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Santa Sugar Cookies

Santa Sugar Cookies

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Ingredients
  

Instructions
 

  • Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
  • Cream together butter and sugar.
  • Add egg and milk and continue beating on low.
  • Slowly add flour, and beat until mixture pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
  • Divide the dough in half.
  • wrap each in waxed paper and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
  • Preheat oven to 375.
  • Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  • Dust work area and rolling pin with powdered sugar.
  • Roll out dough to 1/4" thick.
  • Cut into heart shapes and place on prepared sheet.
  • Bake for 7-9 minutes or until edges are beginninh to brown.
  • Leave on sheet for 2 minutes before moving to wire rack to finish cooling.
  • Mix powdered sugar, milk and corn syrup in a bowl until smooth.
  • Divide icing in half and color one half with red food coloring.
  • Transfer each color to piping bag or zippered bag to pipe onto cookies.
  • Turn heart upside down.
  • Pipe red on top to make hat.
  • Pipe White around bottom to make beard.
  • Use white icing to glue down a red M&M for the nose and the two candy eyes.
  • Allow that to dry for 10 minutes.
  • Pipe red mouth between beard and moustache.
  • Pipe a white band at bottom of hat and white bal at the top.
  • Allow to sit for at least an hour for icing to get hard.

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