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Santa Claus Cookies Recipe
Super cute Santa Cookies that taste yummy and delight children and the young at heart.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 2 tbsp. milk
- 1 tsp. lemon peel grated or a bit more ;)
- 1 egg
- 2 cups white all purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- Creamy Frosting I just buy any white creamy frosting that's not thin
- mini marshmallows
- Red sugar sprinkles
- mini semi sweet chocolate chips or you can use currants
- Red cinnamon candies for Santa's nose
- shredded coconut
- Pam
Instructions
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Mix granulated sugar, shortening and milk. Grate lemon peel and add to mix. Add your egg, then mix. In another bowl measure dry ingredients then add to mixed sugar bowl. Heat oven to 400 degrees.
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Shape mixture into small dough 1-1/4 inch balls. Place about 2 inches apart on a non stick baking sheet.
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Flatten each to about 2-1/4 inch. (To flatten I use Pam sprayed on the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar)
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Bake until edges are light brown 8-10 minutes.
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Makes about 1-1/2 Dozen
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When cooled ice cookies and decorate their faces. I like to make the hats first and sprinkle off excess red sugar. Then add nose, eyes and mini marshmallow and add beard.
Recipe Notes
Optionally you can add a Popsicle Stick inserted to the cookie balls half way up and finish cookies per directions.
Time varies by if you have little hands helping you decorate them or do it yourself. Either way these don't take long.
Adapted from General Mills, Inc. Betty Crocker's Christmas Cookbook 1988