These Christmas Tree Cookies are a fun and festive meringue cookie that are light as air and melt in your mouth! A super cute Christmas cookie perfect for your holiday party!
Who doesn’t love a fun Christmas Tree Cookie! Aren’t these Christmas Tree Meringues Cookies the cutest?! I think so, but I may be partial because they’re made with love.
These cookies are a super fun and delicious treat that is perfect for your holiday gatherings, or just to have at your own holiday dinner spread.
These have always been hit in our family and we make them every year because they keep being requested, so why stop when you know that they are loved?
Dusting these easy meringue cookies with powdered sugar made it look like it has snowed. Seriously though, eeek! LOL, I know, I’m a weirdo but I just can’t help it.
Some of my other favorite holiday treats include Holiday Snowball Cookies, Christmas Trail Mix and White Chocolate Peppermint Sugar Cookies.
Why this recipe works:
- With easy pantry staple ingredients, you don’t need anything weird to whip these up.
- They can be doubled for serving more people.
- They are the perfect gift giving treat to your neighbors or friends.
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These Christmas Tree Meringues are so flippin easy and delicious! I used almond extract for mine but you can substitute any flavor your love!
This recipe is adapted from Cake & Allie.
How to make Christmas Tree Cookies:
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Heat oven to 200 degrees. Place egg whites, sugar, and cream of tartar in a bowl of your stand mixer. Place bowl over boiling water on the stove. Whisk vigorously until sugar dissolved and there are no more sugar granules visible. Remove from heat and whisk in extract.
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Using the whisk attachment on stand mixer, mix on medium high until egg whites become bright white but still runny. Add in food coloring to the color you want and continue to beat to form stiff peaks.
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Place mixture into piping bag with large star tip. Pipe cookies onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper or silicone mat. Make cookies about 1 inch in width, 2 inches high and place 1 inch apart on baking sheet. Sprinkle with the multi color sprinkles.
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Cook for 2 hours. After 2 hours, turn off oven, open door slightly and let sit in oven an additional 2 hours.
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Place the star sprinkles on top with a tiny dab of frosting. Serve and enjoy!
See how easy that is! I mean it takes a little while, but the wait is totally worth it, plus getting the kids in on decorating these Christmas Tree Cookies is always fun.
How to store:
These cookies are stable at room temperature so I recommend that you place in an airtight container in a cool dry place and they should last for up to 2 weeks.
These can also be frozen. If you don’t think you will eat them right away or plan on making ahead of time store again in an airtight container, I don’t recommend a bag.
Place them in the freezer and they should last frozen for up to 3 months. You can remove and let defrost at room temperature.
Many people think Meringue cookies are daunting or hard, but they really are an easy cookie to make, and trust me you’ll want to make these.
How to pipe the Christmas Trees Meringues Cookies:
Place mixture into piping bag with large star tip. With a circular motion while squeezing the meringue out of the bag build the trees.
You want to pipe in a circle while layering the meringue up and on top of itself. Make cookies about 1 inch in width, 2 inches high and place 1 inch apart on baking sheet.
How do you know when meringues are done?
They are done when you can easily lift them off the parchment and the bottoms are dry. They should not be brown. Make sure to cook them at a low temperature for a long time.
Tools used to make these Easy Meringue Cookies:
- Wilton 402-2110 1M Open Star Piping Tip
- Gold Stars Sprinkles by Wilton
- AmazonBasics Silicone Baking Mat – 2-Pack
Tips and Tricks:
- We like to use a Wilton 1M tip (large star tip) for these as they come out looking like christmas trees, but you can also use a French Star tip as well.
- You can use any sprinkles that you like to decorate these, have fun, go nuts.
- Any frosting can be used to stick the star on the top of these if using.
- We like to dust with powdered sugar so it looks like snow has fallen on these, but that is not necessary.
- These can freeze perfectly, see my tips above.
- We like the flavor of almond extract, but you can substitute vanilla if you’d like.
- This recipe can be doubled for feeding more or holiday cookie exchanges.
