Frosted Oatmeal Christmas Cookies

Frosted Oatmeal Christmas Cookies

Looking for the best frosted oatmeal Christmas cookies? This family recipe makes soft, old-fashioned oatmeal cut-out cookies topped with creamy buttercream frosting and decorated with festive colors and holiday designs.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Recipe Type Christmas, Cookies, Holiday Baking, Kid-Friendly

Skill Level Easy

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 7

Total Time 37

Servings Servings

Calories 246kcal

Author Angela G.

Equipment

Ingredients

¾ cup butter
¾ cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoon milk
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup oatmeal
2 ½ cups flour

BUTTERCREAM FROSTING

⅓ cup butter
4 ½ cups powdered sugar
¼ cup milk
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
food coloring

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Make the cookie dough. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter with sugar and egg. Add vanilla and milk.
Slowly mix in salt, baking soda, oatmeal and flour until dough forms.
Roll out dough. Take a large chunk of dough and place on a floured surface. Roll out to about ½" thick.
Cut out shapes. Press cookie cutters into dough to create shapes. Using a thin spatula, lift the shapes and place onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
You can put them close together, they don't expand much at all.
Bake at 350˚F for 7-8 minutes (they should not brown at all).
Remove cookies from pan with thin spatula and move to a wire rack to cool.
Make the frosting. Cream together ingredients for frosting and put about ⅛-cups of frosting into separate bowls.
Add food coloring to achieve desired colors.
Frost cookies using a flat knife, small spatula or piping bag with special tips, frost the cookies.
Decorate cookies. Before frosting hardens, decorate cookies with mini chocolate chips, sprinkles, candy cane crunch or anything else that looks and tastes lovely!

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Notes

Let cookies cool before icing to prevent frosting from melting.
Allow time for frosting to dry and harden before moving them to a storage container.

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