I make these Christmas sugar cookies for the holidays every year! Cut into festive shapes, they're perfect for decorating with icing and sprinkles.Jump to recipe Let’s make Christmas sugar cookies! My family loves breaking out our cookie cutters to bake these cookies for the holidays every year.They’re classic cut-out sugar cookies, with crisp edges, soft middles, and a warm, buttery flavor from vanilla and almond extract.Made with a simple 8-ingredient dough, they hold their shape in the oven, which means that you can cut them into all kinds of holiday shapes.While you could enjoy these Christmas sugar cookies plain, we think half the fun of making them is decorating them.

Top them with icing, plus sprinkles, colored sugar, and/or candies for a festive holiday treat.Why You’ll Love These Christmas Sugar Cookies They’re easy to make with 8 ingredients. You probably have everything you need already! They taste delicious, with a warm, buttery flavor.They’re perfect for decorating. Grab some holiday cookie cutters to cut out shapes, then top them with icing! I’m sharing a royal icing option and a non-royal icing option below.They freeze well. This recipe requires chilling the dough, so it can take several hours to bake and decorate these cookies.

I like to break up the steps by baking the cookies, then freezing them so that they’re ready to decorate on another day.How to Make Christmas Sugar CookiesYou can find the complete Christmas sugar cookie

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