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Slice-and-Bake Christmas Tree Cookies

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Updated Sep 19, 2018
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No cookie cutters required! These festive Christmas tree cookies start with sugar cookie dough rolled in sprinkles before the dough is chilled. Then all you have to do is slice and bake for the cutest cookies that’ll make you look like you went above and beyond!

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Slice-and-Bake Christmas Tree Cookies

  • Prep Time 40 min
  • Total 4 hr 10 min
  • Servings 64
  • Ingredients 7
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Ingredients

  • 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
  • 1/4 cup Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons Betty Crocker™ green gel food color
  • 1 container (2.1 oz) Betty Crocker™ Decorating Decors holiday candy sprinkles (about 1/3 cup)
  • 20 pretzel sticks

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    In large bowl, mix cookie mix, flour, softened butter and egg with spoon until soft dough forms. Add food color; knead dough until blended.
  • Step 
    2
    Divide dough in half; shape each half into 8-inch log. Roll in sprinkles. Reshape dough into triangle-shaped log. Wrap dough logs tightly with plastic. Refrigerate about 2 hours or until very firm.
  • Step 
    3
    Heat oven to 375°F. Unwrap 1 of the dough logs; cut into 1/4-inch triangular slices. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets, reshaping if necessary. Break pretzel sticks into thirds. Insert pretzel piece slightly in base of each triangle for tree trunk. Repeat with remaining dough log.
  • Step 
    4
    Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until edges are set. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Store covered in airtight container.

Nutrition

50 Calories
2g Total Fat
0g Protein
8g Total Carbohydrate
4g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie
Calories
50
Calories from Fat
20
Total Fat
2g
3%
Saturated Fat
1g
5%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
5mg
2%
Sodium
35mg
2%
Potassium
5mg
0%
Total Carbohydrate
8g
3%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
4g
Protein
0g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
0%
0%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0%
0%
Iron
0%
0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
1/2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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