If you like cinnamon you'll love these cinnamon red hots sugar cookies! Soft, buttery cookies slathered in red hots candy frosting! Easy to make and so delicious. Perfect for any holiday cookie platter.
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I love the flavor of cinnamon. Every year when we make gingerbread cookies I make sure to grab a bag of red hots cinnamon candies. You simply can't make gingerbread cookies without adding a bit of icing and a few cinnamon red hots on top! The rest are saved for making red hots frosting. So delicious!
Cinnamon Red Hots Sugar Cookies
This recipe is for all red hots candy lovers. Red hots cinnamon frosting is absolutely delicious and perfect to slather over buttery sugar cookies. And if you're not in the mood to roll out and cut sugar cookies into shapes you'll love our method (copycat Swig cookies method) for shaping the sugar cookie dough.
Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- Butter
- Shortening
- Sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla
- Almond extract
- Baking powder
- Flour
No salt? If you're using salted butter (like I always do) no salt is necessary. If you are using unsalted butter, add ½ teaspoon of salt.
Red Hots Sugar Cookies Frosting
Ingredients
- Red hots candy
- Butter
- Vanilla
- Milk
- Powdered sugar
Easy Way to Shape Sugar Cookies
Scoop cookies, using a medium cookie scoop, onto ungreased baking sheets. Roll each scoop of cookie dough into a perfect ball using your hands.
Dip a glass in sugar and press down on each cookie dough ball to flatten.
These cookies will puff when baked, so make sure to really press down. I like pressing down until the edges come up over the side of the jar. See the video for a great visual.
These sugar cookies bake up in just 10 minutes. Let them rest on the baking sheet for 3-5 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack.
While the cookies bake, make the frosting.
Add cinnamon red hots candies into a food processor. Blend until it resembles coarse sand.
Combine the rest of the frosting ingredients in a bowl and beat until smooth. Stir in red hots candies.
Frost cooled cookies with cinnamon frosting. This recipe makes 3 dozen delicious cookies!
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Cinnamon Red Hots Sugar Cookies Recipe
Cinnamon Red Hots Sugar Cookies
If you like cinnamon you'll love these cinnamon red hots sugar cookies! Soft, buttery cookies slathered in red hots candy frosting!
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Servings: 36 cookies
Calories: 275kcal
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 1 cup butter softened
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ cup corn starch
- 3 ¼ cups all purpose flour
Cinnamon Red Hots Frosting
- ¾ cup red hots candies crushed
- ½ cup butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4-5 tablespoon milk
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl combine butter, shortening and sugar. Beat until fluffy.
- Turn mixer down and add egg, vanilla and almond extract. Add baking powder. Sift in and flour and cornstarch until mixed thoroughly (1-2 minutes).
- Scoop dough, using a medium cookie scoop, onto ungreased baking sheets. Roll each scoop of dough into a ball.
- Press a glass into each cookie dough ball to flatten. Dip glass in sugar to keep the glass from sticking to the cookie dough.
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes. Allow to cool on pan 3-5 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
- Allow cookies to cool completely before frosting.
Frosting
- Crush cinnamon red hots in a bag with a rolling pin, or pulse in a food processor until it resembles coarse sand. Set aside.Mix remaining frosting ingredients with electric mixer. Stire in red hots candy. Spread over cookies.
Notes
If using salted butter, no additional salt is necessary for the cookie dough. If using unsalted butter, add a ½ teaspoon of salt with the dry ingredients in the cookie dough.
Cookies can sit be stored at room temperature or chilled.
Nutrition
Calories: 275kcal
Janice says
I don’t understand what the lemons are for with the Red Hot Sugar Cookies. It said that we would need them but not what we were supposed to be to do with them. Thanks so much. I can’t wait to try this recipe.
Brandy says
I cloned my lemon sugar cookie recipe and changed a few things to create this one. Must have missed that sentence. Thanks! No lemons necessary for these cookies!
Stacey says
could you melt the red hots for a smoother texture rather than crush them up?
Brandy says
I haven't tried melting red hots before. I'd imagine that would be delicious, too!
Megan says
Mmmmm, these look so yummy!! I'm totally going to make these tonight! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
ingrid@nowathomemom says
they look very pretty and so delicious too these firework cupcakes! 🙂
stopping by from Tatertots and Jello
Ingrid
Brenda says
Now that looks so yummy!! I love red hot and cinnamon so this would be perfect to me!!! Now I can't wait to try this out! Thanks Brandy!
Brandy says
Anytime, Brenda! 🙂
Haunani Thunell says
YUM! LOVE cinnamon. LOVE red hots! LOVE the 4th of July. Definitely making these. Oh, and those star shaped marshmallows are too cute. Hope I can find some at the grocery store. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Brandy says
You are welcome! I found these marshmallows for $1 at Walmart in the baking section. Good luck!