While holiday baking with kids sounds family-friendly, the reality can be a long, messy process. Are there easy Christmas cookies to make with kids that aren’t a recipe for disaster? Chocolate peppermint blossoms use store-bought sugar cookie dough and Hershey’s kisses to make a simple but festive holiday treat. Learn more easy cookie recipes for kids that keep the happy in everyone’s holidays.
Christmas Cookies to Make With Kids That Make Holiday Baking Fun
What’s the secret to finding Christmas cookies to make with kids? Choosing basic, fun recipes that keep the waiting to a minimum is essential to holiday baking success. These Christmas cookies are cute, quick, and delicious, making them both adult and kid-friendly. Just be sure to use our oven maintenance tips before you bake so this trusty kitchen appliance is holiday-ready!
#1. Candy Cane Cookies
Easy cookie recipes for kids of all ages can be hard to find. But older kids will enjoy making this sugar cookie dough from scratch, while younger ones can roll and twist it. Once the dough comes together, split it into two balls and dye one red with food coloring. Roll the dough into ropes, twist the two colors together and bend them into candy cane shapes. Bonus option: add peppermint extract for traditional flavor!
Ingredients:
- Butter
- Flour
- Sugar
- Milk
- Vanilla
- Red food coloring
#2. Holiday Reindeer Cookies
Simple Christmas cookie recipes are at their simplest when you don’t need to preheat your oven…or even turn it on. Just dip Nutter Butter cookies in melted dark chocolate and lay them on wax paper. Adults and kids alike will love decorating the cookies with mini pretzels, marshmallows, and M&M candies to make their own reindeer faces.
Ingredients:
- Nutter Butter cookies
- Dark chocolate chips or melting wafers
- Mini marshmallows
- M&M candies
- Mini pretzels
#3. Chocolate Peppermint Blossoms
Blossom cookies are one of the easiest Christmas cookies kids can make, consisting of fun and simple steps. Adding melted and cooled baking chocolate to premade sugar cookie dough gives it a rich flavor, contrasting perfectly with candy cane-striped Hershey’s kisses. For some holiday sparkle, kids can sprinkle the cookies with coarse sugar before baking.
Ingredients:
- Refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- Baking chocolate
- Flour
- Hershey’s Holiday Candy Cane Kisses
#4. Holiday Cookie Pizza
What’s more fun than lots of little cookies? One big cookie. Using sliced, premade sugar cookie dough is one of the best kid-friendly holiday baking ideas for this recipe. Simply cut the dough into slices, pressing them to cover the surface of a pizza pan. Bake for 20 minutes and sprinkle the hot cookie with chocolate morsels and melted peanut butter. Spread the mixture to form the cookie pizza’s “sauce” and let little hands enjoy adding holiday M&Ms and sprinkles for “toppings.”
Ingredients:
- Refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- Chocolate morsels
- Peanut butter
- Holiday M&Ms
- Holiday sprinkles
#5. Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies
Using cake mix to make cookies is the latest baking rage, creating a more tender, fluffy crumb. This premade red velvet cake mix is one of the easiest Christmas cookies to make with kids, mixing up in minutes with just oil, eggs and salt. The red color is highlighted by white chocolate chips, revamping the traditional red velvet color scheme into a festive holiday cookie.
Ingredients:
- Red velvet cake mix
- Oil
- Eggs
- Salt
- White chocolate chips
We hope this list of easy Christmas cookies to make with kids brings joy to this year’s holiday baking. Merry Christmas from all of us at Aviv Service Today!
