Decorate-Before-You-Bake Cookies

Name: Decorate-Before-You-Bake Cookies
Prep time: 1 h 40 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 72
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking soda; 118 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 177 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 0 teaspoons cream of tartar; 1 egg; 118 milliliters Gold Medal® all-purpose flour; 414 milliliters Gold all-purpose flour; 4 drops green food color; 3 teaspoons milk; 4 drops red food color; 0 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters sugar; 2 Tbsps sugar

Need a vegetarian dessert? Decorate-Before-You-Bake Cookies could be a super recipe to try. One serving contains 50 calories, 1g of protein, and 3g of fat. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 72. If you have baking soda, butter, food color, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Instructions

In large bowl, beat 3/4 cup butter and 1/2 cup sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.

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Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add egg; beat well. Stir in 1 3/4 cups flour, the baking soda, cream of tartar and salt. Knead dough into smooth ball. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.

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Baking Soda

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Wrap

Egg

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Plastic Wrap

Meanwhile, in small bowl, mix 1/2 cup butter, the milk and 1/2 cup flour with fork until well mixed. Divide mixture in half. Stir red food color into 1 half and green food color into other half. Spoon each mixture into decorating bag fitted with small writing tip; set aside.

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Red Food Color

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Milk

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Bowl

Heat oven to 375°F. Shape 1 half of the cookie dough into 3/4-inch balls.

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Cookie Dough

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Oven

Place balls 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. In small bowl, measure 2 tablespoons sugar. Dip bottom of glass into sugar, and use to flatten each ball into 1 1/2-inch round. Pipe colored mixture from decorating bags on each cookie in various holiday designs. Repeat with remaining half of dough.

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