Poinsettia Cookies

Name: Poinsettia Cookies
Prep time: 1 h 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 25 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 48
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 177 milliliters butter, softened; 237 milliliters confectioners sugar, sifted; 85 grams package cream cheese, softened; 1 egg; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon red food coloring; 237 milliliters red decorator sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 teaspoons water; 158 milliliters white sugar; 1 drop yellow food coloring

Poinsettia Cookies is a vegetarian recipe with 48 servings. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 89 calories, 1g of protein, and 4g of fat. Head to the store and pick up vanillan extract, decorator sugar, sugar, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 25 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line baking sheets with aluminum foil or parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Aluminum Foil

Baking Sheet

Oven

In a large bowl, cream together the butter, sugar and cream cheese until light and fluffy using an electric mixer.

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Cream Cheese

Butter

Cream

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add egg and vanilla; mix until well blended. Stir in flour by hand using a sturdy spoon while adding enough red food coloring to make the dough turn a pretty red color.

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Red Food Color

Vanilla

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Egg

Roll the balls in the red decorator sugar and place them on the prepared cookie sheets, spacing 1 inch apart. Refrigerate the cookies on their cookie sheets until firm, about 10 minutes.

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Sugar

Roll

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Baking Sheet

When the cookies are firm, make three slices across each cookie to make 6 slices like a pie, cutting only about 2/3 of the way through the cookie balls.

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Bake in the preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes, until cookies appear dry. Cool on the cookie sheets, then peel away from the aluminum foil.

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Aluminum Foil

Baking Sheet

Oven

Make the icing for the cookies by mixing the confectioners' sugar and water until it reaches a piping consistency.

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Powdered Sugar

Icing

Water

Add a drop of yellow food coloring. Put icing into a pastry bag or resealable bag and cut a small piece off of the corner. Pipe small dots onto the center of the cookies. Allow icing to dry before storing cookies in an airtight container at room temperature. Cookies can be stored for up to two weeks.

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Yellow Food Color

Icing

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Pastry Bag