Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies
These colorful Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies are a unique take on a traditional Sugar Cookie and the technique can be used in any color combination you can dream up!
Sugar Cookies are our favorite Holiday cookies. Frosted … plain … it doesn’t matter how you serve them, we will gobble them up. The marbling technique in this recipe is one fun way to dress up our super yummy Best Sugar Cookie recipe for Christmas that we very much endorse. These Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies are so striking and festive in red, green, and white. It is a Christmas Cookie win/win situation.
How to Make the Sugar Cookie Dough
Step 1: The first step in making Marble Sugar Cookies is to make up a batch of our Best Sugar Cookie recipe dough. This dough makes the best sugar cookies we have ever eaten and the cookies really keep the shape of the cookie-cutter during the baking process. We can’t recommend this recipe enough and you’ll find the recipe here!
How to Tint the Sugar Cookie Dough
Step 2: Split the sugar cookie dough into three equal portions using a food scale. Leave one-third of the cookie dough white. And color the other two, red and green. We use Wilton Color Right Food Coloring, it gives food a bright intense color without having to use a ton of food coloring. To get these pretty shades of red and green, we used the following formulas:
Red: 3 drops of Crimson and 3 drops of Red
Green: 3 drops of Yellow and 2 drops of Blue
How to Create the Marble Cookies
Step 3: To get the pretty marble effect on the cookies, roll 12 small balls of cookie dough in each of the three colors. Each ball should be about the size of a large walnut.
Step 4: Take the green dough balls and arrange them on the rolling surface. Then randomly add in the white dough balls. Finally, add in the red dough balls. Use your hands to press together the dough balls into a circle as shown in the picture above.
Step 5: Use your rolling pin to roll out the dough until it is about 1/4″ – 1/3″ thick (depending on how thick you want your Marble Sugar Cookie to be.)
Step 6: Now arrange your cookies cutters on the rolled-out dough so that the cut-out cookie will have all three colors on the dough in the shape.
Baking Instructions
Step 7: You can see how pretty and varied the marble pattern turns out on the cut-out cookies. If you want, you can add some Sugar Sprinkles onto the cookies before you bake them.
Step 8: Bake them in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for 7-10 minutes (depending on how big the cookies are). Do not overbake. You don’t want them to brown.
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Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies
These colorful Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies are a unique take on a traditional Sugar Cookie and the technique can be used in color combination you can dream up!
Ingredients
- 1 batch of our Best Sugar Cookie dough
- Wilton Color Right Food Coloring - Red, Crimson, Yellow, Blue
- [White Sparkling Sugar Sprinkles]
- [Christmas Cookie Cutters]
Instructions
- The first step in making Marble Sugar Cookies is to make up a batch of our Best Sugar Cookie recipe dough. This dough makes the best sugar cookies we have ever eaten and the cookies really keep the shape of the cookie-cutter during the baking process. We can't recommend this recipe enough and you'll find the recipe here!
- Split the sugar cookie dough into three equal portions using a food scale. Leave one-third of the cookie dough white. And color the other two, red and green. We use Wilton Color Right Food Coloring, it gives food a bright intense color without having to use a ton of food coloring. To get these pretty shades of red and green, we used the following formulas: Red: 3 drops of Crimson and 3 drops of Red Green: 3 drops of Yellow and 2 drops of Blue
- To get the pretty marble effect on the cookies, roll 12 small balls of cookie dough in each of the three colors. Each ball should be about the size of a large walnut.
- Take the green dough balls and arrange them on the rolling surface. Then randomly add in the white dough balls. Finally, add in the red dough balls. Use your hands to press together the dough balls into a circle as shown in the picture above.
- Use your rolling pin to roll out the dough until it is about 1/4″ – 1/3″ thick (depending on how thick you want your Marble Sugar Cookie to be.)Step 6 Now arrange your cookies cutters on the rolled-out dough so that the cut-out cookie will have all three colors on dough in the shape.
- You can see how pretty and varied the marble pattern turns out on the cut-out cookies. If you want, you can add some Sugar Sprinkles onto the raw dough.
- Bake them in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for 7-10 minutes (depending on how big the cookies are). Do not overbake. You don’t want them to brown.
- Allow the cookies to cool before storing them.
Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!
I’m with Patty! No mess with the frosting, just pretty cookies with sugar on top!
I’m with Patty! no messy frosting, just pretty with sugar on top!
Thank you for the recipe.
Tried this with my 6 year old daughter, the cookies came out so colorful and she just loved making the cookies with me. We used brown sugar and so the color of the white dough wasn’t exactly white and we used mini chocolate chips to decorate the cookies.
They are a little on the soft side so I thickened a batch and cooked it until golden. Theyre perfect thank you!
Can you freeze these cookies?
Sure!
Are these soft Sugar cookies or ones which snap when bent?
Hi Erin – they are on the soft side.
I cannot find if you color with gel or regular food coloring. Please help!
Hi – we used the Wilton Color Right Food Coloring which is a very concentrated liquid gel.
I just made these and the cutters I had were bad so i ended up ripping the colors into little pieces then rolling them into balls topped with gold sugar sprinkles. They ended up being little tie dye Christmas cookies and everyone at the bars enjoyed them!!
Tired these with my kids last weekend. It was awesome. They turneed out great. Can’t wait to adapt the colors for Easter.
Hi, how many cookies usually come out of the recipe
Hi Rachel – it really depends on how big the cookie cutters you use are and how thick you roll out the dough.
Can sugar cookies b made with Splenda for us diabetics?
Hi Sharon, we have never tried it with Splenda, but I don’t see why not. If you try it, let us know how it turns out.
What a cute way to do cookies for Christmas! No messes with the icing with little hands. Thanks for this!
Thanks Patty!
Love the idea of this recipe, is there a print option on your pages?
Yes, you can print the recipe from our Best Sugar Cookie Recipe page: https://www.twosisterscrafting.com/best-sugar-cookie-recipe/