Reindeer Sugar Cookies
- Cookies:
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch salt
- 1 stick (1/4 lb.) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Decoration:
- 5 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 32 small pretzels, half plain and half yogurt-covered, cut to reindeer horn shape
- 32 M&M's Minis
- 32 white jelly beans, halved
- Preheat oven to 400u0b0F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Make cookies: Sift flour, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, beat butter, sugar, zest and vanilla until fluffy. Beat in yolk. Add flour mixture in 2 batches, alternating with lemon juice.
- Form balls using 2 Tbsp. dough for each. Arrange 2 inches apart on sheet; flatten each to a 3-inch round. Bake, 1 sheet at a time, for 8 minutes, until edges are golden. Let cool on a rack for 5 minutes. Cut each cookie into 4 wedges; cool completely.
- Decorate cookies: Melt chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Spread each cookie with chocolate, add 2 pretzel horns, 2 jelly bean eyes and an M&M nose to each. Dot each eye with chocolate. Let stand until chocolate is set, 10 minutes.
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Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/reindeer-sugar-cookies (may not work)