Description
Santa-shaped rolled sugar cookies, decorated with red and white icing, have a fun Reddi-wip beard added just before eating.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ teaspoons almond extract
- PAM® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 2 (7 ounce) pouches red decorating cookie icing
- 2 (7 ounce) pouches white decorating cookie icing
- 22 red candy-coated chocolate pieces
- 44 semisweet chocolate morsels
- Reddi-wip® Original Dairy Whipped Topping
Instructions
- Combine flour
- baking powder
- and salt in medium bowl; set aside. Beat sugar and butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs
- vanilla and almond extracts; mix well. Gradually add flour mixture beating on low speed after each addition until well blended. Divide dough into 3 portions; wrap each tightly in plastic wrap. Refrigerate dough 2 hours or until thoroughly chilled and firm enough to handle.
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray baking sheets and 5-inch Santa face cookie cutter with cooking spray; set aside.
- Roll out one portion of dough to 1/4-inch thickness on a floured surface with a floured rolling pin. Cut out cookies with the prepared cutter; transfer them onto prepared baking sheets using a metal spatula
- placing them 1 inch apart. Repeat with remaining dough
- spraying the cutter with additional cooking spray as needed.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the edges are golden brown
- about 7 to 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets briefly before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Use red icing to fill in the hat
- leaving the tip of the hat blank. Use white icing to fill in the tip of the hat
- the brim of the hat
- the beard and to make 2 dots in the center of the face for the eyes. Place a red candy centered between the eyes at the top of the beard for the nose and a mini morsel on each white dot to make eyes. Top beard with Reddi-wip just before serving.
Total Time: 4 hrs
Servings: 20