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1
cup butter, softened
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1/2
cup sugar
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1
tablespoon milk
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1
teaspoon vanilla
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2 1/4
cups all-purpose flour
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Green paste food coloring
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1
recipe Powdered Sugar Icing
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Decorative candies
1. In a large bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar. Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in milk and vanilla until combined. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Using a wooden spoon, stir in any remaining flour. Remove 1/2 cup of the dough. Tint the remaining dough with green food coloring.
2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. For each cookie, use the green dough to shape ten 1/2-inch balls. On an ungreased cookie sheet, arrange balls in a row of four, topped by a row of three, then two, then one on top. As you arrange the balls, gently press them into each other. Use the plain dough to make a 3/4-inch ball and place it at the bottom of the tree for a trunk. Repeat with the remaining dough, leaving 2 inches between cookies on cookie sheet.
3. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are light brown. Cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes. Carefully transfer cookies to a wire rack; let cool.
4. Drizzle Powdered Sugar Icing back and forth over cookies to look like strings for lights. Add decorative candies to icing for lights. Let stand until icing sets.
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4
cups powdered sugar
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1
teaspoon vanilla
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3
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tablespoons milk
In a medium bowl stir together powdered sugar, vanilla, and enough milk (3 to 4 tablespoons) to make drizzling consistency.
- Calories 141,
- Protein (gm) 1,
- Carbohydrate (gm) 23,
- Fat, total (gm) 5,
- Cholesterol (mg) 14,
- Saturated fat (gm) 3,
- Monosaturated fat (gm) 1,
- Sugar, total (gm) 16,
- Vitamin A (IU) 146,
- Thiamin (mg) 0,
- Riboflavin (mg) 0,
- Niacin (mg) 0,
- Folate (µg) 16,
- Sodium (mg) 37,
- Potassium (mg) 13,
- Iron (DV %) 0,
- Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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They're super cute and my kids loved making them. We had a green ball generating factory going with my littlest one in charge of rolling the trunks. :) Problems-- only made 16 trees + I cooked for 17 minutes and they still seemed undercooked.
12/7/2011 01:57:18 PM Report AbuseDoubled the recipe as suggested. These took forever to assemble. I used a scooper the size i use for most drop cookies, then i cut in into 8 sections - rolled into little balls for the tree. If they (balls) were much larger the cookies looked too big. Had some white left over so we made a wreath with it and used some of the green to make a bow. Could make stockings, or a bell or whatever creative holiday decoration you can think of. Will upload a photo of the kids creations from this dough.
12/7/2011 01:51:32 PM Report AbuseMade these with my daughter ad my neice who are both 6 years old. This was a great recipe for them not too hard or time consuming, but we only woulnd up with 20 cookies total. I would do this again for sure, but would double the recipe for sure.
12/3/2011 04:53:30 PM Report Abuse