# Sugar Plum Cookies Recipe

> Sugar plum cookies with plum jam and cream cheese fillings roll in purple sugar for Christmas.
- Title: Sugar Plum Cookies Recipe · Taste of Home | Shortify
- Summary: Sugar plum cookies with plum jam and cream cheese fillings roll in purple sugar for Christmas.
- Keywords: sugar plum cookies, plum jam, cream cheese, pecans, purple sugar, christmas baking, Taste of Home
- Source: Taste of Home — https://tasteofhome.com/recipes/sugar-plum-cookies
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: sugar plum cookies, plum jam, cream cheese, pecans, purple sugar, christmas baking
## 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.
## Key takeaway

Sugar plum cookies feature plum jam, cream cheese, and pecans rolled in purple sugar for holiday baking.