Still need to bake cookies for Santa? Why not flatter him with these look alikes!! They are SO easy and fun to make, we make them every year along with other Christmas sugar cookies. But these are the ones we leave out for Santa, just to let him know he's awesome. I first saw these in Family Fun several years ago. They use a red gel icing, but I think it's just easier to use white frosting and color some red. I am also going to share my favorite sugar cookie recipe, I've tried others but always come back to this one. I love how they taste!
Santa Cookies:
You will need:
Sugar Cookie dough
Heart Shape Cookie Cutter (like a medium size)
White Frosting
Red Frosting (just color with red food coloring)
Mini Chocolate Chips
Mini Marshmallows
Coconut
Sugar cookie dough recipe follows, but these are so simple!! Just make sugar cookie dough and use a heart shape cut out, then turn your heart upside down. Then frost the bottom 1/3 of your cookie with white frosting and cover with coconut for Santa's beard. Then frost the top 1/3 of your cookie with red frosting. For the hat, cut a mini marshmallow down the center, and stick onto the frosting on top. Under the red frosting, put a small line of white frosting for the bottom of Santa's hat and cover with a little coconut. Then stick mini chocolate chips on with white frosting for eyes and nose. I will post the pic of one of my kids' cookies from last year, but sometimes they use big chocolate chips and red m&ms for the nose or red hots, since when we make sugar cookies I have lots of little candies out. It's all about their creativity and making fun memories together!
Here is another Santa by one of my kids last year, Santa barely left a crumb :)
And my 13 year old decided to turn Christmas stars into a make believe family of the character "Patrick" from Sponge Bob!! He cracked us up, Patrick is the one with the green diaper looking thing, his "wife" is wearing blue overalls, and their little baby is at the bottom.
Sugar Cookies: I actually got this recipe from my friend Michelle Clark years and years ago and I love it, have used it ever since.
1 cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
3 Tablespoons Heavy Whipping Cream (whole or 2% milk can be substituted in a pinch)
1 teaspoon Vanilla, I love Watkins!
3 cups Flour
1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
Heat oven to 375. Bake for 7-8 minutes.
Cream together butter, sugar and egg. Add cream and vanilla. Add flour on top of wet ingredients in a mound, DON'T stir in. Add baking powder and salt on top of flour, mix into flour with a fork without mixing into wet ingredients. Once dry ingredients are stirred together, then mix flour into dough. Refrigerate for at least an hour. Roll out, don't make it too thin! In my earlier sugar cookie days I made this mistake thinking I'd get more cookies, but they were too thin to get onto my baking sheets and/or would break too easily. Also, another thing I've learned with sugar cookies is that parchment paper on your baking sheets is a MUST. You know how lots of shapes have little pieces like hands or heads or like the bottom little trunk of the tree? Well sugar cookies made on parchment paper just slide off the paper in one piece, still intact. But left on baking sheets? I've learned the hard way that's a no-no~ cookies break so easily coming off the pans. And what little 5 year old girl wants to decorate a headless angel? Not mine I tell you.
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