Christmas is coming, and along with the holiday comes baking for family and friends. Need some Christmas cookie ideas? Kids love Christmas cookies, as does the whole family, and cookies make great DIY Christmas gifts. Who doesn’t love receiving a plateful of cookies around the Christmas holiday? Here are five amazing Christmas cookie ideas that are fun to make.
Santa Gingerbread Man Cookie
Gingerbread cookies are tasty and fun to eat year round, but their special spice and flavor make them especially amazing Christmas cookies, especially when you turn them into Santa Claus cookies. Gingerbread cookies can be made from a store-bought mix, or you can try your hand at making them from scratch. Homemade gingerbread cookies include flavorful ingredients such as butter, molasses, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. Here’s an excellent recipe from Taste of Home. After you’ve baked up your Gingerbread men, turn them into Santas by decorating them with frosting colored with red and green food coloring. (These frostings can usually even be picked up pre-colored prior to the Christmas holiday.) Add a red hat and facial features, green buttons and socks. Be creative when decorating your Gingerbread Santas. Cute Christmas cookie cutters are readily available at stores such as Target.
Christmas Tree Cookies
Christmas tree cookies are another great cookie idea for Christmas. These can be made from any sugar cookie recipe; however, a brownie mix is also a way to go. Christmas-tree shaped brownies with green frosting are delectable—especially with baking sprinkles and other small candies put on the tree for Christmas ornaments. Target and Amazon both are a place to find Christmas tree cookie cutters for making these cute and tasty cookies.
Christmas Snowflake Cookies
Snowflake cookies are a beautiful and unique Christmas cookie idea. Pick up your snowflake cookie cutters from Amazon, and then pick up your cookie dough. Purchase premade sugar cookie dough or even an oatmeal cookie mix, as the coconut you will add to these cookies complement the oatmeal flavor perfectly. Here’s a really easy oatmeal cookie recipe with only five ingredients if you want to make your own homemade oatmeal cookies. Throw in some raisins if you want. Oatmeal raisin cookies are delicious topped with cream cheese frosting. Make your own icing or buy it pre-made. The finishing touch is a generous topping of shredded coconut, completing the look of a soft, white, and fluffy snowflake. Your family and friends are sure to be impressed with how these snowflakes turn out.
Christmas Candy Cane Cookies
Candy cane cookies are another amazing Christmas cookie idea, as they are simple to make and simple to decorate. Candy cane cookie cutters are easy to find, as well. A nice touch is adding peppermint flavoring to the dough, so add a teaspoon or so of peppermint extract. Cut out your sugar cookie dough into candy cane shapes and bake. All you will have to do then is spread white frosting (cream cheese or vanilla) over the canes, with red frosting here and there as candy cane stripes. For an added touch, crush up some real candy canes and sprinkle onto the cookies to make this an extra special Christmas cookie.
Christmas Stocking Cookies
Christmas stocking cookies are an amazing Christmas cookie idea, as they can be personalized for each person who receives these cookies as a unique DIY Christmas gift. Cut out your favorite cookie dough to make these stockings. How about chocolate chip cookie dough this time? Buy it premade or make your own from scratch, which isn’t too hard. You’ll have fun tasting the cookie dough as you mix it, too! Just follow the instructions on the back of the bag of chocolate chips. Decorate the stockings with different colored frostings. Purchase them, or separate white frosting, mixing different colors of dye in each blob of frosting. Then decorate away to make each stocking unique. Or let the kids decorate to personalize their own stockings. Use a cake decorating kit to squeeze out wording—individual names—on each stocking, for an added personal touch. These cookies will definitely be a hit. Make them for a family, putting different names, even the pets’ names, on each stocking. These are fun DIY Christmas gifts, for sure.
Are you ready to enjoy some holiday baking? Then pick out your Christmas cookie cutters with Amazon discount codes and Target coupon codes to get started, as you decide on your favorite Christmas cookie ideas. Have fun baking and decorating your own unique Christmas cookies this holiday season!
