Christmas sugar cookies with a twist!

Stacked Christmas sugar cookies in marbled red and green

These raspberry and matcha sugar cookies are just what the standard Christmas cookie needed. The raspberry adds a freshness to the cookies that you normally merely don't get from a sugar cookie and the matcha cookie is subtle and delicious.

Oh, and did I mention they're also marbled?

Click through for the Christmas sugar cookie recipe details AND be sure to scroll downwardly to the bottom for more holiday recipes like this one. I teamed up with some of my blogging buds for a virtual cookie exchange and everyone has a different Christmas cookie recipe to share.

Christmas Sugar Cookies (with a Twist): Raspberry and Matcha Sugar Cookies Recipe

Ingredients for Marbled Raspberry and Matcha Sugar Cookies

I used the recipe from the iced sugar cookies I made a while back, simply I had to readjust some of the measurements for the dissimilar dough. Here's everything you'll need:

  • ii sticks of softened unsalted butter
  • 2 cups of sugar
  • ii eggs
  • 2 1/3 cups of flour
  • ane tsp of vanilla
  • 1 – 1.2oz freeze stale raspberry packet (I got mine at Trader Joe's)
  • 1/4 loving cup of matcha mix (I used the Matcha Dark-green Tea Latte Mix from Trader Joe's)
  • 1 parcel of white chocolate chips

How to Brand Sugar Cookie Dough

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. You lot'll need:

  • 1 stick of butter
  • 1 cup of sugar
  • ane egg
  • 1 1/3 cup of flour
  • 1/2 tsp of vanilla

In a mixer, cream the butter and carbohydrate together until combined. Next add in the egg and vanilla and mix until combined.

Finally, slowly fold in the flour and mix until everything is combined.

Roll the cookie dough into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and allow it to chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. Or you lot tin can freeze it and utilize at a later engagement.

Rolling out sugar cookie dough for Christmas cookies (with freeze dried raspberries)

How to Make the Raspberry Saccharide Cookie Dough

Y'all'll demand:

  • 1/two of a stick of butter
  • i/two cup of sugar
  • ane/2 of an egg
  • 1/4 tsp of vanilla
  • 2/3 loving cup of flour
  • 1 oz freeze dried raspberry bundle (I got mine at Trader Joe's)

Using a food processor or a grinder, grind up the freeze dried raspberries to powder grade. Set aside.

In a mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until combined. Side by side add in the egg and vanilla and mix until combined.

Finally, slowly fold in the flour and 1/4 loving cup of the raspberry powder and mix until everything is combined.

Curlicue the cookie dough into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and permit it to chill in the fridge for at to the lowest degree 30 minutes. Or y'all tin can freeze it and employ at a later date.

Rolling out matcha sugar cookie dough for Christmas

How to Make Matcha Carbohydrate Cookie Dough

Y'all'll need:

  • one/2 of a stick of butter
  • one/two cup of saccharide
  • i/two of an egg
  • ane/4 tsp of vanilla
  • 2/3 cup of flour
  • 1/4 cup of matcha powder (I used the Matcha Greenish Tea Latte Mix from Trader Joe's)

In a mixer, foam the butter and sugar together until combined. Next add in the egg and vanilla and mix until combined.

Finally, slowly fold in the flour and matcha pulverization and mix until everything is combined.

Curlicue the cookie dough into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and let it to chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. Or you can freeze it and use at a after appointment.

Technique for mixing dough to get marbled sugar cookies

How to Marble Cookie Dough

One time your dough has chilled, permit it set out at room temperature for 5-10 minutes, so that you tin can easily work with it.

Dissever the plain carbohydrate cookie dough in half. Working with one color at a time, suspension a office the white dough and one of the colored balls of dough into random pieces and advisedly kneed together. Be careful not to over kneed or you lot'll lose the marbling issue.

Whorl your marbled dough to a ane/4″ thickness and cut with any desired cookie cutter shape. I wanted circles so I just used a water glass.

Set your cut cookies aside and echo with the other colored dough.

Bake for 12 – fifteen min. Once baked thoroughly, remove and absurd on parchment paper or a wire cooling rack.

Dipping marbled sugar cookies into bowl of melted white chocolate

How to Melt White Chocolate and Dip Sugar Cookies

Empty the white chocolate chips into a modest but deep microwave prophylactic basin (at least 3 in deep). Set up your microwave to 50% rut and heat the chips in 30 second increments. After thirty seconds, have out and stir.

Once the fries are mostly melted (it took about 3 of times of taking out and stirring for me), stir and allow the remaining solid chocolate melt with the residual heat.

Cover a cookie canvass or a cutting lath with parchment paper. You lot'll use this to place your chocolate dipped cookies. Make sure its small enough to go into your refrigerator or that you lot've cleared off some shelf infinite for it.

After the cookies accept cooled completely, beginning dipping them halfway into the bowl. Place the dipped cookies on the parchment covered cookie sail or cutting lath. Once all the cookies have been dipped, transfer them to the fridge to allow them to cool and harden. Later on x minutes or so, you tin can remove the cookies and get to eating!

