How to make easy flower cookies in ten minutes or less.

Circle sugar cookie with red frosting and white candies made to look like a flower

Go to the store and grab some plain cookies or dough and some frosting. It’s Christmas Eve, and you have 47 presents to wrap. The in-laws are coming for dinner, and you have to go to the post office to buy three more stamps. You still want to make cookies. I’ve got you covered (at least on the cookie part).

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Easy Flower Cookies

Yield: 12 cookies
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Ingredients

  • 12 sugar cookies
  • 1/2 cup buttercream frosting
  • 1 teaspoon candy sprinkles

Instructions
 

  • PIPE dots of buttercream around the edge of a circle cookie.
  • DRAG the frosting dots to the center of the cookie using the tip of a spoon. Use the tip of a spoon to drag the dots toward the center. REPEAT until you reach the middle.
  • PLACE white nonpareils in the center.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Author: Katrina Bahl
Keyword: christmas, cookies, frosting, sprinkles

Original recipes and images © In Katrina’s Kitchen

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You can use this technique on any cookie you like. I even used it on plain store-bought cookies here. You can find my favorite Best Sugar Cookie recipe and my Best Christmas Cookie Frosting.

I hope you find a way to bring somebody joy today. When in doubt, add sprinkles. Sprinkles make everyone smile. We’re finishing up a whole month of cookies every day. I hope you enjoyed the  I’ll Bring the Cookies Event as much as I did!

black and white photo with color sprinkle cookies and orange spatula that says be a good cookie

Have you seen this Be a Good Cookie Spatula from OXO hanging around lately? Last year, the OXO “Good Cookie” Spatula helped raise over $250,000 for pediatric cancer research as part of their partnership with Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising funds for pediatric cancer research. It was started by two OXO employees, Gretchen and Larry Witt, who lost their little boy, Liam, to pediatric cancer. It’s not too late to order a Good Cookie Spatula and support a great cause; plus, every time you look at it, you can’t help but smile!

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Some friends and I get together yearly to exchange cookies, bake, and decorate. There’s always lots of laughter and lots and lots of calories. This year was our biggest exchange yet, with over 63 DOZEN!

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