Our Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites are a bite-sized version of the classic Christmas sugar cookies with buttercream frosting. So yummy and so easy to make!

Closeup on a white bowl filled with Red, Green and White Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites.

We love Frosted Sugar Cookies.  It is one of a handful of Holiday Treats that we definitely make every Christmas.  This year we tried something new with these Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites and Boy oh Boy were they a hit with the family! They are easy to bake and you don’t need Christmas cookie cutters.  They are so easy to decorate that even the youngest family member can join in on the fun.  And most importantly, they are a super delicious bite-sized treat of yummy sugar cookie and creamy buttercream frosting.  You’ll definitely want to add these cookies to your Christmas Baking List this year!

Clear glass mixing bowl filled with Sugar Cookie dough and a white wooden spoon.

Step 1: Our Christmas Sugar Cookies Bites start with our Best Sugar Cookie Recipe.  This sugar cookie dough is easy to work with, tastes great, and really holds its shape during the baking process.  You can find the recipe and detailed instructions on how to make the dough here.  We made a half-batch of our Best Sugar Cookie Recipe and ended up with 100 Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites that were approximately 1 square inch in size.

How to Make the Buttercream Frosting

Clear glass bowl filled with homemade Buttercream Frosting.

Step 2: The key to these delicious cookies is our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe.   It is light and creamy and buttery and super delicious! You will find the recipe and directions here.  One batch of frosting will be enough to frost all of the mini cookies.  Once you have the frosting made, split it into three portions. One you will leave white, the other two you will tint Red and Green. We like the Wilton Color Right Food Coloring.  It is concentrated and you can get a bright color without having to use too much food coloring. To create the three Christmas shades of Christmas Red and Christmas Green we used Wilton Color Right Food coloring in the following amounts:

  • Red – 10 drops of Red and 4 drops of Crimson
  • Green –8 drops of Yellow and 3 drops of Blue

How to Bake the Cookies

Closeup on a rolled out piece of Sugar Cookie dough with a rolling pin and a cookie cutter.

Step 3: Roll out the sugar cookie dough with a rolling pin.  We used a small square cookie cutter to cut out our Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites but you could also cut the dough into strips and then cut the strips into squares.

Collage image showing Sugar Cookie Bites before going in the oven and after coming out of the oven.

Step 4: Bake the cookies in an oven preheated to 350 degrees oven for 4-5 minutes.  Check on the cookies at the 4-minute mark, because they are so small you don’t want to overbake them.  The edges will be slightly golden when they are ready to come out of the oven.
Step 5: Allow the cookie bites to cool completely before frosting them.

Closeup on a silver cookie sheet that is holding unfrosted cookie bites, frosted Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites and a white ramekin filled with Christmas Sprinkles.

Step 6: Now the fun begins.  No fancy decorating skills required.  Use a knife to spread the yummy buttercream frosting onto the Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites and then add sprinkles.  So easy … so fun.

Frosted Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites sitting on a silver cookie sheet.

Step 7:  Repeat the process with the Red and White frosting too! Allow the Best Buttercream Frosting to set before you store the cookies away.  (But you don’t have to wait to eat them!)

Expert Tips and FAQ’s

Use Room Temperature Ingredients

Both the eggs and the butter should be at room temperature which will help your cookies turn out lighter and fluffier.  For the eggs, room temperature simply means not cold out of the refrigerator. If you forget to take the eggs out before you start making cookie dough you can put the eggs in a bowl of warm water for 5-10 minutes to warm them up.  The butter also needs to be softened to room temperature which means if you touch it you should leave an indentation on the stick of butter. Do not use butter that has been over-softened or melted.  If that happens you should use a different stick of butter or put it back into the refrigerator to let it set up.  We have a whole post about How to Soften Butter, click here if you need more information on how to do that.

Do you need to use a Mixer?

Yes. In our opinion, you need some kind of a mixer to make a good cookie dough. A stand mixer, while expensive, is a great investment if you believe you have a lot of homemade baked goods in your future. An electric hand-mixer also works well and you can probably find one for around $20. You can hand mix cookie dough in a pinch (which is how we did it growing up), but you will really have to use a lot of muscle to cream the butter and sugar, and eggs properly.

Cookie Dough Mixing Tips

Creaming the butter, sugar and then mixing the eggs in is the most important part of the cookie dough mixing process. Creaming is when you fully incorporate the butter and sugar together and add some much-needed air to the dough. We recommend creaming the butter and sugar for 2 minutes at medium-high speed and then mixing the butter/sugar/eggs for another 3 minutes at the same speed. Once you add the flour, you want to mix the dough as little as possible. Mix it too much and you will get tough cookies. Mix in the flour at low speed and continue mixing ONLY until the dry ingredients are incorporated into the dough. Make sure you scrape down the sides and the bottom to make sure all the flour has gotten mixed in.

Prepping the Cookie Sheet

We always line our cookie sheets with a piece of parchment paper, it keeps the cookie from sticking to the sheet and from over-browning. You can find parchment paper either in rolls or in pre-cut sheets in most grocery stores, and we highly recommend it. Ideally, you should use at least 2 cookie sheets when baking cookies. You don’t want to add the raw cookie dough to a cookie sheet that is hot out of the oven. The dough will start baking even before you get it in the oven.

Oven Tips

Everyone’s oven is different. We recommend starting with a test bake with a single cookie to help you hone in on the exact baking time for your oven. You should set your timer for 2 minutes less than whatever the recipe recommends. Once the timer goes off, open up the oven and see how your cookie is baking. Make corrections accordingly. Our oven has a hot spot in the back so we always rotate the cookie sheet halfway through the baking time to get a more even bake. Although this may seem like an unnecessary step, it is better to do this than burn a whole tray of cookies.

Storage/Freezing Tips

Cookies should always be stored in an airtight container.  They should be completely cooled before storing them. Cookies stored at room temperature should stay fresh for 3-4 days. You can also keep them in the refrigerator and that extends their freshness for up to a week. If you need them to last longer, you can freeze them for up to 3 months. You can pull them out of the freezer and leave them on the counter for 1 hour and they will be ready to eat.

White serving bowl filled with Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites sitting on a white table surrounded by Christmas sprinkles.

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Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites

Yield 100 cookie bites
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Additional Time 10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes

Our Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites are a bite-sized version of the classic Christmas sugar cookies with buttercream frosting. So yummy and so easy to make!

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Make a half-batch of our Best Sugar Cookie Recipe  and roll out the cookie dough on a floured surface.
  2. We used a small square cookie cutter to cut out our Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites but you could also cut the dough into strips and then cut the strips into square.
  3. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 4-5 minutes.  Check on the cookies at the 4 minute mark, because they are so small you don't want to over bake them.  The edges will be slightly golden when they are ready to come out of the oven.
  4. Next, make a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting Recipe.  We split this batch into three bowls and colored one batch green using 3 drops of Americolor Leaf Green Food Coloring, one bowl red using 4 drops of Americolor Super Red Food Coloring and left one bowl white.
  5. Frost the Sugar Cookie Bites and add Christmas sprinkles.

Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!