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Santa Claus Sugar Cookies

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Santa Claus Sugar Cookies
  • Prep 2 hr 0 min
  • Total 2 hr 30 min
  • