Cute and easy Christmas cookies! These Ornament Sugar Cookies are festive, fun and perfect for your cookie decorating parties!
Looking for a new way to decorate your sugar cookies this Christmas? Try decorating ornament sugar cookies using Rolos, M&M’s and some frosting! All you need is a simple circle cookie cutter to get started!
Frosted Ornament Sugar Cookies
This is such a perfect way to make adorable Christmas sugar cookies. Sometimes sugar cookie decorating can feel overwhelming if you don’t have all the fancy things like gel food coloring, meringue powder, or have time to learn how to properly flood and pipe on royal icing. Guess what, you can still make a show-stopper sugar cookies with just some frosting and store-bought candies!
Roll out your cookie dough between two pieces of parchment! I do this with all my pies 🙂 It’s a great trick because you don’t have to add a bunch of flour and it also makes the clean up so easy!
Just peel it away when the dough is about 1/4 of an inch and use your cookie cutters to cut out your shapes!
Transfer cookie dough shapes to a baking sheet, bake and let cool on wire racks! No need to wrap in plastic wrap and chill the dough! This sugar cookie recipe is no-fuss!
Three simple steps to cute Ornament Cookies: Frost, Rolo, M&M. Done!
I did this same decoration on top of cupcakes last year and they were just so adorable I had to do them on cookies this year!
Decorating Ornamant Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- CLASSIC SOFT SUGAR COOKIES:
- 3 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- 1/4 cup Crisco shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- optional flavor options: lemon zest, orange zest, rum extract, almond extract
Ornament Decorations:
- Powdered Sugar Frosting
- Rolos The bags have individually wrapped ones but the "sticks" are unwrapped in side
- Mini M&M's or an small candy!
Instructions
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with parchment paper.
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2. Whisk flour, baking soda and salt together in a bowl and set aside.
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3. In a stand mixer, beat butter, Crisco shortening and sugar together for 2 minutes. Add egg, rum extract, vanilla extract and sour cream and beat until combined.
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4. Add flour mixture and stir only until combined.
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6. Roll out onto a lightly floured surface. I rolled mine out to about 1/4 of an inch but you can make yours as thick or thin as you like! (The thicker the cookie the more time in the oven and the thinner the less time.) Cut out using desired shape and place on cookie sheets.
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7. Bake for 7-10 minutes depending on how soft you like your cookies!
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8. Let cool.
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9. To decorate like ornaments: Frost cookies with your desired color and flavor of frosting. Top with a Rolo (wrapped or unwrapped and Reese's Cups work too!). And use mini M&M's to make stripes and designs. Ta-dah! So fun and easy!
Did you see my cute Rudolph Cookies from yesterday?
I’ve heard nothing but excellent things about Pamela’s line of products and I’m sure these are no exception. The cookies are gorgeous! I wish I had your decorating skills! Pinned.
Aw thanks! These are so easy to make gorgeous because it really is mostly the candy doing all the work! Which I LOVE!
Is there some trick to frosting them so perfectly?
I pipe mine on first and then smooth it over with a small off-set spatula!
These are so adorable! Love the parchment paper trick too, I’m going to have to try that one!!
It’s an awesome trick for pie crusts because you roll the dough so much thinner and you really don’t want to rip a whole in crust!
What gorgeous cookies! Can’t wait to bake with my kids this week!
We adore Pamela’s products in our house, particularly the pancake mixes! These are the pretties holiday cookies.
These are so fun and beautiful!!
Will this dough freeze or refridgerate well? I’d like to make a bunch of dough ahead so that my nieces can do the fun part the next day…. the decorating!
Hello! How many cookies does it yield?
Can you use royal icing instead of buttercream?
Playing poppy playtime is something I encourage. This is an excellent game for de-stressing and relaxing.
I very like eating cookies. Thanks for the instruction.