My church's youth group is having an ugly sweater party tonight, complete with a Baking Contest. Since I am a local celebrity and all (you know, the kind of celebrity that you see late at night on the weather channel being filmed during a massive tornado saying something like, "Its like, windy out." Yeah. Thats me.) I was asked to be a judge!
Then Mr. Chris, the Youth Pastor, decided it would be neat if I could make a couple cookies for the winners. Two winners. One for taste and the other for festive-ness.
Seeing as I am cutting edge in terms of fashion* I knew I needed to do some 'ugly sweater' research. I gotta tell ya, it was the best research ever.
*Please tell me that flour and peanut butter covered Hanes t-shirts and jeans are cutting edge.
Here are some of my favorites.
Pics from www.uglychristmassweatersforsale.com
I think I recognize a relative in there. This keen sense of style might run in the family.
But! This is a baking blog so I figure I will show you the two cookies I made.
This is my 'busy'' ugly Christmas sweater.
I am most certainly not saying it is based on anything in my closet.
And this is my 'weird eyed rudolf with a red nose that sticks out way too far and is covered with gravy and mashed potatos by the end of the night' ugly Christmas sweater.
Again, these are not similar to anything that might currently reside in my home.
Since they are supposed to be a prize (I feel sorry for the winners!) I made them big… they are bigger then my hand.
It was so much fun to make, I cant wait to make more!
As a matter of fact, I think I am going to host an "Ugly Christmas Sweater Cookie Contest" next year. With a fabulously awesome prize!!!
Get your creative cap on.. you only have a year to create the most hideous sweater cookie you can think of! 
I used my favorite sugar cookie recipe and glaze icing.
Merry Christmas!
How adorable! Love the white one
Oh my gosh…WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t think there’s anything you can’t make!!
Have a very Merry Christmas, Amanda!!
HAH!!!! I’m game! Let the planning and plotting begin!!!
Oh I love this. These are just fantastic, Amanda. Well done!
I hardly think these are ugly! Oh my goodness these are absolutely adorable!!!!!!
Hehe, sorry, but your sweaters aren’t ugly enough. They’re too cute!! Ok, maybe not so much on a grown man…
I wish I would have thought of this when my son-in-law held his “Dudes” book club and they all wore ugly Christmas sweaters:) I am going to send him your link, even though I am taking a risk that it will mar his delusion that I am a creative cookie maker!?!
You are full of good ideas! Love ‘em! Merry Christmas to you and your family, Amanda!
Those are great!! So clever, you are
Amazing sweater cookies! and some UGLY sweaters
those are fantastic. i love your personality! ellen needs to see these!! send her some!
Oh my goodness! Your sweater cookies are wonderful and what a great prize for the winners. Love the decorating detail in the white sweater Amanda. Have fun judging the contest, it will be a blast.
Your idea to host an ugly sweater cookie contest next year is an awesome one. Should be hilarious to see the creativity that comes out of it.
I literally laughed out loud when I saw these! So cute!
Oh my goodness…you have totally outdone yourself. I love these and want a set of my own! The cute factor is simply killing me! And they look delicious! I want to try one of these sugar cookies of yours.
this post is just a hoot!!
love those “ugly” & “sweet” cookies you designed!
This cookie idea is hilarious love it! And I would love to see an ugly Christmas sweater cookie contest.
Hiiiilarious!!! I love it!
super fun! (as usual
Oh my goodness…those are brilliant!!
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!1 Although I have to say yours are a lot prettier than the photos of ugly sweaters! Ugly sweaters will definitely become popular this year thanks to you!
So funny!!
That. Is. Awesome.
I cannot believe how amazing these are!! You are hilarious & the perfect baker to make these cookies. I do look to you for fashion. Really
XO
Hilarious!! So adorable and seriously funny at the same time.
haha I love it! I am amazed by your detail work on that first one. They’re so funny!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
I’m lovin’ it!
Hysterical!! I didn’t have an ugly Christmas sweater, but was given an ugly sweater at Christmas one year. A gosh awful chocolate milk brown one covered in wooden beads and dangling feathers, plus it was TOO small as I attempted to wear it one time, just to be polite.
Your cookies are fab!!!
Your white sweater cookie has got to be THE cutest things I’ve ever seen! You are just too talented!
That’s cool. Friends of mine just did an Ugly Sweater Christmas card that was the coolest!
these are the most fantastic things I have ever seen.
You are so hilarious! I love your posts, I always get such a chuckle and this one certainly doesn’t disappoint!!!
But the sweaters are waaaaay too cute to be called ugly!!
Those photos are hysterical. The one with the woman panicking/crying to get off the man’s lap leads me to believe it may NOT be her husband as we would assume!!
xMB
This is hilarious, I’d love a contest! My Nanny has a whole closet full of.prizewinners, lol! What a great idea!
LOL!! These are the best!
Coolest cookies ever!
this…. is genius. GENIUS I SAY. aaahaha I was just dusting off my ugly Christmas sweater from my closet last night. I still haven’t had a chance to put it to use at an ‘ugly sweater party’ but I literally bought it on sale for like $8 at Sears 2 years ago with that fateful day in mind.
Or, you know, the day I realize I’m actually wearing it, buying puffy paints and glitter at Michael’s Crafts.
