Christmas Cookie Recipes for Kids

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Christmas is the wonderful time of the year. Making Christmas cookie is an important part of Christmas. Especially, kids love to make and eat Christmas cookies. For them, here we have given Christmas cookie recipes for kids. Baking Christmas cookies is the best way of spending time as a family. These recipes for snowball cookies as well as candy cane cookies are great when cooking with kids. Christmas cookies and other Christmas treats is an old custom in several households. These fun and tasty kid-friendly Christmas cookie recipes are not only easy to make but the entire family also gets involved in rolling, molding and plummeting the dough into festive holiday shapes. It does not matter what their age is, your kids will surely enjoy making cookie.

Below are given easy Christmas cookie recipes for kids.

1. Peppermint Snowball Cookie Recipe: This is one of the easy Christmas cookie recipes for kids. This Christmas cookie recipe is the best way of getting your kids involved. Kids love to dip cookies into chocolate and them roll them in grated coconut

   Ingredients:

   • 1 cup powdered sugar
   • 2 cups butter
   • 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
   • 8 oz white chocolate chips
   • 1 1/2 tsp peppermint extract
   • 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut

   Directions

   • In order to make peppermint snowball cookie recipe, first you need to mix together butter and powdered sugar in a big bowl. After this, you need to add in peppermint extract
   • Add ½ cup of flour and refrigerate it for 2 to 3 hours to firm dough
   • Now, preheat oven to almost 350 degrees. Roll dough into balls. After this, place them onto a baking sheet and then bake it at 15 to 20 minutes. Now, place it on a wire rack to cool
   • Place white chocolate chips into a microwave bowl. Keep it in microwave for 20 seconds. Now, stir it until melted
   • Finally, you need to dip every cooled cookie into white chocolate to coat and roll them in shredded coconut.

2. Candy Cane Sugar Cookie Recipe: Kids love rolling these festive candy cane cookies. For additional decoration, you can sprinkle crushed peppermint candies onto the cookies as they can be removed from the oven

   Ingredients:

   • ¼ tsp salt
   • 1 cup butter, softened to room temp
   • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
   • 2 tsp peppermint extract
   • 1 egg
   • ½ tsp vanilla
   • 1 cup granulated sugar
   • ¼ tsp red food coloring

   Directions:

   • To make candy cane sugar, first you need to mix together salt and flour.
   • Beat sugar and butter in a bowl. Now, add flavoring and egg in it. Slowly add in dry elements until mixed well.
   • After this, you need to separate dough in half. Wrap one portion of it in plastic wrap and then refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours until it becomes solid
   • Now, add red food color to the remaining dough and mix until you achieve desired color. Now, wrap dough in plastic wrap and then refrigerate
   • In order to shape cookies, you need to take spoonful of red and white dough and coil together for creating the shape of a candy cane.
   • Now, quietly press down dough to flatten
   • Finally, place on it on parchment paper and bake it at 375 degrees for 10 minutes