notes
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Very cute. I love the idea of giving these to teachers and postal workers in lieu of cash. Its much more personal.
Wow it is so cute. Though I don’t eat sweet enough but it is as usual great. I must say your recipes always allure me..
I love how these came out! I wish my cookies came out like this. I’m not the best at decorating, but that’s okay, because I mostly just pig out on the cookies.
The cookies are my favorite part of Christmas. These look so good as I love decorated sugar cookies.
Oh my goodness these are the cutest Christmas cookies! I can’t wait until it cools down and I can start making cookies with the kids!
Well these got me excited for the upcoming Holiday season! You are really skilled at decorating and icing them!
My daughter has been asking me for cookies just like this for a while now. I will have to give this recipe a try.
These Santa cookies just put me in the Holiday spirit. Would love to make these for my son’s teachers.
Wow! Mine never look that good! The Santa’s are so realistic looking.
These are so adorable. I’m horrible at sugar cookies and designing them.
This year my christmas recipe sorted by this. This looks super cute. Hope this product is available in India. Thanks for sharing
Oh how cute! My kids and I love to decorate the sugar cookies, but only the adults eat them since they just like the frosting. This would be nice to give away!
these cookies look fabulous and tasty. bookmarking this page for the holiday baking. thanks so much for sharing
These are so adorable! I’m going to save this recipe. I can already imagine making them with my friends. So fun!
Those are so cute! I love that the mustaches are created separately and then added on top. I think that really makes the cookies something special.
OMG these are so extra Santa’s cookies! OMG Christmas is fast approaching, we need to plan ahead.
These are the cutest Christmas cookies, great to make with the kids and eat too.
We already talking about Christmas lol! wEll these are some really cute Santa cookies!
How cute are these! These look so fun to make. Kids would love to make them. Saving this for later!!
These are absolutely adorable. Making Christmas cookies have always been a big tradition in my family. I’ve been slacking since I moved to Australia though.
These Santa cookies are absolutely adorable! Thanks so much for including the step by step visual and the video!! so helpful
They are such a great cookie and make a wonderful holiday gift! Thanks for visiting Silvia!