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Sugar Plum Cookies Recipe
Sugar plum cookies with plum jam and cream cheese fillings roll in purple sugar for Christmas.
In brief
Sugar plum cookies with plum jam and cream cheese fillings roll in purple sugar for Christmas. Sugar plum cookies feature plum jam, cream cheese, and pecans rolled in purple sugar for holiday baking. Originally reported by Taste of Home.
Sugar Plum Cookies Recipe
Taste of Home Test Kitchen created sugar plum cookies using a peach cookie base from Nancy Pappas.
“We loved Nancy Pappas’s 2025 Cookie Exchange-winning peach cookies so much that we created a sugar plum cookie recipe based on hers, with a few tweaks to make them perfect for Christmas.”
Recipe Details
Yield: about 3-1/2 dozen. Prep: 2 hours 30 min. Cook: 15 min per batch.
Ingredients
Butter, confectioners' sugar, eggs, lemon zest, vanilla, sour cream, flour, baking powder, salt, plum jam, pecans, cream cheese, cinnamon, simple syrup, food coloring, purple sugar, mint leaves.
Cookie Making Steps
Roll dough into balls, bake, cut out crumbs, fill with plum jam and cream cheese, roll in purple sugar.
Decoration Process
Dip cookies in purple and red food coloring, roll in purple sugar, attach mint leaves with jam.
Nutrition Facts
1 cookie: 160 calories, 6g fat, 22mg cholesterol, 99mg sodium, 25g carbohydrate.
What matters most
Sugar plum cookies feature plum jam, cream cheese, and pecans rolled in purple sugar for holiday baking.
