Santa-on-a-Stick Cookies

Name: Santa-on-a-Stick Cookies
Prep time: 2 h 15 min
Cook time: 2 h 15 min
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 14
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons almond extract; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 118 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 14 craft sticks (flat wooden sticks with round ends); 14 servings Small round candies or chocolate chips; 1 egg; 532 milliliters Gold Medal® all-purpose flour; 237 milliliters granulated sugar; 14 servings Miniature marshmallows; 2 Tbsps milk; 0 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting

Santa-on-a-Stick Cookies requires about 2 hours and 15 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 14. One portion of this dish contains roughly 9g of protein, 15g of fat, and a total of 315 calories. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have rich & creamy vanilla frosting, flour, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat granulated sugar, butter, milk, almond extract and egg with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon, until well blended. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt until dough forms.

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Granulated Sugar

Almond Extract

Baking Powder

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Salt

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Oven

Shape dough by 2 tablespoonfuls into 1 1/2-inch balls.

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Dough

Remove about 1/2-inch piece of dough from each. On ungreased cookie sheets, place larger balls about 3 inches apart. Flatten to 1/2-inch thickness with floured bottom of glass. Insert wooden stick into side of each. Shape small pieces of dough into triangles; press and flatten onto rounds opposite sticks to form hats.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Insert candies into cookies for eyes, nose and mouth. Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.

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Candy

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Tint about 1/4 cup frosting with red food color. Frost hats; sprinkle with colored sugar.

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Red Food Color

Decorating Sugar

Frosting

Add miniature marshmallows to tips of hats. Use additional frosting and candies, granulated sugar and coconut for brims of hats. Use about 1/4 cup white frosting and additional coconut for beards.

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Mini Marshmallows