Stacked Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies Recipe
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 20 cookie trees
 
A beautiful arrangement of Stacked Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies, layered with vanilla buttercream frosting, perfect for festive celebrations.
Ingredients
For the Cookies:
  • 1 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 cup granulated white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract
  • 1 egg, (large)
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
For the Vanilla Buttercream:
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Pinch of salt
  • Green gel icing color
  • Christmas sprinkles, optional
Instructions
To make Cookies:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 °F with a rack in the center. Whisk together flour with baking powder and salt in a small bowl and set aside.
  2. Using a stand-up or handheld mixer, beat the butter together with sugar.
  3. Add vanilla, almond extract and egg to the mixture and beat to combine.
  4. Add flour in 3 parts until fully incorporated.
  5. Divide the dough into two equal parts. On a lightly floured surface, roll into ¼-inch thickness. Use a cookie cutter to cut out three size of cookies
  6. Bake cookies on a parchment or silicone-lined baking sheet at 350˚F for 7-8 minutes, or until the edges are just beginning to turn golden.
  7. Let the cookies cool for about 5 minutes on the baking sheet before moving them to a wire rack to cool completely.
To make buttercream frosting:
  1. Beat the butter until smooth then add powdered sugar and mix until smooth.
  2. Add the vanilla extract and 2 tablespoons of water and mix until smooth.
  3. Add green gel icing color to the frosting and mix until you have your desired shade of green.
To Assemble the Stacked Christmas Tree:
  1. Fit a piping bag with a medium sized star piping tip and fill the bag with the green frosting.
  2. You’ll need one of each of the three sizes of cookie, to put the cookies together
  3. Pipe a swirl of frosting onto the largest cookie, then add the second medium sized cookie on top. Pipe a swirl of frosting onto the second cookie, then top with the third and smallest cookie. Pipe a swirl on top of the final cookie and decorate with sprinkles
Recipe by Yummiest Food Recipes at https://yummiestfood.com/stacked-christmas-tree-sugar-cookies/