Skip to Content
Menu

Christmas Lights Cookies

Pillsbury Kitchens
Updated Apr 28, 2021
  • Pin
These easy sugar cookies twinkle and shine like a string of Christmas lights! Decorate Pillsbury™ sugar cookies with frosting, sparkling sugar and gumdrops for a fun way to light up the holidays.

More About This Recipe

Christmas Lights Cookies

  • Prep Time 60 min
  • Total 2 hr 0 min
  • Ingredients 7
  • Servings 24
  • Pin

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F. Place cookies 2 inches apart on ungreased large cookie sheets.
  • Step 
    2
    Bake 10 to 14 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool on cookie sheet 2 minutes; remove to cooling rack to cool completely.
  • Step 
    3
    Measure 1/3 cup frosting into each of 3 small bowls. Tint 1 green and 1 red with food colors to desired colors; leave remaining bowl white. Spread about 2 teaspoons of any color (red, green or white) onto each cookie. Lightly sprinkle with sparkling sugar.
  • Step 
    4
    Using photo as a guide, pipe cookie icing to make light strands, and add gumdrop pieces to make lights. Let stand until set, about 30 minutes.

Nutrition

140 Calories
5g Total Fat
0g Protein
24g Total Carbohydrate
17g Sugars

Tips from the

Pillsbury Kitchens

  • tip 1
    Use gel food colors rather than liquid food colors for this recipe so as not to thin the frosting too much. Find gel next to the liquid food colors in the baking aisle at the grocery store.
  • tip 2
    Lightly spray knife blade with cooking spray before cutting gumdrops to keep them from sticking to the blade.
  • tip 3
    When decorating, place gumdrop pieces cut side down so the sugared sides appear to "sparkle" like lights.
  • tip 4
    For best results, bake one cookie sheet at a time in the center of the oven.
  • tip 5
    Store cookies covered at room temperature up to 3 days.
© 2025 ®/TM General Mills All Rights Reserved

Reviews & Questions Section