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Easy Christmas Crinkle Cookies

Updated Nov 15, 2022
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Add a pop of color to your holiday dessert platter with these red and green holiday crinkle cookies, made in a flash thanks to Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough. This Christmas crinkle cookies recipe is perfect for when you need a festive, impressive-looking cookie, stat!

Easy Christmas Crinkle Cookies

  • Prep Time 25 min
  • Total 1 hr 45 min
  • Ingredients 5
  • Servings 44
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F.
  • Step 
    2
    Divide dough in half. Crumble half of dough in each of 2 small bowls. In one bowl, stir or knead dough, 2 tablespoons of the flour and the green food color until well mixed. Stir or knead remaining 2 tablespoons flour and the red food color into remaining half of dough until well mixed. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH FLOUR.)
  • Step 
    3
    Shape into 44 (1-inch) balls. In small bowl, place 1/4 cup of the powdered sugar. Roll each ball in powdered sugar (discard any remaining powdered sugar). Place balls 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
  • Step 
    4
    Bake 8 to 11 minutes or until tops are cracked and edges are set. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. In small bowl, place 1/3 cup powdered sugar; dip top of each cookie into powdered sugar. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Store in covered container at room temperature.

Nutrition

50 Calories
2g Total Fat
0g Protein
9g Total Carbohydrate
5g Sugars

Tips from the

Pillsbury Kitchens

  • tip 1
    Get the kids to help make these colorful Christmas crinkle cookies. They’ll love mixing and shaping the cookies into balls.
  • tip 2
    Freeze Easy Christmas Crinkle Cookies in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
  • tip 3
    For best results, bake cookies on the middle oven rack. For even baking, it’s best to bake one sheet at a time.
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