The young and young at heart can't resist sugar cookies decorated to resemble jolly old St. Nick!
Santa Cookies
- Prep Time 1 hr 45 min
- Total 1 hr 45 min
- Servings 30
- Ingredients 12
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon red cinnamon candies
- 1/2 cup fluffy white whipped ready-to-spread frosting (from 12-oz container)
- 1/4 cup flaked coconut or edible glitter
- 1 roll (0.75 oz) chewy fruit snack in 3-foot rolls (any red flavor)

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. 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.
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Step2Shape 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 each dough round for eyes.
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Step3Bake 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.
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Step4Place frosting in small resealable food-storage plastic bag. Seal bag; cut off small corner of bag. Squeeze bag to pipe frosting along bottom edge of cookie and above cinnamon candy for beard. Lightly sprinkle coconut over frosting; gently press into frosting.
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Step5Cut 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."
Nutrition
90
Calories
4 1/2g
Total Fat
0g
Protein
12g
Total Carbohydrate
7g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 90
- Calories from Fat
- 40
- Total Fat
- 4 1/2g
- 7%
- Saturated Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 13%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 15mg
- 5%
- Sodium
- 60mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 20mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 12g
- 4%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 7g
- Protein
- 0g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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