Easy Santa Cookies Recipe

Southern Living Staff
Updated

Yields: 2 1/2 dozen

Ingredients

  • 1/4 (1 1/8-lb.) Basic Butter Cookie Dough

  • Sugar

  • 1 (4 1/4-ounce) tube red decorating frosting

  • 1 (4 1/4-ounce) tube white decorating frosting

  • 1/4 cup (1 1/2 ounces) semisweet chocolate morsels

  • 1/4 cup red cinnamon candies

  • 30 miniature marshmallows

  • 2/3 cup flaked coconut

Directions

  1. Shape Basic Butter Cookie Dough into 1-inch balls, and place on lightly greased cookie sheets. Dip a flat-bottomed glass into sugar, and flatten balls to 1/4-inch thickness.

  2. Bake at 350? for 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.

  3. Spread red frosting on top portion of the cookie to resemble a hat; spread white frosting on lower portion of the cookie to resemble a beard. Attach 2 chocolate morsels and 1 cinnamon candy with a small amount of frosting to resemble eyes and a nose. Gently press coconut into the white frosting. Press a marshmallow onto red frosting to resemble a tassel on the hat.