If you want a fun and easy holiday cookie then you need to make a batch of these Christmas Tree Cookies, you will have so much fun!
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Christmas Tree Cookies
Ingredients
- 4 egg whites at room temp
- 1 Cup granulated sugar
- pinch cream of tartar
- 1/8 tsp almond extract
- green gel food coloring
- multi color sprinkles
- star sprinkles
- frosting of your choice
Instructions
- Heat oven to 200 degrees. Place egg whites, sugar, and cream of tartar in a bowl of your stand mixer. Place bowl over boiling water on the stove. Whisk vigorously until sugar dissolved and there are no more sugar granules visible. Remove from heat and whisk in extract.
- Using the whisk attachment on stand mixer, mix on medium high until egg whites become bright white but still runny. Add in food coloring to the color you want and continue to beat to form stiff peaks.
- Place mixture into piping bag with large star tip. Pipe cookies onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper or silicone mat. Make cookies about 1 inch in width, 2 inches high and place 1 inch apart on baking sheet. Sprinkle with the multi color sprinkles.
- Cook for 2 hours. After 2 hours, turn off oven, open door slightly and let sit in oven an additional 2 hours.
- Place the star sprinkles on top with a tiny dab of frosting. Serve and enjoy!
Comments & Reviews
Nicole says
I’m so glad you linked these up to Let’s Get Real because they are PERFECT for a cookie exchange I’m hosting in a couple days! One question- I don’t have a nice stand mixer- just a cheapo version so I don’t have a whisk attachment. Do you think it will work with just the regular beaters?
Dana DeVolk says
Yes it will still work, just have to beat the heck out of it for the stiff peaks!
Sue@CountryDesignHome says
These are adorable! I’ve been making meringue mushrooms for years, but these are so much cuter. Definitely going into the cookie swap this season!
Ashley ~ 3 Little Greenwoods says
Yes, indeed these are the cutest things ever! I bet they taste scrumptious too!
Thanks so much for sharing this post at Show Me Saturday! I can’t wait to see what you linkup this weekend!
Merry Christmas!
~ Ashley
Jennie says
Oh, I love meringue cookies! These are darling! 🙂
Giana says
Hi!! I don’t know if I’m crazy blind, but I cannot for the life of me see how much the yield is?
Dana DeVolk says
You’re not blind! I forgot to add it in. It makes 24-30 depending on size. I will update it now!
Giana says
Awesome!!! Thanks so much!! I’m excited to see how these turn out!
Jessica says
They are in the oven now! I’m no artist but I think they are adorable. I’m very excited. The only change I had to do was chill the bowl and whisk. Heating it first was not allowing a true stiff whip for me.
Can’t wait to try some of your other recipes!
Lara says
I’d love it if you’d explain the choice to basically…cook the egg whites? Why do you heat them with the sugar?! That really confused me, and I’m probably just going to use my meringue recipe and your decorating tips because of it. Super cute, however.
Dana DeVolk says
Thanks! Honestly, I have no idea why. This was my first time making meringues as I said in the post. I just followed the recipe from Cake & Allie that I linked to and put my own little twist on it. Wish I could be more help. 🙂
Dana DeVolk says
What was bad about them I’m interested to know.
Kylie says
After following all the steps my mix wasn’t holding. Like when I tried to make the trees they just fell into a big puddle of green. I cooked it anyway but they didn’t taste good, had to throw them away :/
Dana DeVolk says
Sorry to hear that, I’m thinking the mix had to be mixed a lot more to stiff peaks like I had in the picture. I really hate to hear it! But, I really appreciate the feedback!
Kylie says
You’re welcome! I’ll probably try them again soon 🙂
andrea says
The are amazing! Can I make them if I dont have a stand mixer?
Dana DeVolk says
You can, but it will take much longer.
Heather says
These look really cute! Wondering if you can freeze them? Looking for Christmas cookie ideas that I can freeze ahead of time. Thanks for sharing!
Dana DeVolk says
Hmm, no I don’t think these would freeze well, thanks though!
Sandi says
Can these be made a couple of days ahead of time?