Reindeer Sugar Cookie SVG

About this design

Kids pick this one before anything else on the plate, usually nose first. A long chocolate face tapers down to a pale muzzle, the round red nose sits on top of it, and two wide cream eyes look straight at you. Rounded ears stick out at the sides, and a pair of branching antlers climbs up from the crown of the head.

Every part of that silhouette is wrapped in golden dough. The band follows each antler tine and curls around the ears, so the whole animal looks as though it came off one sheet of rolled cookie.

Kids’ baking day

A reindeer gives a table of small bakers something to get silly about, and the paper goods can match.

• Name cards at each place, with the cookie above a handwritten name.
• Treat bag toppers for taking the day’s batch home.
• Child-size aprons with the face in heat-transfer vinyl.
• Party invitations for a cookie decorating afternoon.
• Bakery box stickers if the batch is going to neighbors.

Pieces and weeding

You will be handling 10 pieces and 4 cut-outs from the solid file. They break down into the baked outline, the chocolate parts of the face, ears and antlers, plus the muzzle, nose and eyes. Each part ends up on its own after cutting, so vinyl needs transfer tape to travel as a group and paper needs a backing card to sit on. It passes our cut checks from about 2.5 inches wide.

Weed around the antlers slowly. The narrow tines are the most likely spot for vinyl to lift along with the waste.

Layers in the color file

Instead of a long instruction list, here is what each layer holds:

• Base and lines in very dark cocoa: a full backing that appears as the drawn lines and a whisper of an edge
• Cookie in toasty tan: the baked band around the head, ears and antlers
• Cream icing in pale cream: the eyes and the muzzle
• Red icing in candy red: the nose
• Chocolate in coffee brown: the head, the ears and both antlers

Build from the bottom of that list upward in paper, gluing the head before the muzzle and leaving the nose until the end.

Size guide

Smaller than 2.5 inches, the narrow parts of the face and antlers get too fine for a blade. Printing the color version and using Print Then Cut solves that for mini labels.

Change the coat

• Pale tan icing with dark antlers, for a fawn
• Soft gray icing for a northern herd
• A green or gold nose if the whole family wants its own reindeer

You can test these in your editor by following our SVG color guide.

Pairs well with

The Santa Hat Sugar Cookie keeps the character theme going, as does the Snowman Sugar Cookie. For browner, spicier company, look through our gingerbread designs.