Easy Christmas Light Cookies
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Easy Christmas Light Cookies
Description
This recipe for Easy Christmas Light Cookies starts with a classic sugar cookie dough made from flour, baking powder, salt, butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla. The dough is chilled to firm it up, allowing clean cookie cutter shapes. After rolling and cutting into 3-inch rounds, freezing before baking helps maintain cookie shape. Baking at 325°F yields gently golden edges without browning excessively. Cookies are cooled fully before frosting with a smooth white icing made from powdered sugar, corn syrup, and milk. Black decorating gel creates the light string designs, applied over the icing. Mini M&Ms are pressed into the gel to represent lights while it’s still wet, ensuring they adhere securely.
The finished cookies have a crisp edge and soft center with a sweet icing decorated to look like festive holiday light strands. Using mini M&Ms or similar small colored candies adds a playful color element. The white icing base and careful piping provide a neat, clean backdrop for the decorated light design. This recipe suits holiday baking with children or as seasonal giveaways.
Ingredients
FOR THE COOKIES
- 2 cups (240g) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar 200g
- 1 egg large
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract pure
FOR THE ICING
- 2 cups powdered sugar 240 g
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 2 tablespoons milk plus 1 tsp
- decorating gel back
- 1/2 cup mini M&Ms
Instructions
- Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside.
- Using a mixer, beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy in a large bowl. Add in the egg and vanilla and combine. Stir in your dry ingredients from the medium bowl.
- Shape dough into a flattened ball and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate the dough about an hour, or until chilled.
- Preheat the oven to 325F/163C, while preheating, line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- Lightly flour a clean surface and roll out your chilled dough to a quarter-inch thick. Using a cookie cutter, cut out 3” rounds and place on your lined baking sheets. Freeze for 30 minutes.
- Bake cookies 16-18 minutes, or until edges are a light golden color. Let cool completely.
- While cookies are cooling, make icing by stirring together powdered sugar, corn syrup and milk until smooth. Add milk in small increments to thin if necessary.
- Using a spoon, frost each cookie with about 1 Tablespoon of icing. Use the back of the spoon to smooth the icing in an even, smooth circle.
- Using your black decorating gel, draw you thin lines across the cookies to create a string of lights. Immediately add your M&Ms on the black line to create the colored lights. Let cookies dry and set.
Notes
- If mini M&M’s are unavailable, regular-size or other colored candies can be substituted.
- For convenience, use store-bought cookie dough or premade cookies to decorate instead of baking from scratch.
- Allow the white icing to dry completely before piping the black gel to avoid mixing colors.
- Place M&Ms on immediately after piping gel and press gently so they stick firmly.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 24cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 174 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 174kcal | 9% |
| Carbohydrates | 31g | 10% |
| Protein | 2g | 4% |
| Fat | 5g | 8% |
| Saturated Fat | 3g | 15% |
| Cholesterol | 18mg | 6% |
| Sodium | 90mg | 4% |
| Potassium | 26mg | 1% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 22g | 44% |
| Vitamin A | 138IU | 3% |
| Calcium | 15mg | 2% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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