These soft and chewy cookies are the ultimate Christmas sprinkle cookies! Not only do these pop with color, they are also the EASIEST cookie you can make. These are no roll sugar cookies, they bake as one big cookie then use a pizza cutter to make the mini squares!
NO ROLL SUGAR COOKIES
Sometimes you have time to make a more elaborate recipe, and sometimes you need a baking recipe that’s no fuss. Let me tell you, these really are the easiest cookie you’ll ever make. And what makes these a perfect Christmas cookie is that these are kid friendly too!
- No making cookie dough balls
- No need for any cookie cutters
- No rolling a sheet of dough and making a messy counter
This sugar cookie dough bakes as one big rectangle! After the baked cookie sheet as cooled, use your pizza cutter to slice into square cookies as big or as small as you want!
See how easy that is? And why this is the perfect cookie recipe to try with your little ones.
My big cookie looks like this. I measured 9″ x 10″ and find this is the best size for the perfect cookie texture.
The vibrant colored sprinkles just pop on these cookies, and you can add as much as you like! I typically use Betty Crocker sprinkles from the grocery store, you could also try some that don’t use artificial colors. I found these sprinkles on Amazon.
STORAGE AND MAKE AHEAD
The cookies are perfectly fine to make a few days ahead of time and keep stored under foil or in an airtight container. These stay nice and soft and chewy!
COOKIE BAKING TIPS
- This dough is wet and a little sticky, it’s not your traditional drier dough. Use a spoon, spatula or your hands to smooth out the dough and spread it on the sheet.
- Use the smallest baking sheet you have, when you spread out the dough it’s not going to spread all the way to the edges.
- My favorite thickness comes from making the large rectangle cookie dough 9″ tall by 10″ wide.
- One it has baked, use your pizza cutter to slice into little squares.
- This recipe uses shortening. I’ve never tried it with butter so don’t know how that would turn out. While I don’t use shortening often, it definitely works in this recipe!
- As noted above, if you don’t want the artificial coloring from traditional sprinkles, there are options for sprinkles that use natural coloring ingredients.
For more Christmas cookie inspiration try some of these!
Soft and Chewy Molasses Cookies
Brown Butter Chewy Oatmeal Cookies
Chewy Lemon Cookies
Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Hot Cocoa Cookies
Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Christmas sprinkle cookies are an easy and soft baked sugar cookie perfect for Holiday baking. This bakes as one big cookie on a sheet pan then just slice into mini squares using a pizza cutter!
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Total Time: 17 minutes
- Yield: 30 cookies
- Category: Baking
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
1 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour
5 tablespoons Crisco shortening
3/4 cup white sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon milk
2 teaspoons almond extract
1 egg
1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Colored sprinkles + 1 tablespoon sugar for decorating
Instructions
1. Heat oven to 350.
2. In a large bowl cream together the shortening and the 3/4 cup sugar. Add in the oil, egg, milk, and almond extract and beat until light and fluffy.
3. Gradually blend in the flour, baking powder, and salt at low speed.
4. Spread onto an ungreased baking pan. Mixture will not cover the entire pan, spread until about 1/4″ thick. Mine measured 9×10, it’s easiest to use your hands and press the dough out into the big cookie rectangle.
5. Sprinkle with the 1 tablespoon sugar and as much sprinkles as you’d like.
6. Bake for 10. Let cool for 5 minutes then slice with a pizza cutter to the desired cookie size!
Notes
This is a recipe my mom would make for us as kids! She found the recipe on the bag of Pillsbury Flour during the 1990’s.
These cookies are so easy to make and delicious! We use different colored sprinkles to make them festive for any occasion.
Thank you!! SO glad you liked these 🙂