The Best EVER Eid Cookies

Eid Cookies

Written and test kitchen-ed by Theresa Corbin


Guess which one is me.

This was our Christmas tradition, but since two of us are no longer Christian (I’m a Muslim, in case you didn’t catch that, and one of my younger sisters is an atheist) we have changed it to winter baking day.  It is just as awesome as it ever was and it makes winter feel special and like going home again.

This Eid al-Fitr a friend of mine, knowing my love for sugar cookie making, gave me Islamic cookie cutters (from Thanks Brandi, you rock!!) So, I thought why not incorporate baking day into my Eid-abration this year for Eid Al-Adha.

So, I gathered my ingredients and some Eid cheer and had a glorious baking day and so can you. Here’s how:

Gather family and the following ingredients to make wonderful Eid memories together!

Eid Cookie ingredients
Don’t use this weird Florida Crystals pure cane sugar in the pic. It will stay crystallized and weird after baking. Go with plain, white sugar.

Sugar cookie recipe from Katrina’s Kitchen


1 Cup butter, softened

1 Cup granulated white sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

1 egg

2 teaspoons baking powder

3 cups all purpose flour


Preheat oven to 350° F.


Beat in extracts and egg.


Mit it up

The dough will be very stiff. If it becomes too stiff for your mixer turn out the dough onto a counter-top surface. Wet your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.


Roll it out
10 points if you can find my wedding ring in this pic

Bake at 350 F (177 C) for 6-8 minutes. Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.


This is where it gets really fun. When cookies are completely cool, it’s frosting time!

Corbin’s super secret frosting recipe:

1.5 cups powdered sugar

1 tablespoon butter (room temp)

1.5 tablespoons french vanilla coffee mate coffee creamer (the liquid stuff. not powdered)

food coloring in your favorite colors.

Use this frosting recipe for each color you want on your cookies. I made one in each of the following colors: white (no added food coloring), purple, yellow, green, and pink.

Mix all ingredients together. If the frosting is too thin, add more powdered sugar (a tablespoon at a time) until it is as thick as toothpaste, or how you like the consistency. Too thick? Add some more creamer a teaspoon at a time.

Put frosting into a piping bag or whatever contraption you have. Pipe an outline of frosting, fill in, and let dry.

time to frost

After frosting is dry to the touch (time varies from 2-10 hours depending on lots of factors), decorate cookies with left over frosting.


Now dive in, share with family, friends, and neighbours; and have a great Eid!!

Eid Mubarak



9 thoughts on “The Best EVER Eid Cookies

  1. Love the picture of the beautiful sisters, MashAllah! Those cookies are looking temptingly yummy and sin-licious!! Too bad am far and gluten intolerant otherwise I was kinda dropping on you ladies 😉


      1. Oh, and count me in as well… Let the diet wait (forever, apparently!)… Just wait for me to fly 12 hours :-p
        As we say in Arabic: sahtein 🙂
        You are four sisters, like me and my sisters, too 🙂 no brothers here. And no male kids except my son! :-l
        The cookies seem to be so yummy! My fingers are itching! I want to bake!


      2. We will definitely wait for you! 🙂 I actually have two brothers but they aren’t big on baking day and they live farther away. Big family here. Happy Baking!




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