Delicious on cakes, cookies or even by the spoonful! View This Recipe How to Decorate Christmas Sugar Cookies This is the BEST Cream Cheese Frosting recipe! Creamy, sweet, slightly tangy, and so easy to make. This recipe is so easy to make, and is enough to decorate dozens of your favorite Christmas cookies (see more on how to do this below). For those shiny, beautifully decorated cookies, we recommend decorating Christmas cookies with royal icing. There are two schools of thought when it comes to the perfect sugar cookie: thick, creamy frosting atop a soft cookie, or shiny silky royal icing smoothly covering the cookie’s surface. I will always make cut-out cookies this way from now on! Full credit for this genius idea goes to Allie, and I also highly recommend checking out her site for more genius baking hacks (and INCREDIBLY delicious-looking desserts and treats). She is the first person I have ever heard of who has done this and it worked beautifully! I swapped out a ½ cup of flour in my original sugar cookie recipe (our original recipe calls for 3 ½ cups of flour) for some cornstarch and it worked like a dream. Full credit goes to Allie over at Baking a Moment. She suggests adding in some cornstarch to get the edges just right. I WISH I could take credit for this one because it is such an awesome baking hack. How to Get Neat Edges on Christmas Sugar Cookies I like mine on the thicker side, so I like to use the ⅜ ring when rolling out my cookie dough. That way you can make them any thickness you want. I like the ones where you can adjust the thickness by removing and replacing the different-sized rings. Use a rolling pin with guides to help roll out your dough to a perfectly even thickness (this rolling pin is my favorite). Follow our guide and tips below to make these cookies perfectly every time! How to Roll Our Your Cookie Dough Evenly In my opinion, they are the most traditional Christmas cookies and most fun to decorate. ![]() Rolled cookies are the easiest to decorate because they stay nice and flat, even after baking. Shaped sugar cookies (like the recipe below) and gingerbread cookies are an example of rolled Christmas cookies. ![]() Rolled cookies are cookies that are made by rolling out a stiff dough and then using cookie cutters to cut various shapes. Christmas Sprinkles – get creative and have fun with any kind of sprinkles you can find!.Toothpicks – These are to help you fill in the tiny little gaps and smooth over the icing.Squeeze bottles – these can be found on Amazon, at Walmart or any craft store for about $1 a piece. ![]()
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