Made from a basicsugar cookiedough, these treats are decorating with a surprising shortcut ingredientready-made frosting!
Its a great shortcut for busy cooks during the holiday season.
What brand of icing is used on these cookies?
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Look for it with the cake decorating supplies on the baking aisle of your grocery store.
Can you make homemade icing for these cookies?
pkg.red cookie icing(such as Betty Crocker)
Red sanding sugar
1(7-oz.
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)pkg.black cookie icing
1(7-oz.)
pkg.orange cookie icing
Directions
Make cookie dough:
Preheat oven to 375F.
Beat in egg yolk and vanilla extract until combined.
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Whisk together flour, salt, and baking soda in a small bowl.
Using a lightly floured 4 1/2-inch cardinal cookie cutter, cut dough into as many birds as you might.
Transfer dough cutouts to a separate parchment paper-lined baking sheet, spacing cutouts about 1 inch apart.
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Chill dough cutouts until ready to bake.
Reroll scraps; repeat freezing and cutting with remaining dough.
Bake cookies:
Bake in preheated oven until edges are light golden, 8 to 10 minutes.
Remove from oven, and transfer baking sheet to a wire rack; let cool 5 minutes.
Transfer cookies to wire rack, and let stand until completely cool, about 30 minutes.
Add icing to cookies:
Place 1 cooled cookie on a clean work surface.
Pipe red icing to fill most of the space within the piped border.
Using a wooden pick, spread icing to create an even layer.
Generously sprinkle icing with sanding sugar.
Transfer iced cookie to wire rack.
Repeat decorating process with remaining cookies, red icing, and sanding sugar.
Let cookies stand until red icing is dry to the touch, about 40 minutes.
Gently brush off excess sugar from iced cookies.
Let stand until black icing is mostly dry to the touch, about 15 minutes.
Let cookies stand at room temperature until icing has completely dried, at least 4 hours.
Store in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days.
