Christmas Cookies for Santa

A gren plate filled with red and green candy decorated Christmas cookies

5 from 3 votes

These M and Ms Christmas cookies are easy to make, look adorable and are a delcioiusly soft cookie bite recipe perfect to leave out for Santa!

Prep Time20

Cook Time6

Total Time26

Course: Baking

Cuisine: New Zealand

Keyword: christmas cookies, cookies for santa, m and m cookies, m and m christmas cookies, soft christmas cookies

Servings: cookies

Calories: 49kcal

Author: Stacey

Ingredients

100 g butter
100 g icing sugar ½ cup
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 egg
300 g flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 cup m&ms

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius (160 degrees fan-forced).
In a medium/large mixing bowl cream the softened butter, icing sugar, vanilla essence and egg.
Add the flour and baking powder, combine to form a soft cookie dough, you can either use a beater or wooden spoon for this stage.
Use a small scoop or 15ml tablespoon to make even portions of dough (you will end up with approximately 50-54 cookies. Roll into balls and put on a lined baking tray/cookie sheet.
Gently flatten the dough balls, I do this by placing a small piece of baking paper on top and gently pressing down on each cookie with a flat bottomed measuring cup, you can use your hand or a spoon/fork.
Decorate your cookies with m and ms. (red and green ones if you are going for a Christmas cookie!
Bake for at 180 degrees celsius 6 minutes, you don't want these cookies to be too golden. The cookies will be soft when you remove them from the oven but they will become more firm as they cool.

Notes

These cookies aren't tricky, my one tip is if you are making these with your kids be sure you are doing it at a time when you are in the right headspace, not rushed, and are feeling relaxed.. baking with kids goes much better like this.
If your kids are younger you can always do the first steps without them and get them involved for decorating!
Be sure to leave 1 - 2 of these cookies out for Santa on Christmas eve.
Once these cookies are completely cool store them in an airtight container for up to five days. You can also freeze the dough to get your bake on at another time.
icing sugar: In some parts of the world this is called confectioners sugar.
egg: This cookie recipe works well egg-free with 3 Tablespoons of condensed milk as a substitute for the egg
m&ms You can decorate these cookies with other sweets or chocolate chips.

Nutrition

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