Grinch Christmas Cookies
Add these Grinch Christmas Cookies to your list this year! These sparkly green cookies have a kiss "Santa hat" in the middle making them look just like The Grinch Who Stole Christmas!
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 97kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp green food color
- 2 tbsp green sugar
- 24 candy cane kiss candies unwrapped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a cookie sheet and set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add in the egg and vanilla extract.
- Continue to mix until light and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Add half of the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Mix.
- Add 1 tbsp of milk and continue to mix.
- Mix in the remaining dry mixture.
- Finally, mix in the last of the milk.
- Add in the green food color and continue to mix until your batter is no longer crumbly and completely green.
- Take golf-ball sized balls of dough and roll them in the palms of your hands until smooth.
- Place the green sugar in a small bowl.
- Roll the Grinch Christmas cookie dough balls into the green sugar and arrange them on a cookie sheet, 1 inch apart.
- Bake in the oven for 12-13 minutes, until they are just lightly brown around the edges.
- Remove from the oven and let cool 2 minutes.
- Working quickly, press a candy cane kiss cookie into the center of each Grinch sugar cookie.
- Let the cookies cool for 10 minutes and then carefully transfer them to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
- Store in an air-tight container.