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These colorful Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies are a unique take on a traditional Sugar Cookie and the technique can be used in any color combination you can dream up!

Closeup on three Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies laying on a flat white surface.

Sugar Cookies are our favorite Holiday cookies.  Frosted … plain … it doesn’t matter how you serve them, we will gobble them up.  The marbling technique in this recipe is one fun way to dress up our super yummy Best Sugar Cookie recipe for Christmas that we very much endorse.  These Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies are so striking and festive in red, green, and white. It is a Christmas Cookie win/win situation.

Closeup on a white bowl filled with Sugar Cookie Dough.

Step 1: The first step in making Marble Sugar Cookies is to make up a batch of our Best Sugar Cookie recipe dough. This dough makes the best sugar cookies we have ever eaten and the cookies really keep the shape of the cookie-cutter during the baking process.  We can’t recommend this recipe enough and you’ll find the recipe here!

Three white bowls filled with Red, Green and White Sugar Cookie dough.

Step 2: Split the sugar cookie dough into three equal portions using a food scale. Leave one-third of the cookie dough white.  And color the other two, red and green.  We use Wilton Color Right Food Coloring, it gives food a bright intense color without having to use a ton of food coloring.  To get these pretty shades of red and green, we used the following formulas:

Red: 3 drops of Crimson and 3 drops of Red
Green:  3 drops of Yellow and 2 drops of Blue

How to Create the Marble Cookies

White serving platter covered with rows of Sugar Cookie Dough balls in green, red and white.

Step 3: To get the pretty marble effect on the cookies, roll 12 small balls of cookie dough in each of the three colors.  Each ball should be about the size of a large walnut.

Collage image showing how to roll out the sugar cookie dough so you have a marble pattern when you cut out the cookies.

Step 4: Take the green dough balls and arrange them on the rolling surface.   Then randomly add in the white dough balls.  Finally, add in the red dough balls.  Use your hands to press together the dough balls into a circle as shown in the picture above.
Step 5: Use your rolling pin to roll out the dough until it is about 1/4″ – 1/3″ thick (depending on how thick you want your Marble Sugar Cookie to be.)

Overhead shot of the marble sugar cookie dough rolled out on a flat surface next to a rolling pin and Christmas cookie cutters.

Step 6: Now arrange your cookies cutters on the rolled-out dough so that the cut-out cookie will have all three colors on the dough in the shape.

Baking Instructions

Collage image showing the Marble Sugar Cookies before they go in the oven and after they come out of the oven.

Step 7:  You can see how pretty and varied the marble pattern turns out on the cut-out cookies. If you want, you can add some Sugar Sprinkles onto the cookies before you bake them.
Step 8: Bake them in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for 7-10 minutes (depending on how big the cookies are).  Do not overbake.  You don’t want them to brown.

Closeup on a batch of Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies laying on a white surface.

Step-by-Step Video Tutorial

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Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies

Yield 36 large cookies
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes

These colorful Christmas Marble Sugar Cookies are a unique take on a traditional Sugar Cookie and the technique can be used in color combination you can dream up!

Ingredients

  • 1 batch of our Best Sugar Cookie dough
  • Wilton Color Right Food Coloring - Red, Crimson, Yellow, Blue
  • [White Sparkling Sugar Sprinkles]
  • [Christmas Cookie Cutters]

Instructions

  1. The first step in making Marble Sugar Cookies is to make up a batch of our Best Sugar Cookie recipe dough.   This dough makes the best sugar cookies we have ever eaten and the cookies really keep the shape of the cookie-cutter during the baking process.  We can't recommend this recipe enough and you'll find the recipe here!
  2. Split the sugar cookie dough into three equal portions using a food scale. Leave one-third of the cookie dough white.  And color the other two, red and green.  We use Wilton Color Right Food Coloring, it gives food a bright intense color without having to use a ton of food coloring.  To get these pretty shades of red and green, we used the following formulas: Red: 3 drops of Crimson and 3 drops of Red Green:  3 drops of Yellow and 2 drops of Blue
  3. To get the pretty marble effect on the cookies, roll 12 small balls of cookie dough in each of the three colors.  Each ball should be about the size of a large walnut.
  4. Take the green dough balls and arrange them on the rolling surface.   Then randomly add in the white dough balls.  Finally, add in the red dough balls.  Use your hands to press together the dough balls into a circle as shown in the picture above.
  5. Use your rolling pin to roll out the dough until it is about 1/4″ – 1/3″ thick (depending on how thick you want your Marble Sugar Cookie to be.)Step 6 Now arrange your cookies cutters on the rolled-out dough so that the cut-out cookie will have all three colors on dough in the shape.
  6. You can see how pretty and varied the marble pattern turns out on the cut-out cookies. If you want, you can add some Sugar Sprinkles onto the raw dough.
  7. Bake them in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for 7-10 minutes (depending on how big the cookies are).  Do not overbake.  You don’t want them to brown.
  8. Allow the cookies to cool before storing them.

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Cuisine: American / Category: Cookies