Frosted cookies are decorated as snow globes complete with sprinkle snow and candy characters.

These festive Christmas cookies are a fun treat to make this holiday season! 

This recipe is part of The Sweetest Season, an annual virtual cookie swap co-hosted by Erin of The Speckled Palate and Susannah of Feast + West. Every year, food bloggers get together to share new holiday cookie recipes to make and give.

This year we are raising money for Cookies 4 Kids’ Cancer, which is a recognized 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for new, innovative and less-toxic treatments for childhood cancer.

Since 2008, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer has granted nearly $18 million to pediatric cancer research in the form of 100+ research grants to leading pediatric cancer centers across the country. From these grants have stemmed 35+ treatments available to kids battling cancer today.

Help us raise money for this important cause! Donate through our fundraising page.

Another exciting thing is that Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is in a matching window with their friends at OXO, meaning OXO will be matching every dollar raised through the end of 2023, up to $100,000. Whatever money we raise will automatically double on our fundraising page!

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Snow Globe Christmas Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 dozen cookies baked
• cream cheese or vanilla frosting
• white bead sprinkles
• assorted Christmas candy characters
• 6 clear fillable plastic ornament balls opened into 12 halves

Instructions

• Frost tops of all cookies with a thick layer of white frosting.
• Top with white bead sprinkles all over as the "snow".
• Now press 2-5 (depending on size) candy characters in the frosting, arranged to be standing in the snow.
• Add a half clear plastic ball on top of the cookie to cover like a snow globe.
• Serve your festive creations and enjoy!

Any cookie will work but they do need to be the size of the snow globe topper (or slightly smaller). 

I made these preportioned chocolate caramel chip cookies from Aldi. 

I choose slightly beige frosting because I am a sucker for cream cheese!

Vanilla also works but I found this whipped variety was perfectly soft and spreadable. 

For the snow globe toppers you need fillable clear plastic ornaments that open and split in half.

I found these at Joanne’s and Hobby Lobby. 

These white bead sprinkles were the perfect snow for my cookies and then I tried a variety of Christmas candy characters .

The icing candy decorations (baking aisle) work best as I found the gummies were hard to tell what they were! 

After baking and cooling your cookies frost tops of all cookies with a thick layer of white frosting. 

Then top with white bead sprinkles all over as the “snow”.

Now press 2-5 (depending on size) candy characters in the frosting, arranged to be standing in the snow.

Add a half clear plastic ball on top of the cookie to cover like a snow globe.

Serve or gift your festive cookies and enjoy!

About Cookies for Kids’ Cancer:
Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is a recognized 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for new, innovative and less-toxic treatments for childhood cancer. Since 2008, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer has granted nearly $18 million to pediatric cancer research in the form of 100+ research grants to leading pediatric cancer centers across the country. From these grants have stemmed 35+ treatments available to kids battling cancer today.

How it all started:
When 2-year-old Liam Witt was diagnosed with childhood cancer in 2007, his parents Larry and Gretchen were shocked to learn of the lack of effective treatments for pediatric cancers due to lack of funding. They pledged to support the funding of research for safer, more effective treatments for children battling cancer. With the help of 250 volunteers, his mom Gretchen baked and sold 96,000 cookies, raising more than $400,000 for research. Word spread, and people nationwide began asking, “How can I help?” From that giant cookie bake, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer was born.

Fast Facts:

Cancer is the #1 cause of death by disease of children in the U.S.
More than 40,000 U.S. children are actively battling cancer right now.
The average age of a child diagnosed with pediatric cancer is 6.
The combined 12 major groups of pediatric cancers receive 4% of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) federal budget.
2/3 pediatric cancer patients will develop long-term side effects, many life-threatening—a result of the treatments that “cured” them.
Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is committed to funding research for new, improved and less toxic treatment options for kids.
There are 300,000+ new cases of cancer affecting children worldwide annually. That’s more than 800 new kids affected every day.

Matching
Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is in a matching window with their friends at OXO, who will be matching every dollar raised through the end of 2023, up to $100,000. Whatever money we raise will automatically double on our fundraising page!

Help us raise money for this important cause! Donate through our fundraising page.

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