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Christmas Butter Cookies are the perfect Christmas cookie recipe! Butter cookies are easy to make and they’re melt-in-your-mouth delicious! They’re rolled in holiday sprinkles and dipped in snowy white powdered sugar.
Christmas Butter Cookies
You can make them with red and green sprinkles for the holidays, or switch up the sprinkle color and make them any time of the year. Because it’s such a versatile cookie recipe, you need to keep this recipe on hand!
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Ingredients:
- Butter – salted or unsalted butter both work
- Cream Cheese
- Egg
- Vanilla Extract
- White Cake Mix
- Sprinkles
- Powdered Sugar
Butter Cookie Recipe:
Mix the softened butter and cream cheese in a large mixing bowl using a stand mixer or a large bowl with an electric hand-held mixer.
Mix in the egg and vanilla extract at medium speed. Be careful not to overmix!
Add the white cake mix and continue to mix at a lower speed until fully combined. Cover the mixing bowl with foil or plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator for one hour. In order to keep the right shape, the cookie dough needs to be chilled before baking.
Make-Ahead Recipe
The dough can be chilled in the fridge overnight if needed! Butter cookies are great for prepping in advance and baking as needed.
Freezer Instructions: Bake, cool, and freeze butter cookies in a freezer-friendly container or bag for up to 1 month.
Preheat your oven to 350ºF and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone non-stick baking mat. After getting the cookie sheets ready, prepare your workspace with powdered sugar and sprinkles.
Roll medium-sized (about 2″ wide) cookie dough balls into sprinkles. Next, roll the sprinkled cookie dough balls in the powdered sugar. The cookie dough is nice and sticky making this very easy!
Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven or until the edges turn just golden. Don’t overbake butter cookies! Remove the cookie trays from the oven before the edges turn brown. Immediately place them on a wire rack for cooling. They are EXTREMELY delicious enjoyed warm with a glass of milk. Everyone also loves them at room temperature too (if you can wait that long!).
These cookies are very light and fluffy in texture, with a lot of vanilla butter flavor! They are beautiful on a plate or in a tin for the holidays.
Storage
Store the cookies in an airtight container or zip-top bag either at room temperature or in the refrigerator for up to 7 days.
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Christmas Butter Cookies Recipe
Christmas Butter Cookies
Equipment
- Stand mixer or handheld electric mixer
- Large mixing bowl
- Parchment paper
- Baking sheet
- Wire cooling rack
- Bowls
- Spatula
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter (softened)
- 1 (8 oz.) package of cream cheese (softened)
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 box white cake mix
- 2 bottles sprinkles
- ½ cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Mix the softened butter and cream cheese together
- Mix in the egg and vanilla extract at medium speed. Be careful not to overmix!
- Add the white cake mix and continue to mix at a lower speed until fully combined.
- Cover the mixing bowl with foil or plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least one hour or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350℉
- Line the baking sheet with parchment paper
- Prepare your workspace with separate bowls of powdered sugar and sprinkles
- Roll medium-sized cookie dough balls (about 2″ wide) into sprinkles
- Roll the sprinkled cookie dough balls in the powdered sugar
- Bake for about 15 minutes or until the edges turn just golden. Don’t overbake butter cookies! Remove the cookie trays from the oven before the edges turn brown.
- Using a spatula, immediately place the cookies on a wire rack for cooling
Video
Notes
- Freezer Instructions: Bake, cool, and freeze butter cookies in a freezer-friendly container or bag for up to 1 month.
This recipe calls for cream cheese in ingredients but no where in the instructions talks about adding it. The ingredients say 1/2 cup of powdered sugar but the instructions call for granulated sugar? How are you supposed to make a recipe without matching ingredients and instructions?!?!
It’s a typo. Sorry. I typed granulated sugar where it SHOULD have said cream cheese (and where I show the cream cheese being mixed in the video). It’s fixed now, thanks for letting me know!