You’ve won the prize for the best Christmas cookies. EVER!
Ugly sweater cookies could be a trending twitter subject.
xoxo
These are too cute and would have been perfect for the ugly sweater Christmas party I went to last weekend. Love your research photos too, funny enough the first picture above is the one that was used for our party invitation only with one of my friend’s head on top. I took some pictures of the sweaters at our party, so come over to my blog and check them out, they were great! Hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas!
hahaha! these are awesome!!! i love all your ideas & have linked back to you on several occasions. can’t wait to see what you’re baking next
TOO FUN!!!! You are SO amazing coming up with creative ideas for cookies, they are pure perfection!!!
I love this sooooo much! I don’t have any ugly Christmas sweaters, but I know my sister does! (And, more notably, she has a hideous Christmas vest… she’s twenty-four people! That shouldn’t happen!)
I hope you DO host an ugly sweater cookie contest next year! I just may borrow her vest… lol
hahahahahahahahaha!!! Amanda! These are just AWESOME!!! I think you did Bill Cosby proud. (And I dating myself here? Cosby Show?)
AnyWAY….love, love, love! YOU AMAZE ME with every post!
These are so adorable! We must have been thinking alike because I decorated a few of my gingerbread men with reindeer sweaters this year. Yours are much cuter, though!
Those cookies are by far the best christmas cookies I’ve seen! Great attention to detail
Total cuteness!
Lol! I would love to see the side-by-side comparison of the cookies w/ the actual sweaters. Oh wait, you claim they’re not based on anything in your wardrobe.
These are clever and cute! Your church’s youth group is a lucky bunch.
these are hysterical!
What a fantastic idea! If I ever host/get invited to an Ugly Sweater Party I would certainly have to make ugly sweater cookies. Or cupcakes…Hmm, the possibilities!
I think I may have burned a sweater I had like one of the models was wearing!
Your cookies looked fabulous though!
pictures and cookies were awesome! Well, just the cookies were awesome! Those sweaters in the pictures, oh man! LOL
He he!! Loving it!
Genius! These are hilarious!!
Amanda! Thanks for making these cookies for us! They were a huge it! The winner of the festive ones was SO EXCITED! thanks again! I owe you big time! You can take credit for the cookies but i think it ws a good idea right!
I just wouldn’t be able to eat them they are so pretty.
What happened to the couple in the last photo? Such strange faces. Really cute cookies though.
So funny! Loved the cookies.
Hahahaha. One of the most funny Christmas posts I’ve ever read.
THANK YOU. You made me smile.
LOL you are soooo funny Amanda!!
Merry Christma!
Yes, I agree, genius and hilarious!
These are SO CUTE, Amanda. Wherever did you find a “sweater” cookie cutter?
I had the red sweater, but it was in blue. Really, actually your red one is for more tastful then the blue sweater I had. The blue sweater’s eyes were tiny beads, and the deer was as wide as the sweater. It was a gift.
HIGH-LAIR-EEEE-USSSS Amanda!!!
your talent never ceases to amaze me!!!!!
These are so cute!! What a great idea. I’m doing a bit of a baking round-up post on my blog tonight and am featuring these – http://essbeevee.blogspot.com (it’ll be going up in an hour or so)
Dear Amanda Merry Christmas to you ^_^
what a fun theme, and you executed it so well! very nice work, amanda, and happy holidays!
I adore these! Such a good idea.
Thanks for this. I really enjoyed it. It was time for a laugh.
Great job! I featured this today on my blog – Today’s Top 20! Feel free to stop by and grab a button!
Amanda
todaystoptwenty.blogspot.com
Dang, you’re talented!
Cutest cookies ever! Great post!
SO FUN! Love it!
these are too funny. i saw these right before christmas and was determined to make them. however, i couldn’t find a good cookie cutter. where did you get yours?
Oh my gosh! My son and I are cracking up laughing! this is such an awesome idea. He says, the cookies are cute, the sweaters, not so much! Love your creativity!
Oh my gosh! I was googling ugly christmas sweater cookies to maybe find some to make for my own ugly sweater party and came across your page… Holy geeez the ones you made are Uh.Maze.Ing !!!! What did you use to get the detailed icing on the ‘busy’ Christmas sweater? Thanks!
Casey
casey.d.kramer@gmail.com
Thanks Casey! I just used my #1 and #2 wilton tips. They make light work of little details!
Wayyyyyyy funny, Amanda!!
Ugly, yet so beautiful!
I wish I had an ounce of your talent (and patience). These are sooooooo cute!
These made me laugh out loud!!!!!
What a wonderful idea!!!!!
Only you could make ugly Christmas sweaters into something so adorable.
And I’m so in on the contest next year!!!!
These are so stinkin’ hilarious!!!
No matter how cute Colin Firth can be, I think the rudolph sweater looks bette rin cookie form!
These are just too funny! My dad is a little bit obsessed with 80′s style “Cosby Sweaters” and we tease him every Christmas!
This morning, The Today Show on NBC-TV (12/11/2012) had a feature about a small business selling ugly Christmas sweater cookies! (That’s not you, is it?)
Nope! Not me. Think it was some gal on Etsy.