Ugly Christmas Sweater Cookies (best sugar cookie recipe) (2024)

FAQs

How to win the ugly Christmas sweater Contest? ›

Some are even no-sew ideas, so you can still deck your sweater out with lights, mirrors, ornaments and so much more with just a good old-fashioned glue gun.

Too much sugar and butter can make sugar cookies spread and lose their shape when baked. This one requires a little patience because once you roll out your dough, you are ready to bake. Be patient and bake your cookies when the dough is really cold.

Take plain sugar cookies up a notch with exciting mix-ins like chocolate chips, rainbow sprinkles, toasted chopped nuts, chopped dried fruit or M&M's. Add these after blending your butter and egg into the sugar cookie mix.

To be eligible as part of the “sweater” it must be attached. Additional items such as hats, jewelry, pants or other festive attire will not be considered when voting for the Ugliest Christmas Sweater, but we encourage you to wear for entertainment purposes. How will the Ugliest Christmas Sweater Champion be determined?

“Proceeds of this sweater will go to charity.” 2 Chainz promoted his five-figure sweater in a tweet, in which he wrote, “$90,000 cash. 50 carats of diamonds and 250 grams of gold on the worlds most expensivest ugly Christmas sweater.

It's best to keep your pants on the simpler side to ground that sweater of yours. If you want to keep the fun going, go for a pair of red or green chinos! Otherwise, some neutral trousers or a pair of dark wash denim will suffice.

But, the modern-day tradition of wearing ugly Christmas sweaters started in the 1980s with the Young Men's Institute (YMI) Club members in San Francisco. The clubmen started wearing festive, ugly sweaters as a joke to see who could wear the ugliest one.

Mixing Butter & Sugar

If your butter is under mixed, it won't have the air pockets to hold it's shape. If it's over-mixed, the air pockets decrease in size and are unable to hold their shape in the oven—causing your cookies to spread. It's best to cream butter and sugar on medium speed for 2 to 3 minutes.

Baking powder simply adds carbon dioxide to the equation, providing a more forceful pressure that encourages a dough to spread up and out. Without the well-developed elasticity of a bread dough, the strands of gluten in cookies would sooner snap than stretch, cracking along the surface.

Why are my sugar cookies so airy? ›

Q: Why are my cookies so puffy and cakey? Whipping too much air into the dough. That fluffy texture you want in a cake results from beating a lot of air into the room temperature butter and sugar, and it does the same for cookies. So don't overdo it when you're creaming together the butter and sugar.

Just roll the dough into one inch balls and then coat them in equal parts cinnamon and sugar. Then I press them gently with a glass before baking them according to the directions on the package. That's it!

Instead of a casual pair of jeans, team your jumper with statement leather trousers and a bold pair of heels. Keep the accessories subtle and paired down with an understated clutch and simple jewellery.

But first, what is an ugly Christmas sweater? An ugly Christmas sweater is a holiday-themed garment that looks like it was made for your grandma. It's usually a knit, but these days some people wear them as regular sweaters, too (for those bold enough to be fashion-forward).

“On Halloween, she wears a Christmas sweater so that she doesn't celebrate.” “That was David's idea, which I loved” Greer recalls. “We decided that Karen hates Halloween so much that she just skips it, and Thanksgiving, and in her own head goes right to Christmas.

Place the snow in the middle of the cardboard globe image and glue the lid onto it, sealing the snow inside. Cut out a piece of felt in the shape of the globe's base, and glue it to the sweater. Using a generous amount of hot glue, attach the globe portion, glue the pom-poms to the sweater, and let dry for 2–3 hours.