Butter Cookie Recipe To Decorate

Christmas Butter Cookies with Powdered Sugar Icing are a MUST for the holidays. Simple iced cookies are one of the best treats for Christmas, and this easy butter cookies recipe is my FAVORITE. Make your favorite shapes with cookie cutters, and decorate however you like using our powdered sugar icing recipe!

Christmas Butter Cookies are a staple for the holidays! You can make them into any shape you want with a cookie cutter, and the powdered sugar icing is soooo delicious. My mom’s iced cookies are the best!

With Christmas just a few days away, it’s time to go into full-on cookie mode. Baking is such a fun thing to do this time of year, and Christmas Cookies win out over everything else. My Christmas Sugar Cookies are always a favorite, and Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are a new addition to the lineup. But these Iced Christmas Butter Cookies will always be an absolute classic!

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This is the best butter cookies recipe out there (amazing flavor and texture), matched with the most amazing powdered sugar icing recipe. I really love butter cookies because they are perfect for decorating. You can make them super fun and festive for Christmas, or for any other holiday. Choose your favorite cookie cutters to make fun shapes, and use any food coloring you like for the powdered sugar frosting.

I made snowflake cookies, but you could make Christmas tree cookies, snowman cookies, or simple round cookies. Make them with the family and let everyone choose their own shapes and decorations. It’s a great Christmas activity with a tasty treat to enjoy at the end!

Make the perfect Christmas Butter Cookies recipe along with the most amazing Powdered Sugar Icing. These iced cookies are a MUST for the holidays!

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This powdered sugar icing recipe is my favorite kind of frosting to use for iced cookies. It’s the perfect complement to the butter cookies, it looks beautiful, and it tastes SO good. I chose to do a blue and white marbled look for my snowflake cookies, and that’s what I’m going to show you how to make. However, you can follow the basic icing recipe and make single-colored frosting to decorate your cookies.

This is a variation of my favorite royal icing recipe. The marbled effect takes a bit more work, but the powdered sugar icing itself isn’t complicated.

At this point, you can just stir in your preferred food coloring to make a single-color frosting. Or pour the glaze into separate bowls, and add different colors to each one if you want to have options while decorating the cookies.

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You can decorate your Christmas butter cookies however you like. You can order fun Christmas cookie cutters online, or find some at your local stores. Just cut the dough using any shapes before baking. Feel free to make as many different shapes as you want!

I really love the powdered sugar icing, but you can use other types of frosting if you prefer. Add some sprinkles for an extra flash of fun!

Iced butter cookies can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container. Let the glaze dry completely before storing them; this could take 12-24 hours. To store them without icing, just make sure the cookies have cooled, and then they are ready to go.

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These Christmas Butter Cookies do take a little extra time, but it’s worth it! The iced cookies are so much fun for Christmas, especially with the delicious powdered sugar icing. Everyone will love making them just as much as eating them. Happy Holidays!

Last step! Don’t forget to show me a pic of what you made! Upload an image or tag me @ on Instagram!

Storage:Store Christmas butter cookies with powdered sugar icing in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days, in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 1 month.

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Serving: 1 cookie Calories: 229 kcal (11%) Carbohydrates: 39 g (13%) Protein: 2 g (4%) Fat: 8 g (12%) Saturated Fat: 5 g (31%) Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g Monounsaturated Fat: 2 g Trans Fat: 1 g Cholesterol: 28 mg (9%) Sodium: 57 mg (2%) Potassium: 19 mg (1%) Fiber: 1 g (4%) Sugar: 29 g (32%) Vitamin A: 248 IU (5%) Vitamin C: 1 mg (1%) Calcium: 6 mg (1%) Iron: 1 mg (6%)

Becky is a wife and mother living in Saint Louis Missouri. She founded The Cookie Rookie in 2012 as a creative way to share recipes. Now, she is a trusted resource for easy cooking around the world, being featured in Taste of Home, The Kitchn, ABC’s Home and Family, and more. Here at The Cookie Rookie she is the editor in chief of all recipes and continues to enjoy sharing her passion for cooking for busy families. She has since founded two additional food blogs, Easy Chicken Recipes and Easy Dessert Recipes.These easy Christmas butter cookies are perfect for the holiday season! Ready in only 20 minutes and made with 6 ingredients! Dipped in chocolate and decorated with Christmas sprinkles!

These Christmas butter cookies are not only easy to make, they only take 20 minutes and call for just 6 ingredients for the cookie!

Danish Butter Cookies

These are no chill cookies so you can bake them in the oven right away. They bake up in 10 minutes and are ready for decorating with Christmas sprinkles and chocolate once cooled. Simple, easy, and delicious!

The flavor and texture of these Christmas cookies is amazing! This recipe is based on my classic butter cookie recipe which recommends European butter and cake flour for this cookie.

Don't worry if you don't have European butter or cake flour, you can substitute regular butter and all purpose flour in this recipe and it will still turn out delicious! I've done this many times and was happy with the results!

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To create these beautiful shapes, you'll need to use a piping bag with a pastry tip and coupler. The dough is sticky and needs to be piped to make their signature shapes. I linked the equipment I recommend in the recipe card at the end of this post.

Have fun and try out different shapes! Make sure they are roughly the same size so they can finish baking at the same time.

Shortbread cookies have the highest ratio of butter to flour ratio which makes them the most crumbly in texture and most brittle.

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In comparison, butter cookies are sturdier and don't break apart as easily compared to shortbread cookies. This makes them perfect for packaging up as gifts!

Sugar cookies have the lowest butter to flour ratio which also make them great for packing up as gifts. Sugar cookies are typically rolled flat and used with cookie cutter cut outs to make various shapes. They're great for decorating with icing for the holidays!

They taste best up to a week when stored in an airtight container. Wait for them to cool completely before placing them in the container to avoid any trapped humidity.

Mom's Christmas Butter Cookies (for Decorating)

Calories: 311 kcal | Carbohydrates: 29 g | Protein: 3 g | Fat: 20 g | Saturated Fat: 6 g | Cholesterol: 41 mg | Sodium: 8 mg | Potassium: 23 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 16 g | Vitamin A: 314 IU | Calcium: 8 mg | Iron: 1 mg

Tried this recipe? Let us know how it was and give it a 5 star rating! Tag @ to show off your creations! I love seeing your photos!What is more fun during the holiday season than baking pretty little treats to share with friends, neighbors and people you love? It makes me SO happy! Today I’m sharing my simple Christmas butter cookies, a super easy 5-ingredient recipe that you can make for your goodie plates this season!

One of my favorite things about this recipe is that the cookies are so quick to make. It’s a great one to make with kids because the part that’s most enjoyable is being able to decorate them so cute! You could make the frosting bags ahead to save even more time.

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You can certainly use Royal frosting on these for a “perfect” finish, but I have found that this little mixture of powered sugar and milk (with extract for flavor) works just great! Once you get the feel for the right consistency, the frosting always turns out super smooth.

As you can see here, the cookies keep their shape really well during baking! Here are a few fun cookie cutters for the holidays. Mine are the first (Walmart set $2.78).

You can easily make wreaths on your cookies by adding small lines in a circle shape with two different colors of green. Take a toothpick and drag it in a circle through the center of the lines. If you’d like to watch a video, I posted a reel HERE on instagram!

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Humidity or dry air can definitely make a difference with baking and frosting consistency. However, you should be able to test one cookie to get a feel for if your frosting is a touch thin or thick. When you fill the center of your outline, the frosting will look like it