Stacked Sugar Cookie Christmas Tree Recipe

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This is such a fun recipe that I’ve got for you today. They make the most adorable Christmas treat! This Stacked Sugar Cookie Christmas Tree recipe is sure to light up your holiday with some fun.

This is the perfect sugar cookie recipe, baked to 3 different sizes, with green Christmas frosting between, topped with a sprinkle star.

They’re easy to make, here’s what you’ll need-

For the cookies:

• 2 ¾ cup flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 cup butter
• 1 ½ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla

For the frosting:

• 16 oz. cream cheese frosting (premade)
• 2-3 drops green gel food coloring
• Christmas tree sprinkles mix
• Cake decorator, or piping bag with star decorating tip

You’ll start by preparing your cookies.

Begin with preheating your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit, then line your cookie sheet with parchment paper or give it a light spray with some non-stick spray.

In a medium bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set that bowl aside.

Next, get yourself a larger bowl to whip up this butter and sugar. Mix it with your mixer for 1-2 minutes until it is light and fluffy. This batch was seriously the best sugar cookie batch I’ve made. Look at how this butter and sugar turned out. It’s the secret to good sugar cookies, and if you can get your cold ingredients to room temperature before baking, you definitely should.

Then, add your egg and vanilla. Mix it together until just combined.

Finally, for the cookies, we’re going to roll them into small balls, try to do even amounts of 3 different sizes, and you really don’t want the largest one to be bigger than about 1 1/4 inches across. You’ll need one small, one medium, and then one larger sized cookie ball for each tree.

Bake these for 5-7 minutes, until they start to turn golden brown on the bottoms.

Once the cookies are baked and cooled, mix up your frosting. I love making my own frostings, but they are just so temperamental, and no one has time for that stress. If you have a go-to buttercream or cream cheese homemade frosting, feel free to make that, but I just used some store bought. Thank you, Betty Crocker! You’ll add a few drops of green gel food coloring, and mix it into your frosting until it is all mixed through.

I use this cake decorator to pipe frosting, and you’ll just pipe one little bit of frosting on your largest cookie, add a medium cookie, another bit of frosting, the smallest cookie, then one final bit of frosting, and a star sprinkle on top.

These are easy and they turned out so cute!

For a printable version of this recipe, see below.

These kitchen supplies might come in handy for making these-