Cookies For Your Folks
Enjoy these fun, festive cookies with family and friends!
Prep time: 20 min.
Baking time: 12-17 min.
Decoration time: 20 min.
Difficulty: Easy
What you'll need:
- 1 bag M&M'S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies for the Holidays
- 2/3 cup flour
- 1 18-oz. roll store-bought refrigerated cookie dough
- 1 16-oz. can vanilla frosting
- Red, green and blue food coloring
- 1 tube brown decorating frosting
- Cookie sheet pan
- 18 8-inch lollipop sticks
- 4 resealable plastic bags
- Printable templates (or 3-inch star-shaped and snowman cookie cutters)
What to do:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line the cookie sheet pan with the parchment paper.
- Knead the flour into the cookie dough until smooth. Roll out the dough to a scant 1/4-inch thickness. Using the printable templates, cut out 9 stars and 9 snowmen, re-rolling the scraps if necessary. Transfer the star cookies to the prepared cookie sheet pan, pressing a lollipop stick halfway into each one.
- Bake for 12-17 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack, and let cool completely.
- Divide the frosting into quarters. Tint the quarters red, bright green and blue, leaving one white. Spoon the frostings into the resealable plastic bags; snip the corners and pipe outlines on the cookies, filling in the centers with frosting and spreading to make smooth.
- Attach M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies for the Holidays on the cookies’ tops. Pipe on dots, scarves and faces, and then add more candies.
Tip: To make the cookie holder, paint a box white (approximately 4 x 12 inches). Wrap a strand of holiday ribbon around the center, and fill the box with Styrofoam or a floral oasis. Press the lollipop stick into the Styrofoam. Then cover the surface with M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies for the Holidays.
Makes 18 cookies.
