Description
These festive Santa Sugar Cookies are a fun and easy holiday treat, perfect for decorating with kids or adding a cheerful touch to your holiday dessert table. Using store-bought sugar cookies and simple decorations like candy eyes, cinnamon candies, red sugar sprinkles, shredded coconut, and miniature marshmallows, you can create charming Santa faces in less than 15 minutes.
Ingredients
Scale
Cookies & Frosting
- 12 store-bought sugar cookies
- 1 can (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Vanilla Frosting
Decorations
- 24 candy eyes
- 12 cinnamon imperial candies
- Red sugar sprinkles
- Approximately 1/4 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- 12 miniature marshmallows
- Black edible marker
Instructions
- Attach eyes and nose: Using a small knife or a toothpick dipped in frosting, attach 2 candy eyes and 1 cinnamon imperial candy to the top of each sugar cookie to create Santa’s eyes and nose.
- Frost Santa’s hat top: Spread frosting on the top one-third portion of the cookie to form the base of Santa’s hat.
- Add red sprinkles: Carefully sprinkle red sugar sprinkles over the frosted top, leaving a line of white frosting uncovered to simulate the trim of the hat.
- Frost Santa’s beard bottom: Spread frosting on the bottom one-third portion of the cookie to create Santa’s beard area.
- Add coconut beard: Press sweetened shredded coconut onto the frosting on the bottom to give texture to Santa’s fluffy beard.
- Add marshmallow pompom: Attach one miniature marshmallow to the top of each cookie as the pompom on Santa’s hat.
- Draw smile: Use the black edible marker to draw a smile on each cookie, completing Santa’s face.
Notes
- For best results, make sure the cookies are completely cooled before decorating to prevent frosting from melting.
- You can substitute the cinnamon candies with small red candy pieces or red M&Ms if preferred.
- If you do not have a black edible marker, you can skip the smile or use melted chocolate with a toothpick for drawing.
- These cookies are best served the same day but can be stored in an airtight container for up to 2 days.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 180
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 90mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 3.5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 28g
- Fiber: 0.5g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 5mg
