Learn how to decorate store-bought cookies for Christmas in a few simple steps. These are super easy Christmas cookies for kids to make and will look like you spent hours slaving over cookies! Gluten-free.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time13 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: decorate store-bought cookies, easy Christmas cookies for kids
Bake cookies. Bake cookies per package instructions. Kids can slice the dough into cookies by using a butter knife or plastic kids knife. Let cool.
Prepare the icing. To a mixing bowl, add powdered sugar, milk, light Karo syrup, and almond extract. Blend until smooth. Divide the icing, leaving a little over half in the bowl. You'll use this to ice all the cookies before adding any color. You want the icing to be on the thicker side so if it's too runny add additional powdered sugar to thicken (so it won't run off the cookie).
⭐️ Divide and color the icing. Divide the other half of the icing into a small bowl adding 1 teaspoon of milk to thin. This icing should be thinner than the other icing. Divide into 2 small dressing bottles or ziplock bags. Add red food coloring to one bottle or ziplock bag and green to the other. Stir until blended.
Ice the cookies. Ice each cookie with the thicker white icing. Place small dots of both red and green onto the white icing. Using a toothpick or wooden skewer, gently drag through the colored dots, blending into the white icing. Top with sprinkles if desired. Let dry then store in an airtight container or freeze.
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CCK Features both Gluten-Free Guidance and Kids Cooking Instructions: If you're new to eating gluten-free we understand it's overwhelming trying to figure out which foods may contain gluten and which ones don't. All of our gluten-free recipes marked with this symbol ✅ represent foods that need to be checked for gluten or cross-contamination.The ⭐️ symbol in the recipe below denotes the steps in which kid cooks may need a helper (depending on age). If there is no ⭐️ symbol, that step (or recipe) doesn't require a helper.