These Sugar Leaf Cookies are perfect to bake during Fall or Thanksgiving. All you need are 5 ingredients to make these easy and delicious Sugar Leaf cookie recipe! 
Have you ever tried coloring rolled sugar cookies? The first time I tried was three days ago and I found it to be interesting. Personally, I don’t like getting my hands dirty when I bake, but I thought it was be so cute to make leaf sugar cookies for fall!
I took out my new gel food colorings and squirted some onto a chunk of refrigerated cookie dough and started kneading the cookie. It was so hard, keep in mind that I love baking, but I’m learning as I go, so I wasn’t sure if I was doing it right. Eventually the dough turned into the color I was trying to get, but when it was time to roll out the dough, I didn’t do a very good job and the cookie actually reminded me of the cereal fruity pebbles. (Do you guys remember that cereal?)
Anyway, below is my first batch of cookies.
I love the color of the dough before it was placed into the oven, 2nd attempt. After it was baked in the oven – 2nd attempt.
Tips and Tricks for Making This Sugar Leaf Cookies Recipe:
- Use paste food coloring like what I did for brighter colored cookies. The paste food coloring also is easier to handle when mixing into the dough.
- Before rolling out the dough in the wooden board, make sure to sprinkle all-purpose flour or flour cornstarch to prevent the dough from sticking into the wood board.
- Decorating sugar leaf cookies is fun! You can drizzle edible glitters on top of each sugar leaf cookie for a more festive vibe.
- Use maple leaf cookie cutter to achieve the Fall and Thanksgiving theme in your cookies.
How to Make this Sugar Leaf Cookies Recipe:
These are the ingredients you will need:
- Refrigerated cookie dough
- powdered sugar
- red coloring
- orange coloring
- yellow coloring
Before coloring the dough for the Sugar Leaf Cookies, don’t forget to preheat oven to 350 F.
Divide cookies into 3 equal parts and color the dough:
I used these Americolor food colors for this Sugar leaf Cookies:
Here they are! Ready to become edible and delicious Sugar Leaf Cookies! After coloring dough, secure with saran wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes:
Put each color side by side in order to form a bigger dough. Flatten the dough with a rolling pin and cut the dough with cookie cutters:
Use your imagination in combining the colors of the Sugar leaf Cookies:
You can find many designs of leaf cookie cutters in baking supply shops and even in grocery shops. These are what I used:
Press onto the cookie dough and make as many Sugar Leaf cookies as you can with the colorful dough:
These cute and colorful Sugar leaf Cookies are ready to be baked!
After 8 minutes, check if the cookies are done and if so, take out from the oven and cool them completely in a cooling rack:
These Sugar leaf Cookies are not just pretty but they are delicious! They are perfect to bake during the Fall season like when you are having a Fall theme party.
Frequently Asked Questions for the Sugar Leaf Cookies Recipe:
Q: Can you freeze these cookies after baking?
A: Yes for sure. Thaw properly at room temperature before serving it for at least an hour.
Q: How can I decorate Sugar leaf cookies?
A: You can make sugar glazes and drizzle on top of each cookie and sprinkle with edible glitters.
Q: How can I keep these cookies fresh for a longer time?
A: After cooling them completely, store in an airtight container and keep away from moist areas.
More fun cookie recipes you can try:
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- SunButter Cookies 5 Ingredients ONLY Nut & Dairy free
- DAIRY FREE Snickerdoodle Cookies
- Snickerdoodle Apple Cookies
- Brownie Meringue Cookies | 5 Ingredients ONLY
- Oreo Cheesecake Cookies
Sugar Leaf Cookies
Ingredients
- Refrigerated cookie dough
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- red coloring
- orange coloring
- yellow coloring
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F
- Divide cookies into 3 equal parts and color the dough
- After coloring dough, saran wrap it and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Divide each dough colors into 1 cm balls and then roll into one large ball.
- Flatten the dough with a rolling pin and cut the dough with cookie cutters
- Bake for 5-8 minutes.
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Great recipe! Keep it up!