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3-Ingredient Marbled Holiday Sugar Cookies

Pillsbury Kitchens
Updated Oct 20, 2021
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Deck the halls with these marbled sugar cookies! Get your little chefs in the kitchen, and bake these easy-prep treats for the holiday season. Make your marbled iced cookies extra festive with candy sprinkles, colored decorating sugars, or by adding nonpareils to dipped cookies! Yum!

3-Ingredient Marbled Holiday Sugar Cookies

  • Prep Time 15 min
  • Total 3 hr 5 min
  • Ingredients 3
  • Servings 24
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F. Place cookie dough rounds about 2 inches apart on ungreased large cookie sheets.
  • Step 
    2
    Bake 10 to 14 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 20 minutes.
  • Step 
    3
    In each of 2 small bowls, place 2 tablespoons frosting; tint 1 bowl green and 1 bowl red by stirring in food color to desired color. In large shallow microwavable bowl, spoon remaining 1/2 cup untinted frosting in center of bottom of bowl. Spoon colored frostings on either side of untinted frosting. Microwave uncovered on High 20 to 30 seconds or until warmed and thinner glaze consistency. (Do not mix colors together.)
  • Step 
    4
    Dip top side of each cookie into glaze, letting excess drip off. Place cookie right side up on cooling rack placed over cookie sheet or waxed paper. Rewarm frosting mixture in microwave to maintain dipping consistency, if needed while dipping cookies. Let stand about 2 hours or until set.
  • Step 
    5
    Store covered in airtight container at room temperature with waxed paper between layers.

Nutrition

100 Calories
4 1/2g Total Fat
0g Protein
16g Total Carbohydrate
10g Sugars

Tips from the

Pillsbury Kitchens

  • tip 1
    Cookies turn out best when baked one sheet at a time on the middle oven rack.
  • tip 2
    Watch closely when warming frosting in microwave; it does not need a lot of time before it starts to melt down into a looser texture perfect for dipping.
  • tip 3
    When dipping cookies, keep damp paper towels nearby, so you can keep your fingers clean and cookies smudge free.
  • tip 4
    No need to swirl colored frostings together to achieve this marbled design. This is the result of the cookies being dipped with the excess frosting dripping back into the bowl, which gives the swirled and different look for each cookie.
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