Santa Face Sugar Cookies

• Vegetarian

• Refrigerated

  • 2 Egg yolks, large

• Baking & Spices

  • 2 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
  • 1 Gel-paste food coloring
  • 1 Recipe royal icing
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 3/4 cup Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract

• Dairy

  • 1 cup Butter, unsalted

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Description

Ingredients

• 2½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter
• ¾ cup sugar
• 2 large egg yolks
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 recipe Royal Icing
• Gel paste food coloring

Directions

• Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl; set aside. In mixer bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy, 3 min. Beat in yolks and vanilla. Add flour mixture and combine. Wrap dough in plastic wrap, chill 2 hour.
• Heat oven to 350°F. Roll dough to ¼ inch thick on a floured surface. Cut using a 2-by-3½-inch raindrop cutter to cut 18 cookies. Use a 1½-inch round cutter to cut 18 cookies. Place drops and circles on separate baking sheets. Cut each circle in half and separate. (Dough scraps can be re-rolled up to 2 times.)Bake cookies until just golden, about 15 min for drops, about 10 min for cut circles. Cool completely.
• Color ⅔ cup Royal Icing red and ¼ cup each pink and blue and place in pastry bags with tips. Fill another pastry bag with 1¼ cup white icing.
• Ice tops of drop cookies with red icing and bottoms and all half-circles with white icing. Allow icing to set, about 30 min. Adhere half circles to drop cookies with icing to form a mustache. Pipe hat trim and tip with white icing. Pipe eyes and nose with blue and pink icing. Allow icing to set completely, at least 3 hrs.

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