Candy Cane Sugar Cookie SVG

Red over cream, all the way up

Every cookie plate needs something tall and skinny to break up the rounds, and the cane does that job. Red stripes slant across cream icing from the foot of the shaft to the tip of the hook, and an even strip of baked tan follows the outline on both sides, curving around the inside of the crook as well.

All the stripes share one angle across the whole drawing, which gives it a graphic, hand-piped feel. On the top of the curve they run almost along the cane rather than across it.

Pieces and weeding

This is one of the busier cuts among the iced shapes: 21 pieces with 1 cut-out, nearly all of them stripes of icing plus the outer rim. With that many loose parts, plan on a full sheet of transfer tape for vinyl. For paper, a backing card is the only sensible way to keep them in order, and laying the base down first gives each stripe an obvious home. It passes our cut checks from about 3 inches wide.

Color layers

• Base and lines in dark cocoa brown: a solid layer beneath it all that shows as the dividing lines and a narrow edge
• Cookie in golden tan: the strip of baked cookie along both sides
• Cream icing in warm cream: the parts of the cane between the stripes
• Red icing in strong candy red: the diagonal stripes

Recipe binder dividers

Tall shapes fit the side of a page beautifully. Run a cane up the left margin of a divider for the holiday section of a recipe binder, or glue one along the edge of a card holding a peppermint bark recipe. Use a printed copy if you are making more than a few, since Print Then Cut trims a single outline in place of twenty-odd stripes.

More places for a cane

• Tall gift tags tied to a jar of hot cocoa mix.
• Treat bag fronts, where the narrow shape fits a slim cellophane sleeve.
• Tea towels with a pair of canes mirrored to form a heart.
• Mugs in permanent vinyl, running up the side opposite the handle.

Size guide

The cane stands much taller than it is wide, so leave room for the height when you pick a width.

Under 3 inches the stripes turn into slivers, so print for anything smaller.

Color ideas

• Green and cream stripes for a mint version
• Blue and white for a winter table
• Pink stripes on white, with the rim left in kraft

Guidance for making those swaps is in our color-swap walkthrough.

Pairs well with

Our candy cane collection has plenty of non-cookie versions. On the same plate, try the Stocking Sugar Cookie and the Star Sugar Cookie.