Easy Christmas Tree Cookies made from scratch with fondant, homemade buttercream frosting, and sprinkles! These are some of the cutest Christmas cookies you’ll find!
Dust your clean working area with all-purpose flour and roll out dough with a rolling pin so that it’s about a quarter of an inch thick.
Using your round cookie cutter, cut out twelve circles out of the cookie dough. Place each one gently on your lined baking sheet. Save any remaining cookie dough and refrigerate it to use for another time.*
Bake cookies for about 6 to 9 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. You need to cool your cookies completely on a wire rack so you can decorate them without the fondant or icing melting off.
Use the same round cookie cutter you used before to cut out twelve fondant circles.
Press one fondant circle on one fully cooled cookie. Repeat for the rest of the cookies.
Attach Wilton tip #21 to the green decorating frosting and pipe out a triangular shape in the middle of each cookie. To achieve this look, use dollops of frosting starting with the top (point) of the tree, and add dollops on the way down. This frosting tip gives you a somewhat grassy look.
Use the brown edible marker to draw in tree trunks at the bottom of each of the green frosting tree decorations.
Sprinkle with your rainbow nonpareils, which act like tiny "ornaments" for your trees! Serve and enjoy these Christmas Tree Cookies, they are simply delicious!