Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies.jpg

Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies

The kids will love helping to make these cute cookies.

How long will it take?

50 minutes

What’s the serving size?

Makes approximately 24


What do I need?

  • 2½ cups plain flour
  • 1½ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 170g butter, at room temperature
  • 1 egg
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 1 tsp vanilla

For the Royal Icing

  • 1 ½ cups icing sugar
  • 1 egg white
  • ½ tsp lemon juice

How do I make it?

  1. Preheat oven to 175C.
  2. Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl.
  3. Using an electric mixer cream butter until smooth. Add sugar and mix to combine. Next add egg, vanilla and water and mix until light and fluffy.
  4. Add half the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix to combine. Repeat with remaining dry ingredients. Do not over mix.
  5. Turn dough out onto a well-floured surface and knead to bring together.
  6. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
  7. Remove from fridge and place on a lightly floured surface. Roll out to ½ centimetre thickness and cut out trees with a cookie cutter.
  8. Place on a lined baking tray and bake for 10 minutes or until golden.
  9. Allow cookies to cool before decorating with the icing.
  10. To make the icing, mix all icing ingredients together with an electric mixer until smooth. Add food colouring when the mixture is fully combined. Decorate with your choice of decorations.

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