Santa Face Cookies
Your kids can help decorate the Santa faces on these shaped sugar cookies.
Prep Time:
1 hr 45 mins
Total Time:
2 hrs 45 mins
Servings:
Makes 18 cookies.
Ingredients
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1 recipe Cutout Sugar Cookies (see recipe center)
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1 recipe Royal Icing (see recipe center)
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Gel paste food coloring
Directions
1.
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Roll out dough and use a 2-by- 3-1/2-inch raindrop cookie cutter to cut 18 cookies. Use a 1-1/2-inch round cutter to cut 18 cookies. Place drops and circles on separate baking sheets. Cut each circle in half and separate. Bake cookies until just golden, about 15 min for drops, about 10 min for cut circles. Cool completely.
2.
Color 2/3 cup Royal Icing red and 1/4 cup each pink and blue and place in pastry bags with tips. Fill another pastry bag with 1-1/4 cups white icing.
3.
Ice tops of drop cookies with red icing and bottoms and all half-circles with white icing. Allow icing to set, about 30 min. Adhere half-circles to drop cookies with icing to form a mustache. Pipe hat trim and tip with white icing. Pipe eyes and nose with blue and pink icing. Allow icing to set completely, at least 3 hrs. Makes 18 cookies.
Nutrition information
Calories 300, Total Fat 11 g, Saturated Fat 6.5 g, Cholesterol 50 mg, Sodium 99 mg, Carbohydrate 49 g, Fiber 1 g, Protein 2 g. Daily Values: Vitamin A 0%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 0%, Iron 0%.
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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