Santa Graham Cookies

I have fond memories of baking Christmas cookies with my mom and I love doing the same thing with my own kids. Of course my children are still young and making perfect frosted cut-out cookies just isn’t going to happen. It’s good for me because it challenges the perfectionist in me, which is something I’m working on letting go of. But I do still look for easy-to-make and fun recipes to try with my kids.

This Santa Graham Cookies recipe is perfect for making Christmas Cookies with your kids.

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There’s no baking or cooking involved and it’s simple yet so much fun for kids. Kids will love decorating these Santa Graham Cookies as much as they’ll enjoy eating these tasty treats!

What You’ll Need to Make Santa Graham Cookies:

• Red food color
• 1 1/4 cup vanilla frosting (from a 16 oz can) – or you can make your own
• 12 (2.5 inch square) graham crackers
• 1 cup (about 75) mini marshmallows, cut in half
• 6 small red gumdrops, cut in half
• 24 red M&Ms or other small red candy, like red cinnamon candies

Start with a cookie sheet lined with waxed or parchment paper. (This will save on mess – always a good thing with kids!)

Add 1/4 cup of frosting to one small bowl and frost it red. Add 1/2 cup of frosting to a separate small bowl and color it light pink.

If you haven’t already had your kids helping, now is a great time to lay out the ingredients and call them into the kitchen so they can each create their own Santa Graham Cookies!

For small children, you might want to frost their Santa Graham Cookies first, then let them decorate.

Tip: Give each child his or her own cookie sheet covered with parchment or waxed paper. This will be their own little cookie decorating station and cut down on messes and fighting!

How to Put Your Santa Graham Cookies Together:

Frost one corner of each graham cracker with red frosting. This will be Santa’s hat.

Add a marshmallow to the top of Santa’s hats for a little pompom.

Frost the rest of the graham cracker with the light pink frosting, trying not to mix the colors with the hat.

Now comes the really fun part – decorating the Santa Graham cookies!

You and your kids can decorate your Santas however you want – let your children experiment with different varieties too. They’ll love it!

The basic idea here is to use a 1/2 gumdrop for Santa’s nose, 2 M&Ms for his eyes, and marshmallows for Santa’s beard.

My kids all loved making their own Santa Graham Cookies and I enjoyed watching them each do their own thing.

Even my 2-year-old Joshua was able to help and decorated his own two cookies.

I hope you and your children enjoy making Santa Graham cookies as much as we did!

Santa Graham Cookies

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With no baking or cooking required, Santa Graham Cookies are a perfect easy Christmas cookie recipe for kids to make.

• Author: Erika Bragdon
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 10 mins
• Yield: 12 1x

Ingredients

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• Red food color
• 1 1/4 cup vanilla frosting (from a 16 oz can) – or you can make your own
• 12 (2.5 inch square) graham crackers
• 1 cup (about 75) mini marshmallows, cut in half
• 6 small red gumdrops, cut in half
• 24 red M&Ms or other small red candy, like red cinnamon candies

Instructions

1. Add 1/4 cup of frosting to one small bowl and frost it red. Add 1/2 cup of frosting to a separate small bowl and color it light pink.
2. Frost one corner of each graham cracker with red frosting. This will be Santa’s hat. Frost the rest of the graham cracker with the light pink frosting, trying not to mix the colors with the hat.
3. Decorate using a marshmallow as a pom pom for the hat, 1/2 gumdrop for Santa’s nose, 2 M&Ms for the eyes, and marshmallows for his beard.