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Santa Graham Cookies

By Erika in Christmas

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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

gram crackers with candy and frosting in the background

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.

red and pink frosting and mini marshmallows

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.

square gram crackers with red frosting on it

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

square gram crackers with red frosting on it and a marshmallow

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.

square gram crackers with frosting and candy on it

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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.

a little boy making the Santa gram crackers

a little girl who is making Santa gram crackersa little boy making Santa gram crackers

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

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Santa Graham Cookies

With no baking involved, Santa Graham Cookies are a perfect easy Christmas cookie recipe for kids to make. They’ll love decorating their cookies as much as they will eating them!
Print Recipe

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

Scale
  • 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.

 santa graham cookies

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    Filed Under: Christmas, Desserts, Food for Kids, Recipes, Seasonal Tagged With: Christmas Cookies, Christmas recipes, no-bakePublished on December 15, 2011

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    About Erika

    Erika Bragdon is a second-generation homeschooling mom with 3 kids at home and 1 in college. She lives in the beautiful hills of New Hampshire on a small farm and loves writing, baking, nature, and sharing flower essences and more natural solutions with moms.

    Comments

    1. JDaniel4's Mom says

      December 15, 2011 at 5:39 pm

      These are so cute! I stumbled and pinned them.

      Reply
      • Erika says

        December 15, 2011 at 9:19 pm

        Thanks!

        Reply
    2. Danielle S says

      December 16, 2011 at 11:55 pm

      These are just too easy and too cute. Great project to do with the kids. Hopefully they will last more than one hour.

      Reply
      • Erika says

        December 17, 2011 at 8:29 am

        Yes, that’s the only issue! lol

        Reply
    3. Ruth Hill says

      December 18, 2011 at 4:40 pm

      These are so cute! I might even make these this week. I pinned them!

      Reply
      • Erika says

        December 18, 2011 at 7:26 pm

        Have fun! And thanks! 🙂

        Reply
    4. Sue Hull says

      December 13, 2012 at 2:23 am

      These are just to cute! You’re so smart! I’d never think of something like this. I can tell you’re a great baker and cook. I go through your recipes and drool. LOL!! I’m not a baker and I don’t really like to cook either. It’s a good thing I’m single or my husband would starve. Lol! I can cook easy things but it’s just me so I eat easy food. I thank God daily for my microwave. 🙂
      Thank you so much for sharing all your awesome recipes! 🙂 I better after I pin this there’s going to be tons of repins 🙂

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