These Spiral Christmas Sugar Cookies are as fun and festive as they are delicious!

In honor of my birthday today I thought I’d bring you all a treat. Ridiculously adorable Christmas cookies!

Yea, yea, what does that have to do with my birthday? Well, I love sweets and I love Christmas, so it fits!

I’ve seen variations of this type of spiral cookie for the past several years and finally got around to making them.

And they were worth it! I used my favorite sugar cookie recipe from The Simple, Sweet Life that I also used for my Candy Corn Sugar Cookies and it worked so well.

Ingredients Need to Make These Spiral Christmas Sugar Cookies

butter
white sugar
egg
baking powder
vanilla extract
All-purpose flour
Green and red food coloring
Christmas sprinkles

Here is a visual of a few steps involved in making these cookies. Believe me, they are easier to make than you may think! Full instructions are in the recipe below.

First, start by making the batter and dividing them into two equal parts.

One will be with red food coloring, and the other will have green food coloring.

Then, roll each section of dough into a layer of about a 1/4-inch thick and place one on top of another.

Next, cut a rectangular shape out of the dough like shown in the image and roll the dough together tightly.

Now place the Christmas sprinkles onto a flat surface like a cutting board and roll the dough cylinder over the sprinkles.

Once the dough is well-coated with sprinkles, use a sharp knife to evenly slice the dough into circular-shaped cookies.

As you can see our Elf loved them too 🙂

Christmas sugar cookies with Elf on Shelf

My kids love helping me make all sorts of sweets around the holidays. But if you’re looking for something other than festive sweets, check out these tasty Christmas pancakes. My kids will definitely want to make them as soon as I suggest it. And check out the Elf also helping to make them!

Dietitian’s Dish

This may be TMI for a few people but it’s good to know.

Just a warning: if you as an adult eat a bit too many of these cookies (or dough-eek!), your stools will be green approximately 12-24 hours later.

And if your toddler eats just two of these cookies his stools will be bright green about 12 hours later. Don’t ask why I might know this! I just wanted to save you the trouble of googling “reasons for green stools.” You’re welcome 🙂

Disclaimer: Of course this truly did happen, but if you experience green stools more often than just after eating green/red cookies, consult your physician.

Spiral Christmas Sugar Cookies

Fun and festive sugar cookies with Christmas sprinkles!

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Ingredients

2 sticks 1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ½ cups all purpose flour
Food coloring green and red
Christmas sprinkles

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Mix butter until creamed.
Add sugar until fully mixed, followed by egg, baking powder and vanilla extract.
Mix until all ingredients are combined and have a creamy texture.
Slowly add flour, 1 cup at a time until dough is no longer “sticky.”

To make spiral cookie shapes

Separate dough into two equal parts, coloring one with green food coloring and the another with red food coloring.
Roll each dough out to about 1/4 inch think and place each on cookie sheets lined with wax paper, then cover each with wax paper.
Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Remove from refrigerator and place dough sheets on top of one another and place on a cutting board.
Press edges together and cut edges of dough to form a rectangle.
Begin rolling dough slowly to form a jelly-roll loaf.
Pour Christmas sprinkles on a large plate.
Roll loaf gently over sprinkles until well coated.
Slice cookie loaf into 1/4 inch thick cookies.
Bake on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper for 8-10 minutes (don’t over-bake, the cookies may not look done).

Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

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