Christmas tree-shaped cookies for a festive vacation dessert

Impress Christmas dinner company by following your vacation meal with these stacked cookies that resemble Christmas bushes.

Melanie Cagle, the founding father of meals weblog The Cagle Diaries, first made these cookies after evacuating her residence in Houma, Louisiana, from Hurricane Ida. 

“My little lady who’s 6 stated she needed to make Christmas cookies. Who am I to inform her it’s not doable? I imply, it was September, however why not? I had seen cookies like this final 12 months, on social media, I believe, and so they caught with me,” Cagle instructed Fox Information Digital in 2021. 

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“They’re so cute and easy to make,” she continues, including that the recipe is particularly enjoyable to make with children.

You possibly can retailer these cookies in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as every week or freeze them in a freezer-safe container for as much as three months, as Cagle notes.

Stacked Christmas Tree Cookies by Melanie Cagle, The Cagle Diaries

Makes 15 cookies

Prep time: quarter-hour

Cook dinner time: 25 minutes

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Substances:

Cookies:

1 cup salted butter, softened

¾ cup granulated sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 ½ cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

These Christmas tree sugar cookies are made with vibrant inexperienced frosting.
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Frosting:

3 cups powdered sugar

½ cup salted butter, softened

3 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Meals coloring, inexperienced

Sprinkles for adorning

Pipe (or unfold) frosting onto the highest of the biggest dimension cookie and place the center dimension cookie on prime. 
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Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 °F.

2. In a medium bowl, beat collectively butter, sugar, egg and vanilla extract till fluffy.

3. In a separate bowl, whisk collectively flour and baking powder.

4. Then add this combination to the butter combination and beat it till nicely blended.

5. Subsequent, we’ll form the dough into 3 totally different sizes of cookies. (Every cookie can be rolled right into a ball.) Use a rounded 1 teaspoon of dough to make 1 small ball. Then you’ll use 2 rounded teaspoons of dough to make a center dimension ball, and three rounded teaspoons of dough to make a big ball. You need to have the identical variety of every dimension of the ball. You need to have the ability to make not less than 15 balls of every dimension.

Use the frosting to “glue” collectively the cookies to make a Christmas tree.
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6. Place the small balls onto 1 parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Use a glass to softly flatten them a bit of. Place the medium dimension balls on one other sheet and once more press them down gently. And place the big balls on a separate sheet and press them down barely. (The totally different sizes of cookies ought to bake on totally different sheets, as they won’t bake on the identical charge.)

7. Bake till the bottoms are simply golden. Small cookies will take 4-6 minutes. Medium will take 6-8 minutes. Giant will take 8-10 minutes.

8. Take away the cookies from the baking sheets and permit them to chill fully on wire racks.

9. Put together the frosting whereas the cookies are cooling.

10. In a medium bowl, beat collectively powdered sugar and butter. When that is nicely creamed collectively, beat within the milk and vanilla extract (and meals coloring if desired).

11. Use the frosting to “glue” collectively the three cookies (the biggest on the underside, then middle-sized, then the smallest on prime) to make a Christmas tree or snowman. Pipe (or unfold) frosting onto the highest of the biggest dimension cookie and place the middle-size cookie on prime. Pipe (or unfold) the frosting on the highest of the middle-size cookie and place the small cookie on prime. Then, proceed adorning with the frosting.

Think about whipping up these fairly, scrumptious stacked Christmas tree cookies for a vacation dessert.
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This recipe was crafted by Melanie Cagle of thecaglediaries.com and shared with Fox Information Digital.