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Delicious and festive Grinch sugar cookies

Grinch Sugar Cookies

Samantha Erb
A sweet and delicious Grinch sugar cookie made with premade sugar cookie mix and topped with a heart full of sprinkles.
4.50 from 4 votes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Additional Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 48 minutes
Course Christmas Recipes
Cuisine American
Servings 12 servings
Calories 298 kcal

Ingredients

Instructions
 

  • Pour the Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Mix into a mixing bowl and add softened butter and egg. Add 2-4 drops of green food coloring. Using a hand mixer, mix cookie dough until well combined.
  • Press cookie dough into a ball and wrap with plastic wrap. Chill for about 1 hour.
  • When dough is ready, preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  • Add 3 drops of green food coloring to ¼ cup sugar and stir to combine. You may want to press the sugar through a mesh strainer to get a nice consistent color.
  • Sprinkle a bit of flour out on your clean work surface. Place cookie dough on top of flour. Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough about ¼ inch thick.
  • Use a 2-inch round cookie cutter to cut cookies out. Place cookies on baking sheet about 3 inches apart. Bake cookies for about 7-8 minutes. You don’t want the edges to get brown or they won’t be as pretty, so watch the cookies carefully.
  • Remove cookies from oven and allow them to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes.
  • Use a heart cookie cutter to cut a heart out of the center of HALF the cookies. Allow cookies to finish cooling on a cooling rack.
  • Meanwhile, add 2-4 drops of green food coloring to 8 oz. of the cream cheese frosting. Stir to combine and mix well.
  • When cookies have cooled, spread a layer of frosting on the bottom of one cookie (without the heart cut out). Top a heart cookie on top so that the frosting peeks through the heart shape cut out. Fill the heart with red sprinkles, pressing the sprinkles gently into the frosting.
  • Store cookies in an airtight container.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 298kcalCarbohydrates: 39gProtein: 2gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 37mgSodium: 148mgSugar: 29g
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