Cute and quirky triangle Christmas tree cookies that are super easy to decorate using this method! No special cookie cutter or decorating skills required!
Our gingerbread cookie bars are another fun holiday cookie (easy to make, too!). You might also like our triple chocolate peppermint cookies.
Ready for a cute and easy technique for decorating sugar cookies this year? Don’t be intimidated by the bag of frosting in the photo. Piping the frosting onto these cute Christmas tree cookies is actually faster than spreading it with a butter knife! I’m not a professional cake or cookie decorator. My skills aren’t even intermediate or advanced, but I think cookies piped like these are adorable!
My friend, Tonya, decorates her Christmas sugar cookies like this. She actually pipes the lines super close so that they are touching and you don’t see any cookie underneath. Then she adds silver and gold edible pearls.
Triangle Christmas Tree Cookies
Step 1: Make a batch of triangle sugar cookies using your favorite sugar cookie recipe. (Here’s mine. It’s a good one and one of the most visited posts here!)
I just used a piece of white paper and a knife to quickly cut out the triangles. I liked the look of the triangles vs. using a Christmas tree cookie cutter.
Step 2: Pipe frosting back and forth across each cookie.
You can use royal icing if you’d like, but since royal icing dries, the little zig-zags could crumble and fall off since they are so skinny. I prefer a softer icing for these.
Step 3: Add colorful sprinkles for ornaments and lights.
Quick and Easy Triangle Christmas Tree Cookies
Easy Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoon almond extract
- 4 cup flour
- 1/2 cup corn starch
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
- 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).
- Lightly flour your working surface and shape dough into a large ball.
- No refrigeration necessary.
- Roll dough out to desired thickness (I usually do 1/4- 3/8″) and cut into shapes. Add flour to dough if it feels too sticky but a nice soft dough is what you want. Use a piece of paper cut into a triangle shape instead of a cookie cutter. A pizza cutter works great to cut around each triangle.Carefully transfer cut out cookie shapes with a spatula to a baking sheet. Bake baking sheets at 325 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Cookies will be soft. Let sit on baking sheet for 5 minutes before carefully moving to a cooling rack. Cool completely before frosting.
Frosting
- Place frosting in a ziploc bag or frosting bag. Zig zag across each cookie. Add sprinkles.
Notes
Nutrition
Best Vanilla Frosting For Sugar Cookies (Soft)
VANILLA BUTTER CREAM FROSTING
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 3 cup sifted powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3-4 Tbsp. milk
Instructions
- Whisk ingredients together and spread over cookies. Refrigerate leftovers.
Nutrition
These are cookies even I can decorate to look good! Thanks.
This is such simple and easy idea! Plus I LOVE how modern they are!
Oh, these are just darling!! I actually really like the zig zaggy look and the fact that you can see the cookie underneath. These are on my to-do list! 🙂 Lisa
These are awesome Christmas Tree Cookies! Hope you are enjoying your week and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday!
Miz Helen
Wow–so simple and absolutely darling. Love!
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They’re adorable Brandy, love how you decorated them
These are so cute!
Love these cute trees, and all the other cookies too! Thank you for sharing at Celebrate It!
We sure have enjoyed featuring your post this past week at Full Plate Thursday! Thanks so much for sharing with us and come back real soon!
Merry Christmas
Miz Helen