Best Easy Santa Cookies Recipes

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EASY SANTA COOKIES



Easy Santa Cookies image

These cookies will be the highlight of your holiday cookie tray or the perfect gift for the Santa collector on your list!

Provided by By Betty Crocker Kitchens

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h50m

Yield 18

Number Of Ingredients 15

1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy vanilla ready-to-spread frosting
3 tablespoons red sugar
18 miniature marshmallows
36 currants or semisweet chocolate chips
18 red cinnamon candies
3/4 cup shredded coconut

Steps:

  • Heat oven to 400°F. Beat butter, granulated sugar and lemon peel in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in egg and milk. Stir in flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  • Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 3 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Press bottom of drinking glass on each until about 1/4 inch and 3 inches in diameter. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
  • Spread frosting on cookie (frost and decorate each cookie before starting another). Sprinkle red sugar over top third of cookie for hat. Press on miniature marshmallow for tassel. Press 2 currants for eyes and 1 cinnamon candy for nose into center third of cookie. Sprinkle coconut over bottom third for beard.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 270, Carbohydrate 3 g, Cholesterol 25 mg, Fat 2, Fiber 1 g, Protein 2 g, SaturatedFat 7 g, ServingSize 1 Cookie, Sodium 180 mg

EASY SANTA COOKIES



Easy Santa Cookies image

Provided by Food Network

Time 3h

Yield 32 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury®refrigerated sugar cookies
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
2 to 3 tablespoons milk
2 to 3 drops red food color
68 semisweet chocolate chips (about 1/4 cup)
34 cinnamon candies
2/3 cup coconut
34 miniature marshmallows

Steps:

  • Freeze cookie dough at least 1 hour.
  • Heat oven to 350degreesF. Cut chilled dough into 1/4-inch slices. (Return dough to freezer if it becomes too soft to cut.) On ungreased cookie sheet, place slices 3 inches apart.
  • Bake 8 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 5 minutes.
  • In small bowl, beat powdered sugar, butter and enough milk until smooth and desired spreading consistency. In small bowl, place half of frosting. Add red food color; stir until blended.
  • Frost cooled cookies with red and white frosting. Use small amount of frosting to attach chocolate chips for eyes and cinnamon candy for nose. Gently press coconut into white frosting for beard. Press marshmallow into red frosting for tassel on cap. Let stand until frosting is set. Store between sheets of waxed paper in tightly covered container.

EASY SANTA CLAUS COOKIES



Easy Santa Claus Cookies image

I have made these for about ten years now and decided to make a batch for my party next Sunday when my neighbor came in and said she saw these in a Taste Of Home book not too long ago. She went back home and came in with the book. LOL here I thought they were my idea. Oh wel! No matter who made them first; these are great and...

Provided by Norma DeRemer

Categories     Cookies

Number Of Ingredients 6

2 pkg white chocolate coating, melted
1 pkg nutter butter sandwich cookies
32 vanilla or white chips (or decorations of your choice)
64 miniature semisweet chocolate chips
32 red-hot candies
red colored sugar

Steps:

  • 1. Either in the microwave or on the stove top. Melt the white chocolate coating and stir until smooth. ( I have and use a small melting pot )
  • 2. Place waxed paper on your counter and dip one end of each cookie into the melted chocolate and place on waxed paper and sprinkle red sugar on top part of chocolate.
  • 3. Press one vanilla chip off center on hat for pom-pom or other decorations of your choice and let stand until firm.
  • 4. Dip other end of each cookie into melted chocolate for beard, leaving center of cookie uncovered.
  • 5. Place back on waxed paper to set.
  • 6. Using a toothpick; dab a bit of melted white chocolate on back of chip and attach for eyes.
  • 7. Using a toothpick; dab a bit of melted chocolate on the back side of red-hot candy for nose and place under the two eyes.
  • 8. After finishing all the cookies. Let them set and place them in a container with a lid until time to serve.

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