How To Make Frosted Animal Cookies
Fun comes in different shapes and sizes like these animal cookies, frosted with a simple icing and decorated with sprinkles for a treat everyone will love.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Cookies:
- 2½cupsall-purpose flour
- 1tspbaking powder
- ½tspsalt
- 1cupunsalted butter,softened
- ½cupgranulated sugar
- ½cuppowdered sugar
- 1large egg
- 1½tspvanilla extract
- ¼tspalmond extract
- rainbow nonpareil sprinkles
For Icing:
- 1½cupspowdered sugar
- ¼tspvanilla extract
- 4tbsphalf and half,plus more as needed
- pink food coloring
Instructions
Cookie Dough:
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In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
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In the bowl of an electric stand mixer cream together butter, granulated sugar, and powdered sugar until well combined. Mix in egg, vanilla extract, and almond extract.
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With the mixer set on low speed, slowly add in the flour mixture and mix until combined. Divide mixture into 2 equal portions, then shape each portion into a smooth 6-inch disk.
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Wrap with plastic wrap and chill for 1½ hours, or until firm. Alternatively, chill overnight then let rest on the counter for about 5 minutes if the dough is too firm to roll.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F during the last 10 minutes of chilling.
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Dust a clean work surface with flour then place one disk of dough on a floured surface. Dust top lightly with flour, and roll out to ¼-inch thickness. Leave the other dough disk chilled.
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Cut into mini animal shapes then use an offset spatula to transfer them to a baking sheet lined with a silicone liner or parchment paper. Leave about ¾-inch between cookies.
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Bake in preheated oven for about 7 to 11 minutes until set. Meanwhile gather scraps of dough, mash, and shape into smooth disk again and refrigerate.
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Remove from oven and cool several minutes on baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely. Repeat with remaining disk of dough.
Icing:
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In a medium mixing bowl whisk together powdered sugar, vanilla, and enough half and half or cream to reach a medium consistency.
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Divide mixture evenly among two bowls, tint one of them with pink coloring, and leave the other white.
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Spread over cookies and immediately sprinkle with sprinkles after frosting each one. Let rest until glaze has set.
Nutrition
- Calories: 32.78kcal
- Fat: 1.53g
- Saturated Fat: 0.95g
- Trans Fat: 0.06g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 0.40g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.07g
- Carbohydrates: 4.49g
- Fiber: 0.06g
- Sugar: 2.61g
- Protein: 0.33g
- Cholesterol: 5.36mg
- Sodium: 12.76mg
- Calcium: 4.12mg
- Potassium: 4.27mg
- Iron: 0.12mg
- Vitamin A: 13.01µg
- Vitamin C: 0.00mg
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