The Christmas Holiday is always a great time for decorating. It’s the perfect time to showcase your festive spirit and cheerful personality. This can include hanging Christmas lights, decorating the tree, and baking cookies! Why just bake when you can decorate?

Christmas Cookie Decorating Kits

You can find many different types of cookie kits at your local grocery store or even online. They have snowmen, gingerbread houses, ugly sweater cookies, and even Christmas trees. They come with either the powder to mix and make them on your own or you can buy premade cookies that you just need to decorate. The icing and decorative edible candies will also be included in most of the boxes so you don’t need to shop for additional items.

Here are a few of the cookies I made one year when I was feeling pretty festive. The kit that I used included pre-made cookies so there was no need to bake them. Each was individually wrapped so you can save some for use at a later date without them being stale. You could also give them out as Christmas gifts to your guests during the holiday season and allow them to decorate their own cookies. This is great for children and adults because they are simple and easy to make since the kits include everything you need.

These are a set of ugly sweater cookies that I made that same year. These were more fun for me to make than the gingerbread sugar cookies. This kit came with a better color variety of icing and smaller edible candies. The gingerbread kit had larger round edible pearls that were pretty to look at but not so great as the tastebuds. They were kinda like mini jawbreakers.

You could eat them but they wouldn’t be safe for small children to eat. I would recommend that you take the candy pearls off before eating but still allow them to use for decorating. The ugly sweater cookies are more grown up and less “kid friendly”. Even though they could possibly decorate their own sweaters how they like. My daughter actually decorated the bottom two cookies on the left-hand side. She had fun while she was making them but eventually left me to finish the rest of them.