Grinch Sugar Cookies are the perfect way to give some festive flair to your holiday dessert table. These soft and sweet sugar cookies are my own twist from the popular Christmas movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
This recipe is a soft and fluffy Grinch Sugar Cookie that will melt in your mouth. These cookies are always a hit with young and old alike.
Watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a yearly Christmas Tradition in our household. Every year we gather around the TV and find our favorite snacks. This year I will be making these Grinch Sugar Cookies enjoy while we kick back and watch the family’s favorite movie.
If you are hosting a Grinch-themed Christmas party or you just want a fun and different cook to take to your next cookie exchange these Grinch Sugar Cookies are just what you need to liven up the party. What could be better in a Grinch cookie than frosting and soft sugar cookies?
Why you should make this Grinch Cookie recipe
- Easy to make – These fun and festive Grinch Cookies are perfect for the hoildays. They are going to love amazing on your holiday dessert table.
- Soft and chewy – This easy Grinch Sugar Cookie recipe is so simple to make that the entire family is going to love helping out in the kitchen.
- Great for Santa – This cookies will look so good on a plate waiting for Santa to come down the chimney for his Christmas eve dessert. Santa and his elves always love Grinch Sugar Cookies.
If you love recipes like this, you may also enjoy this Fresh Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.
What You Need To Make This Grinch Sugar Cookie Recipe
- Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Mix
- butter, softened
- egg
- Cream Cheese Frosting
- Red Sprinkles
- sugar
- Green Food Coloring
- Flour
How to Make Grinch Sugar cookies
Full directions and measurements for this dish are in the printable recipe card below. These step-by-step photos and instructions are here to help you visualize how to make this recipe.
Pour the Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Mix into a mixing bowl and add softened butter and egg. Add 2 – 4 drops of food coloring. Using a hand mixer, mix cookie dough until well combined.
Press cookie dough into a ball and wrap with plastic wrap. Chill for about 1 hour. When the dough is ready, preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Add 3 drops of green food coloring to ¼ cup sugar and stir to combine. You may want to press the sugar through a mesh strainer to get a nice consistent color.
Sprinkle a bit of the flour out on your clean work surface. Place cookie dough on top of the flour. Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough about ¼ inch thick.
Use a 2 inch round cookie cutter to cut cookies out. Place cookies on a baking sheet about 3 inches apart. Sprinkle cookies with sanding sugar before baking. Bake cookies for about 7 – 8 minutes. You don’t want the edges to get brown or they won’t be as pretty. Watch the cookies carefully.
Remove the Grinch Sugar cookies from the oven and allow them to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes. Use a heart cookie cutter to cut a heart out of the center of HALF the cookies. Then, allow cookies to finish cooling on a cooling rack.
Meanwhile, add 2 – 4 drops of food coloring to 8 oz. of the cream cheese frosting. Stir to combine and mix well.
When your heart cookies have cooled, spread a layer of frosting on the bottom of one cookie (without the heart cut out). Top a heart cookie on top so that the frosting peeks through the heart shape cut out. Fill the heart with red sprinkles, pressing the sprinkles gently into the frosting.
Storage
Want to know how long you store your leftover Grinch Sugar Cookies? I’ve got good news for you! These Grinch Cookies can be stored for up to one week in an airtight container on the counter.
Tips
- If you want to make your cookie dough a darker green add in a few more drops of food coloring.
- Food coloring gel will give you a more vibrant color than liquid food coloring.
- If you don’t want to dye your own sugar for the topping, you can purchase green sanding sugar.
Substitutions and Variations
Cookie Dough: Don’t have cookie mix on hand? Make up a batch of your favorite sugar cookie dough.
Frosting: Switch up the cream cheese frosting to your favorite vanilla or buttercream frosting for a change of flavor.
Sprinkles: Don’t like sprinkles or can’t find red and pink. Turn your cream cheese frosting red instead of green for a festive look.
FAQ
Can I freeze these Grinch Sugar Cookies?
How to decorate Grinch Cookies
Do I need to chill this sugar cookie dough?
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Grinch Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 bag Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Mix
- ½ cup butter softened
- 1 egg
- 16 oz Cream Cheese Frosting
- Red Sprinkles
- ¼ cup sugar
- Green Food Coloring
- Flour for dusting surfaces
Instructions
- Pour the Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Mix into a mixing bowl and add softened butter and egg. Add 2 – 4 drops food coloring. Using a hand mixer, mix cookie dough until well combined.
- Press cookie dough into a ball and wrap with plastic wrap. Chill for about 1 hour.
- When dough is ready, preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a backing sheet with parchment paper.
- Add 3 drops of green food coloring to ¼ cup sugar and stir to combine. You may want to press the sugar through a mesh strainer to get a nice consistent color.
- Sprinkle a bit of the flour out on your clean work surface. Place cookie dough on top of flour. Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough about ¼ inch thick.
- Use a 2 inch round cookie cutter to cut cookies out. Place cookies on baking sheet about 3 inches apart. Bake cookies for about 7 – 8 minutes. You don’t want the edges to get brown or they won’t be as pretty. Watch the cookies carefully.
- Remove cookies from oven and allow them to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes. Use a heart cookie cutter to cut a heart out of the center of HALF the cookies.
- Allow cookies to finish cooling on a cooling rack.
- Meanwhile, add 2 – 4 drops of food coloring to 8 oz. of the cream cheese frosting. Stir to combine and mix well.
- When cookies have cooled, spread a layer of frosting on the bottom of one cookie (without the heart cut out). Top a heart cookie on top so that the frosting peeks through the heart shape cut out. Fill the heart with red sprinkles, pressing the sprinkles gently into the frosting.
- Store cookies in an air tight container.
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