Ugly Christmas Sweater Sugar Cookies

Prep 1 hr 10 min
Total 2 hr 10 min
Ingredients 4
Servings 12

We're keeping the ugly Christmas sweater tradition alive the Pillsbury™ way—with cookies! Decorate sweater-shaped sugar cookies with your favorite cookie icings, candies, sprinkles and more to make your quirky creations come to life. This is a great time to get the kids in the kitchen and have fun! MORE+ LESS-

By Pillsbury Kitchens

Updated September 23, 2019

Make with

Pillsbury Cookies

Ingredients

Cookies

roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated sugar cookies

1/4

cup all-purpose flour

Decorations, as desired

Assorted cookie icings

Assorted candies, sprinkles and decorating sugars

Steps

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1

Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, crumble cookie dough, and add flour, kneading until well blended.
2

On floured surface, roll dough 1/4 inch thick. Cut shapes with floured 3 1/2- to 4-inch sweater-shaped cookie cutter. On ungreased cookie sheets, place cutouts at least 2 inches apart. Reroll dough, and cut additional cutouts.
3

Bake 9 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool completely.
4

Using photo as a guide, decorate cookies. Let stand at least 30 minutes until set.

Expert Tips

For best results, bake cookies one sheet at a time in center of oven.
It’s helpful to pipe a border of cookie icing around edges of cookies before icing the rest of the surface to keep icing from sliding off sides.
Decorate these fun sugar cookies with cookie icing, decorating candy decors, miniature candy-coated chocolate candies, sprinkles, colored decorating sugars or nonpareils and more! Cookie icing is sold in pouches and can be found in the baking aisle of the grocery store.
Be sure to work quickly when adding decorations, as icing sets quickly.
Have an ugly Christmas sweater cookie decorating party (while wearing ugly Christmas sweaters, of course). Vote for your favorite cookie and award a prize, or enjoy your cookie as your prize!