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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.
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“I make these every year since I found this recipe and are my kids absolute favorite Christmas cookie, it’s definitely a tradition in our home now <3” – Nikki
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:
- 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!
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
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!
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I made these this evening to take on a cookie tray to my Uncle’s nursing home. They are adorable!! I’m going to make them again for our family Christmas gathering. They’re sure to be a big hit!! They were so easy and turned out great!! I followed your directions to the “T”. Perfect!! Thank you so much for sharing!!
I am trying these next Friday for our Saturday holiday party. I do not have a stand mixer but have a whisk attachment for my hand mixer – I hope that works. I am super nervous.
What type of tip did you use for the piping bag?
What temperature should the oven be? Cooking for 2 hours seem really long… how to ensure it does not burn?
Yes, store in an air tight container. I would say don’t make them any more than two days ahead.
Can these be made a couple of days ahead of time?
Hmm, no I don’t think these would freeze well, thanks though!
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!
You can, but it will take much longer.
The are amazing! Can I make them if I dont have a stand mixer?
You’re welcome! I’ll probably try them again soon 🙂
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!
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 :/
What was bad about them I’m interested to know.
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. 🙂