Sugar Cookie Dreidels

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Sugar Cookie Dreidels

Three layers of sugar cookies hide a small candy pocket inside these dreidel-shaped treats. Vanilla frosting coats the stacks, with blue icing added once the coating sets.
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Prep
30 minutes
Cook
10 minutes
Chilling, cooling and setting
2 hours 30 minutes
Total
3 hours 10 minutes
Serves
12 assembled cookies (approximately)

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Candy-filled dreidel cookies made with refrigerated sugar cookie dough, stacked in three layers and finished with vanilla frosting and blue icing.

Sugar Cookie Dreidels

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  • 2 Logs Sugar Cookie Dough (16 ounces each, refrigerated)
  • ½ Cup All-Purpose Flour (mixed into the dough)
  • 7 oz White Cookie Icing (tube)
  • 7 oz Blue Cookie Icing (tube)
  • 16 oz Vanilla Frosting
  • 10 oz M&M’s Minis (use as needed for filling)

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Keep matching cookie sets together

Each assembled dreidel needs two whole cookies and a middle cookie with a small opening. Let every piece cool completely before stacking, filling, and coating. A dreidel cutter and small round cutter or piping-tip base help make the shapes.

Adapted from Joanna Saltz at Delish.

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The cooking plan

How to make Sugar Cookie Dreidels.

  1. Mix dough with flour. Roll 1/4 inch thick on parchment and cut dreidel shapes. For each treat, keep two shapes whole and cut a small hole in a third. Chill cutouts at least 1 hour.

  2. Heat oven to 350°F. Arrange chilled cookies on parchment-lined baking sheets with space between them. Bake about 9–10 minutes, until edges are lightly golden. Let cookies firm on the sheets, then transfer carefully to a rack and cool completely before assembly. Bake in batches if needed.

  3. Pipe white cookie icing around the edge of one whole cookie. Place a matching cookie with a hole on top. Add a few M&M’s Minis into the opening, keeping candy below the rim.

  4. Pipe white icing along the top edge of the middle layer and cover with a second whole cookie. Let the icing hold for about 5 minutes. Repeat, handling gently, then put the assembled cookies on a rack over a tray.

  5. Transfer vanilla frosting to a microwave-safe measuring cup. Warm in short 15-second bursts, stirring each time, just until pourable. Spoon or pour over assembled cookies and allow excess to drip onto the tray.

  6. Leave cookies until the coating is set, about 1 hour or longer depending on the frosting. Decorate with blue cookie icing and let the decorations set according to the icing label before moving or stacking.

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Sugar Cookie Dreidels

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Candy-filled dreidel cookies made with refrigerated sugar cookie dough, stacked in three layers and finished with vanilla frosting and blue icing.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Chilling, cooling and setting 2 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 10 minutes
Servings: 12 assembled cookies (approximately)
Course: Dessert
Ingredients Instructions Notes

Ingredients
  

  •  
    2 Logs Sugar Cookie Dough 16 ounces each, refrigerated
  • ½ Cup All-Purpose Flour mixed into the dough
  •  
    7 oz White Cookie Icing tube
  •  
    7 oz Blue Cookie Icing tube
  •  
    16 oz Vanilla Frosting
  •  
    10 oz M&M’s Minis use as needed for filling

Instructions
 

  1. Mix dough with flour. Roll 1/4 inch thick on parchment and cut dreidel shapes. For each treat, keep two shapes whole and cut a small hole in a third. Chill cutouts at least 1 hour.
  2. Heat oven to 350°F. Arrange chilled cookies on parchment-lined baking sheets with space between them. Bake about 9–10 minutes, until edges are lightly golden. Let cookies firm on the sheets, then transfer carefully to a rack and cool completely before assembly. Bake in batches if needed.
  3. Pipe white cookie icing around the edge of one whole cookie. Place a matching cookie with a hole on top. Add a few M&M’s Minis into the opening, keeping candy below the rim.
  4. Pipe white icing along the top edge of the middle layer and cover with a second whole cookie. Let the icing hold for about 5 minutes. Repeat, handling gently, then put the assembled cookies on a rack over a tray.
  5. Transfer vanilla frosting to a microwave-safe measuring cup. Warm in short 15-second bursts, stirring each time, just until pourable. Spoon or pour over assembled cookies and allow excess to drip onto the tray.
  6. Leave cookies until the coating is set, about 1 hour or longer depending on the frosting. Decorate with blue cookie icing and let the decorations set according to the icing label before moving or stacking.

Notes

Yield depends on cutter size and dough thickness. Each finished treat uses two solid cookies and one hollow middle cookie; keep matching sets together. Timing includes an estimated cooling period and may increase with extra baking batches or slow-setting frosting. Follow storage instructions on the dough, icing, and frosting labels.

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