Bake adorable Santa Hat Cookies with this easy Peppermint Sugar Cookies recipe! Simple, delicious, and festive Christmas cookies for your holiday baking.
Peppermint Santa Hat Cookies
These cute Santa Hat Peppermint Sugar Cookies not only look great, but taste delicious! This is an easy homemade cookie recipe that’s perfect for Christmas.
At the time of writing this recipe, we are frozen here in Dallas. Literally the ice has been so bad that we haven’t been able to get out of our driveway! If you follow me on Instagram, you have seen the icy fun we have been having. Besides sledding down the driveway, we have had lots of time to bake Christmas cookies and taste test the best recipes for Santa.
One of my favorite holiday candies are Candy Cane Hershey Kisses. I normally don’t like candy canes, but I can’t stop eating this candy. I always think they look like little Santa hats, so we made some cookies that did just that!
You can see what I’ve been doing while iced in the house. It’s a hard job to taste test Christmas cookies, but someone has to do it!
Why These Santa Hat Cookies Will Be a Holiday Hit
Incredibly Soft and Chewy: These easy peppermint sugar cookies have a soft baked texture that keeps everyone reaching back for just one more.
Super Cute and Festive: With their adorable Santa hat design, they instantly steal the show on any holiday dessert table, cookie exchange tray, or Christmas party spread. They look like you spent hours decorating, but they’re surprisingly simple!
Perfect for Kids: Not only are they sweet and fun for little hands to eat, but they are also an absolute blast to make together. Kids love helping with the decorating, making it a wonderful holiday kitchen tradition.
We think Santa will really enjoy these soft chewy cookies, don’t you?
Easy Peppermint Sugar Cookie Recipe – Let’s Bake!
Whether you serve them to Santa, take to a cookie exchange or pack up for sweet gifts, these yummy Peppermint Sugar Cookies are sure to please anyone. We really loved this cookie recipe. I hope you enjoy it too!
Peppermint Santa Hat Christmas Cookies
Ingredients
Peppermint Sugar Cookies
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup salted butter
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp peppermint extract
- 30 Candy Cane Hershey Kiss Candies Crushed
Santa Hat Cookie Topping
- 40 Unwrapped Candy Cane Hershey Kiss Candies (You'll need 2 bags of candy total)
- 2 (7 oz tubs) Jet-Puffed Marshmallow Creme
- 1 Tube White Cookie Icing
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Combine flour, baking soda, and baking powder in a bowl. Set aside.
- In another bowl, combine softened butter and sugar, mix until smooth and creamy.
- Mix in the egg, vanilla and peppermint.
- Mix in the dry ingredients.
- Mix in the crushed candy.
- Roll dough into small balls and place onto a cookie sheet.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden.
- Remove from oven and wait a few minutes to move cookies to a wire rack to cool.
- When cookies have cooled, add a small spoonful of marshmallow creme to the top of each cookie.
- Gently press a Hershey Kiss Candy onto the marshmallow creme in the middle of each cookie. Remove and try again if placement is not correct. The creme will smooth out on it’s own after a few seconds.
- Pipe a small ball of white icing to the top of the candy to create a Santa hat.
- Keep cookies flat for 30 minutes or until marshmallow creme does not spread. Move to serving plate.
Notes
Nutrition
How to Store Santa Hat Cookies
Because of the marshmallow topping, these fun cookies are best enjoyed within 3 to 4 days. Keep them soft and fresh with a few simple storage tricks:
- Use an airtight container: A sealed container or cookie tin is key to keeping your sugar cookies soft and protecting the marshmallows.
- Layer with parchment paper: Marshmallows can get sticky! Always place a sheet of parchment paper or wax paper between layers so your cookies don’t stick together.
- Keep at room temperature: Store your container in a cool, dry spot. Skip the fridge, as the cold air will dry out the cookies and change the texture of the marshmallows.
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so pretty!
Made these last night for school – delicious!
Amy~ We’ve been frozen here too, but don’t have cute cookies to show for it 😉 Thanks for sharing these…adorable!
Oh, think of the fun we would have if we lived closer:-)
Yay! They are so easy, just keep them upright so the marshmallow doesn’t run over.
Adorable!! They would be perfect for my cookie exchange. I wish you lived closer Amy so you could come! I pinned them 🙂
I’m going to try these this weekend!
How cute! Love the Santa hats 🙂
I have a cookie exchange at week's end and I have the candy and other ingredients. I know what I am bringing!
These would be cute for my kids school bake sale!
I love these! What a cute way to use those kisses.
They look great! Will make for Christmas!
These are just darling, Amy!!