Santa Face Cookies
(from wkphipps’s recipe box)
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cook time: 260 minutes
Serves 18 people
Categories: Desserts
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Jiffy icing
Directions
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COOKIES:
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Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl; set aside.
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In mixer bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy, 3 minutes.
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Beat in yolks and vanilla.
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Add flour mixture and combine.
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Wrap dough in plastic wrap, chill 1 hour.
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Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
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Roll out dough and use a 2 X 3 1/2 inch raindrop cutter to cut 18 cookies.
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Use a 1 1/2 round cuter to cut 18 cookies.
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Place drops and circles on separate baking sheets.
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Cut each circle in half and separate.
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Bake cookies until just golden, about 15 minutes for drops and 10 minutes for cut circles.
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Cool completely.
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Color 2/3 cup icing red and 1/4 cup each pink and blue and place in pastry bags with tips.
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Fill another pastry bag with 1 1/4 cups white icing.
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Ice tops of drop cookies with red icing and bottoms and all half circles with white icing.
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Allow icing to set, about 30 minutes.
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Adhere half ciarcles to drop cookies with icing to form a mustache.
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Pipe hat trim and tip with white icing.
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Pipe eyes and nose with blue and pink icinig.
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Allow icing to set completely, approx. 3 hours.