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Who could resist eating this giant sugar cookie?
This recipe is easy enough for even the littlest
kiddos to get involved in helping to decorate it.
Part of the fun is guessing who will end up with
more icing on them...the cookies or the kids?
You will need:
1 roll of refrigerated cookie dough or
your favorite recipe for sugar cookies
Vanilla icing
red paste food coloring
colored sprinkles or colored sugar for
decorations
small heart-shaped cookie cutter
2 plastic baggies or icing bags with a wide
circle tip and a narrow writing tip
1 large baking sheet
flour
rolling pin
What You Do:
Lightly flour a large baking sheet. Roll the sugar cookie
dough directly out onto the baking tray to ¼ in. thickness,
making it fit inside the tray. Taking a sharp knife, cut
out a large heart shape outline in the dough, removing
all of the excess pieces. Remember to leave room around
the edges of the pan to allow the cookie to expand in size
while baking. Lightly prick the center of the dough with a
fork so that a big air bubble doesn’t form in the center of
the cookie causing it to puff up. Bake 9-12 minutes or until
very lightly browned. Cool thoroughly before decorating.
You will need 2 bowls for the pink and red icing. Using a
tiny bit of the red food coloring, tint 2/3 of the vanilla icing
pink. Tint half of the remaining icing red, leaving the rest
white. Fill the baggies or icing bags with the red and white
icings.
To Decorate:
Cover the entire cookie with pink icing. Top
with colored sprinkles or sugar of your choice. Use the vanilla
icing to make round marble-sized balls along the outside border
of the cookie. Top each white ball with a smaller red ball. Using
the heart cookie cutter, center it in the middle of the cookie then
push it into the icing to make a heart impression. Use the red icing
to trace the line of the heart. Switch back to the white to make
designs within the smaller heart.
About the Author:
Tami Rose lives in North Carolina with her husband and 2 children. She is always on the lookout for fun, easy recipes that any
age group can make. She is the Assistant Administrator on the MomsMenu.com forums.
You can find her there under the username of "ajrsmom".
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