Stacked homemade sugar cookies in red and green (without using food coloring)

Holding Christmas sugar cookies in hand

Christmas Saccharide Cookies: Marbled Raspberry and Matcha Sugar Cookies Recipe

These raspberry and matcha sugar cookies are but what the standard Christmas cookie needed. The raspberry adds a freshness to the cookies that you lot unremarkably merely don't get from a sugar cookie and the matcha cookie is subtle and delicious.

Servings: 36 cookies

Calories: 195 kcal

  • ii sticks of softened unsalted butter 2 sticks = xvi tbsp
  • 2 cups carbohydrate
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 1/3 cups flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • ane oz package of freeze dried raspberry I got mine at Trader Joe's
  • 1/4 cup matcha powder I used the Matcha Green Tea Latte Mix from Trader Joe's
  • 16 oz white chocolate chips

How to Make Sugar Cookie Dough

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. You'll need: ane stick of butter, 1 cup of sugar, i egg, ane i/3 cup of flour, one/two tsp of vanilla.

  • In a mixer, cream the butter and carbohydrate together until combined. Next add in the egg and vanilla and mix until combined.

  • Finally, slowly fold in the flour and mix until everything is combined.

  • Roll the cookie dough into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and let information technology to chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. Or you can freeze it and use at a later date.

How to Make the Raspberry Sugar Cookie Dough

  • You'll need: 1/ii of a stick of butter, 1/2 loving cup of sugar, 1/2 of an egg, i/iv tsp of vanilla, 2/iii cup of flour, one oz freeze dried raspberry bundle (I got mine at Trader Joe's)

  • Using a food processor or a grinder, grind upwards the freeze stale raspberries to powder form. Set bated.

  • In a mixer, cream the butter and carbohydrate together until combined. Side by side add together in the egg and vanilla and mix until combined.

  • Finally, slowly fold in the flour and 1/four loving cup of the raspberry pulverization and mix until everything is combined.

  • Curl the cookie dough into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and allow it to chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. Or yous can freeze it and use at a later engagement.

How to Make Matcha Sugar Cookie Dough

  • You'll demand: 1/2 of a stick of butter, 1/two cup of saccharide, 1/2 of an egg, 1/4 tsp of vanilla, ii/three cup of flour, 1/4 cup of matcha powder (I used the Matcha Greenish Tea Latte Mix from Trader Joe's)

  • In a mixer, cream the butter and sugar together until combined. Adjacent add in the egg and vanilla and mix until combined.

  • Finally, slowly fold in the flour and matcha pulverisation and mix until everything is combined.

  • Roll the cookie dough into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and allow it to chill in the refrigerator for at to the lowest degree 30 minutes. Or you can freeze it and use at a later date.

How to Marble Cookie Dough

  • Once your dough has chilled, permit it set out at room temperature for 5-x minutes, so that you can easily work with it.

  • Divide the plain carbohydrate cookie dough in half. Working with ane color at a time, break a part the white dough and ane of the colored assurance of dough into random pieces and carefully kneed together. Be conscientious not to over kneed or you'll lose the marbling result.

  • Scroll your marbled dough to a 1/four" thickness and cut with any desired cookie cutter shape. I wanted circles so I merely used a water glass.

  • Set your cut cookies bated and repeat with the other colored dough.

  • Bake for 12 - 15 min. Once broiled thoroughly, remove and cool on parchment paper or a wire cooling rack.

How to Melt White Chocolate and Dip Saccharide Cookies

  • Empty the white chocolate chips into a small-scale but deep microwave safe bowl (at least 3 in deep). Fix your microwave to fifty% rut and heat the chips in 30 second increments. Later on xxx seconds, take out and stir.

  • In one case the fries are mostly melted (it took about 3 of times of taking out and stirring for me), stir and allow the remaining solid chocolate melt with the rest oestrus.

  • Encompass a cookie canvas or a cutting lath with parchment paper. You'll apply this to place your chocolate dipped cookies. Brand sure its minor plenty to go into your fridge or that you've cleared off some shelf space for it.

  • After the cookies have cooled completely, start dipping them halfway into the bowl. Identify the dipped cookies on the parchment covered cookie sheet or cutting lath. Once all the cookies have been dipped, transfer them to the fridge to allow them to cool and harden. After 10 minutes or so, you can remove the cookies and go to eating!

Serving: 36 cookies | Calories: 195 kcal | Carbohydrates: 25 grand | Protein: iii k | Fat: 9 g | Saturated Fatty: 6 thousand | Cholesterol: 25 mg | Sodium: xvi mg | Potassium: 51 mg | Fiber: 1 chiliad | Carbohydrate: xix grand | Vitamin A: 257 IU | Vitamin C: 1 mg | Calcium: 29 mg | Iron: ane mg

Recipe past Casey Harper for Paper and Stitch

Ready for more Christmas cookie recipes? Be sure to pop over to the other blogs participating in this year'southward cookie substitution:

Rudolph Nose Dough Balls from Julie Blanner
Chai Spice Saccharide Cookies with Vanilla Edible bean Drizzle from Lovely Indeed
Reindeer Truffle Cookies from Pizzazzerie
Peppermint Kiss Cookies from Inspired past Charm
Hot Chocolate Marshmallow Linzer Cookies from Freutcake
Boho Rainbow Gingerbread Cookies from Proper
Chocolate Ruby Chunk Cookies from Sugar and Charm

What kind of cookies do you bake for the holidays? Run into any of this list that you lot think yous'll endeavour this year?