Santa Cookies
- 12 cup sugar
- 12 cup butter or 12 cup margarine, softened
- 12 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 12 cups all-purpose flour
- 14 teaspoon baking soda
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 14 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon red cinnamon candies
- 12 cup vanilla frosting, prepared
- 14 cup flaked coconut or 14 cup edible glitter
- 1 fruit leather (any red flavor)
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- In large bowl, beat sugar and butter with electric mixer on medium speed until blended.
- Beat in vanilla and egg.
- On low speed, beat in flour, baking soda and salt.
- Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
- For each cookie, flatten ball into about 1 1/2 inch round with fingers place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Lightly press 2 chocolate chips into upper third of dough round for eyes.
- Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
- Immediately press 1 cinnamon candy onto each cookie for nose.
- Remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks.
- Cool 15 minutes.
- Place frosting in small resealable food-storage plastic bag.
- Seal bag; cut off small corner of bag.
- Squeeze bag to pibe frosting along bottom edge of cookie and below cinnamon candy for beard and mustache.
- Lightly sprinkle coconut over frosting; gently press into frosting.
- Cut fruit snack into 2 inch-long pieces.
- Cut each piece diagonally in half to make 2 triangles.
- With small amount of frosting, attach fruit snack triangle on each cookie for hat.
- Fold top corner of each triangle over; pipe frosting "tassle" on pointed end of each "hat".
sugar, butter, vanilla, egg, flour, baking soda, salt, semisweet chocolate chips, red cinnamon, vanilla frosting, coconut, fruit
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/santa-cookies-197839 (may not work)