Easy Christmas Treats to Make With Kids

Use our sugar cookie recipe or bake up a mix. Either way, the fun is in the decorating.

What You'll Need: Butter, granulated sugar, an egg, vanilla extract, all-purpose flour, powdered sugar, milk, food coloring, sweetened coconut, assorted sprinkles and sugars for decorating.

'Tis the season to try a no-bake treat! Set out frosting, ice cream cokes, and sprinkles and let your little elves work their magic.

What You'll Need: Vanilla frosting or recipe for Cozy Cookie Glaze, sugar ice cream cones, sprinkles, sugars, and/or sweetened flaked coconut for decorating.

Cheers! Everyone knows that the marshmallows are the best part of the cocoa.

What You'll Need: Mini candy canes, marshmallows, semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Even the youngest kids will love dipping and decorating these easy cookies.

What You'll Need: Recipe for Cozy Cookie Dough, recipe Cozy Cookie Glaze and/or semisweet-chocolate chips, sweetened coconut Nuts, sprinkles, and/or sugars for decorating.

These no-fuss candies make charming gifts for grandparents, neighbors, or teachers.

What You'll Need: Mini candy canes, semi-sweet chocolate chips, colored sugars, sprinkles, or nonpareils.

A bite of brownie is all cozied up in a no-bake, graham cracker cottage small enough to perch on a lollipop stick.

Tart fruit blended with cinnamon and sugar forms a flavorful filling for these palm-size treats. Serve them as is or give them the full-size pie treatment: topped with a dollop of whipped cream.

Chocolaty sugar cookies presented in our appealing package make a clever favor for any holiday party. If you don't have cookie cutters to shape them, a spice jar and its lid will do the trick.

Celebrate the season two ways using this easy technique for dressing up a batch of brownies. Cut a pan of your favorite browniesinto triangles or dreidel shapes. Spread the dreidels and trees with colored frosting, then use white hard-drying icing (Try our Vanilla Decorating Icing, below) to embellish them as shown. Finish the trees with a candy cane sticktrunk and the dreidels with a pretzel stick handle.

Keep little hands busy making treats inspired by a Christmas decorating mishap. Doughnut holes are drizzled with candy and dotted with chocolate-covered sunflower seeds.

Use our sturdy, versatile dough to fashion tasty bundles in a range of sizes with a multitude of trims. Fix up a plate for Santa (or your family), and you'll find only crumbs left behind.