My wife has a favorite cookie, and the good thing is… they only have 3 ingredients. She calls them her three-ingredients Christmas Cookies (not to be mistaken for her three-ingredient Easter cookies or her three-ingredient St. Patty’s day cookies… which are the same cookies, with different colored icing).
Every single person that eats them loves them and when we tell them how easy they are to make- they are pretty astounded. (If you haven’t tried these, you must.) 
These cookies are so good! First off, you need to get your ingredients. Go to your local Publix and purchase your Pillsbury™ Baking and Frosting Mixes. They just seem to have the right taste & sweetness. You need to get Pillsbury™ Funfetti Cake Box Mix, Pillsbury™ Funfetti Icing, 2 eggs, 1/3 cup vegetable oil, and food coloring (optional).
Mix the eggs, oil, and cake mix in a bowl (YOUR THREE INGREDIENTS!)
You don’t have to use a mixer, just use a spoon and mix it until it is moist and you don’t see the cake mix separated anymore. 
Next, take a glass cup and dip the bottom in flour. Roll your cookies into balls and set them on a cookie sheet. Now take your cup, dipped in flour, and flatten each cookie, just a little. Re-dip and flatten the next one. Do this for every cookie. PS- the flour helps it to not stick to the cookies.
To make these festive, the kids and I mixed the food coloring into the icing. The more you use, the darker the color. 
Bake the cookies at 350 for about 8-12 minutes. Keep an eye on them and once they start to brown (golden-brown), take them out of the oven. Once they come out of the oven, let the cookies cool.
When they are cool, let the kids put the icing on them. Allie clearly had fun doing this. (I’m not going to say that I would willingly eat the one that she did… she may have eaten some of the icing while she was making her cookie.)
That reminds me of a tip! For each of the kids, we give them ONE cookie that they can create themselves. They can ice it, decorate it, etc… That way, if they ‘eat’ some along the way, it isn’t a big deal. Becky and I usually set aside a batch for the kids and then we have a batch that will be ours to decorate and share.
Here are the kids putting sprinkles on their batch of cookies (not to worry- everyone had clean hands!) They loved doing this and they were calling “dibs” (literally) on every cookie that they would decorate.
We set them on Becky’s favorite plate (it is a plate given to her by her grandmother).
These were a hit at our family Christmas party. We have one every year, after Thanksgiving, to kick off the season, and these are always the first things gone (after dinner, of course!) 
Ready for more recipes? When you are done making cookies from the websites above (wait… can you ever be done making cookies?), stop over to see my favorite breakfast recipe for Crazy Pancakes!
These look delicious and so fun to make. A nice and easy recipe to get the kids involved in making and decorating.
Thank you for the post and the idea!
We love them!
Hey- I hear you are from near our home-town.