Christmas Unicorn Cookies

I’ll be honest, these Christmas Unicorn Cookies are definitely high on the list of the best Christmas cookie recipes because they’re soft, fun and just a little magical.

Plus, they’re super easy to make. I know they look crazy hard, but they’re really simple and I think they’re well worth the few minutes you spend icing them. These red and green unicorns are sure to be a hit!

What You Need to Make Christmas Unicorn Cookies

• Cookies
  • 1 cup coconut oil, room temperature
  • 1 cup aquafaba, about 1/2 cup or 2 eggs (I ran out of eggs so I used bean juice)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 tspn vanilla extract, clear
  • 2 tspn baking powder
  • 3 cups flour

• Icing
  • 6 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/2 cup aquafaba (or 2 egg whites)
  • 1/2 tspn vanilla extract
  • Red gel food coloring
  • Green gel food coloring
  • Black Edible Marker
  • Gold Edible Glitter
  • 1/16 teaspoon vanilla extract to mix with edible glitter
  • Star Sprinkles

LOLet me show you just how easy these are to make for the holiday season. They will quickly become your favorite Christmas cookie.

How to Make Christmas Unicorn Cookies

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Cream sugar and coconut oil then add aquafaba (or eggs–again, I was just out of them) and vanilla extract, combining well. Set aside.

Sift together the flour and baking powder in another bowl.

Combine dry ingredients with the wet ingredients in 1/3 increments, stirring between each increment.

The cookie dough will be crumbly, but that is how it’s supposed to be.

Turn the dough out onto a sheet of parchment paper and roll it out to about 1/4-inch thick.

With a unicorn silhouette cookie cutter shape, cut out your cookies.

Remove the excess cookie dough from around the cookies.

Do not move the cookies individually, transfer the whole parchment paper sheet to the cookie sheet.Bake the cookies in the oven for 10 minutes.

Transfer the parchment paper to a rack, allowing the cookies to cool completely.

To make the icing, combine all of the ingredients, beating until smooth.

Set aside about 1/6 of the icing in a small bowl and set aside about 1/6 of the icing in another bowl.

With the larger portion of icing, do not color it.

This will be the primary color for the unicorn.

With one of the small bowls of icing, add 6 drops of red food coloring and stir. Place in an airtight container.With a second smaller bowl of icing, add 6 drops of green food coloring and stir.

Place in an airtight container.

Scoop the white (uncolored) icing in a piping bag with your smallest round decorating tip.Pipe an edge line all the way around the outer edge of each cookie. Immediately fill in the body of the unicorn, covering the whole area.

Allow this layer of icing to dry for 2-3 hours.

Combine the vanilla and gold edible glitter and then paint the horns gold and allow that to dry.

With the red icing, pipe an outline of 3-4 strands of hair on the back of the unicorn’s neck. Immediately fill this in completely.

Allow this layer of icing to crust over, about 30 minutes.

With the green icing, pipe an outline of 3-4 strands of hair on the back of the unicorn’s neck. Immediately fill this in completely.

Allow this layer of icing to crust over, about 30 minutes.Place a star sprinkle on the mane, using a dab of icing to affix it in place.

With the black edible marker, draw in a closed eye and a smile–and a dot for a nostril.

Enjoy! These will melt in your mouth! Promise!

Before you take off and start baking, though, let’s talk about some frequent questions I get about Christmas cookies.

what type of cookie sheet is best for baking cookies?

Honestly, there are so many out there that have pros and cons, it would be epically difficult to explain each and give you a solid answer. But what I CAN say without doing a month of research, is that plain, non-stick baking sheets are the best staple for a baker.

The air-bake sheets are ok, but they warp and things can roll off the sides, the tiny baking sheets are cool, but you can never fit enough cookies on them, and the big giant cookie sheets are, well, giant.

So, just a plain-jane non-stick baking sheet gets my vote.

do you need to grease cookie sheet for sugar cookies?

No. Please, for the love of all that is cookie, do not grease the cookie sheet. Use parchment paper. The cookies will not stick to the parchment paper.

If you grease the cookie sheet or spray cooking spray on parchment paper, you run the risk of the cookies actually frying a bit as the grease or cooking spray heats faster than the cookie dough.

Then it’s going to dry out your cookies.

And that’s a sad day.

OTHER EASY CHRISTMAS COOKIE RECIPES YOU’LL LOVE

• Gingerbread Thumbprint Cookies
• Peppermint Candy Cookies
• Grinch Flood Iced Cookies
• Cream Cheese Chocolate Cookies