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FOOTBALL GAME SUGAR COOKIES

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Equipment

  • Mixing bowls
  • Parchment paper
  • cookie sheet

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 1 ½ cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • White frosting
  • Nonpareils sprinkles
  • Green cookie icing
  • Yellow cookie icing

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • Line a baking sheet with parchment and set aside.
  • Whisk together flour, baking soda, and baking powder a medium mixing bowl .
    dry ingrediuents of sugar cookie recipe
  • In a larger mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until fully incorporated.
    sugar cookie mixture and butter
  • Add egg and vanilla and mix.
    sugar cookie dough mixed with raw egg
  • Slowly add the flour mixture and butter mixture and mix.
    sugar cookie dough mix in a bowl
  • Using a cookie scoop, place scoops of dough on a cookie sheet leaving 1 inch of space between cookies.
    cookie scoop putting sugar cookie dough onto a baking sheet
  • Gently press dough down so with your hands or a small glass so that it will bake in a flat round shape.
    woman's hand pressing sugar cookie dough onto a cookie sheet
  • Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool cookies on a cooling rack.
    sugar cookies pressed on a baking sheet
  • Once the cookies are fully cool, frost half the cookie with white frosting.
    hand holding a sugar cookie half frosted with white frosting
  • Pour sprinkles into a small bowl then dip the frosted half of the cookie in multi-color sprinkles to become the crowd watching the game.
    frosted sugar cookie being dunked into sprinkles
  • Decorate the other half of the cookie with the green icing to represent the football field.
    almost completely decorate football stadium cookies
  • Once the green icing has been sitting for 10 minutes, use the yellow icing to create a goal post.
    decorated football cookies on a baking rack