Relish these Santa faced oatmeal shortbread cookies frosted with Betty Crocker® decorating icing – a distinctive Christmas dessert.
Santa Face Shortbread Cookies
- Prep Time 55 min
- Total 1 hr 40 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 11
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 cans (6.4 oz each) Betty Crocker™ Easy Flow white decorating icing
- 6 miniature marshmallows, cut in half
- 1 tablespoon Betty Crocker™ red sugar
- 24 blue miniature candy-coated chocolate candies
- 12 red miniature candy-coated chocolate candies
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1In large bowl, beat butter, brown sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Stir in flour, oats and baking powder. Gather dough into ball. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate 30 minutes.
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Step2Heat oven to 350°F. On well-floured surface, roll dough 1/4 inch thick. Cut with 3- to 3 1/2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter. On ungreased cookie sheet, place cutouts 2 inches apart.
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Step3Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely.
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Step4Turn cookies so pointed ends are up. Using desired tip, pipe frosting on upper 1/3 of cookie. Place 1 marshmallow half at tip of each cookie for hat; sprinkle with red sugar. Using small dots of frosting, attach 2 blue candies on each cookie for eyes. Pipe small frosting mustache below eyes; place red candy in center for mouth. Pipe frosting on lower 1/3 of each cookie for beard. Store in single layer, loosely covered.
Nutrition
190
Calories
11g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
20g
Total Carbohydrate
9g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 190
- Calories from Fat
- 100
- Total Fat
- 11g
- 16%
- Saturated Fat
- 7g
- 33%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 25mg
- 9%
- Sodium
- 85mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 45mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 20g
- 7%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 9g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 6%
- 6%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 2%
- 2%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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