It’s Day 4 with Skip to my Lou.
Cindy, from Skip to my Lou, has a bit of everything on her blog and everything is so neat! She also hosts a fabulous linky party each week and it too is filled with great stuff. I am excited to have her here today to share her so-cute-it-hurts cookie. : )
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Hello Everyone, I’m Cindy and I am thrilled to be here sharing a fun cookie for the holidays! I hope you will come visit me at Skip to my Lou for some crafty tutorials, handmade gift ideas, teacher appreciation ideas, sewing patterns and recipes!
Reindeer Sugar Cookies
First, mix up your favorite cookie dough. I love this sugar cookie recipe. It does spread a bit, but I love a soft sugar cookie. My bests tricks for rolling out sugar cookie dough are to use rolling pin rings and to roll the dough between wax paper. This way you don’t have to use flour which can make the dough tough. Just keep lifting up the wax paper and replacing down on the dough to keep the dough spreading.
I used a candy corn cookie cutter to cut out the reindeer heads.
Place shapes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Place the pan in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes. This helps keep the cookies from spreading too much.
Bake cookies.
I used a royal icing to frost these cookies. Here is a download for the Royal Icing recipe. Mix the icing into two consistencies; a thick to pipe and a thin to flood.
With a pastry bag fitted with a number 2 or 3 round tip, pipe all the way around the outside edge of the cookie.
Next, place the thin frosting in a squeeze bottle and flood the area inside the piping.
Use a toothpick or a sucker stick to work the frosting to the edges and fill in areas.
The frosting will settle and become very smooth.
While frosting is still wet add pretzel antlers, a nose and eyes. If you like a large nose, use a red gumball.
Or if you prefer a smaller nose a red sixlet works great!
Merry Christmas everyone!
It is the gift giving time of the year. If you are looking for homemade gift ideas, from edible gifts to sewn gifts you might enjoy browsing my Handmade Gift Guide!
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Thanks Cindy! And thanks for the link to the homemade gift ideas above. It is that time of year.
Find Cindy’s blog here.
Take care.
♥amy c
