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Christmas Meltaways with Cranberry Frosting are light and fluffy butter cookies topped with delicious Cranberry Frosting perfect for a Christmas Cookie Exchange.

Closeup on two Christmas Meltaways with Cranberry Frosting sitting on a white dessert plate with two cranberries.

Sometimes all it takes is a bit of creaming sweet but tart frosting to take a cookie from great to spectacular. That is certainly the case for our Christmas Meltaways with Cranberry Frosting.  These unique and tasty Christmas Cookies would be great for a potluck dinner, a Holiday bake sale, or a Christmas Cookie exchange. Enjoy!

How to Make the Cookies

Closeup on a metal mixing bowl filled with Meltaway cookie dough.

Step 1: In a large bowl, cream butter, cornstarch, and powdered sugar until creamy.  Add in vanilla extract.  Add the flour and mix until combined.  Refrigerate dough for 2 hours.

Collage image showing how to press the cookie dough down onto the cookie sheet.

Step 2: To keep the cookies similar in size I measured out 2 oz. of dough for each cookie on my food scale.
Step 3: I rolled the dough into a ball and pressed the ball down with the bottom of a measuring cup.

Collage image showing the cookies before going in the oven and after coming out of the oven.

Step 4: Bake the cookies in a 350-degree oven for 10-12 minutes or until light brown around the edges.
Step 5: Allow the cookies to cool completely before frosting them.

How to Make the Cranberry Frosting

Stacks of meltaway cookies sitting behind a ramekin filled with homemade cranberry frosting.

Step 6: Make up a batch of our super delicious The Best Cranberry Buttercream Frosting.  It is the perfect topping for the Christmas Meltaway Cookies. You can find the recipe and detailed instructions on how to make this frosting right here.

Closeup on three Christmas Meltaways with Cranberry Frosting with cranberries in the back.

Step 7: Frost the cookies. For a bit of extra Holiday-flair, we sprinkled the frosting with glittery Sparkling Sugar. That’s all there is to it!  So pretty … so Christmas-y.

Closeup on a stack of Christmas Meltaways with Cranberry Frosting sitting on a white tablecloth surrounded by decorative cranberries.

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Christmas Meltaways with Cranberry Frosting

Yield 18-20 cookies
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Additional Time 10 minutes
Total Time 32 minutes

Christmas Meltaways with Cranberry Frosting are a light and fluffy butter cookie topped with delicious Cranberry Frosting perfect for a Christmas Cookie Exchange.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Butter, softened to Room Temperature (Sweet Cream Salted)
  • 1 cup Cornstarch
  • 1 cup Powdered Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 2 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour
  • 1 batch of our The Best Cranberry Buttercream Frosting
  • Sparkling Sugar (optional)

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl, cream butter, cornstarch and powdered sugar until creamy.
  2. Mix in Vanilla extract.
  3. Add the flour and mix until combined.
  4. Refrigerate the dough for 2 hours.
  5. Roll dough into a ball and slightly flatten the ball with the bottom of a glass or measuring cup before baking.
  6. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 10-12 minutes.
  7. Frost with The Best Cranberry Buttercream Frosting
  8. Decorate with Sparking Sugar

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Cuisine: American / Category: Christmas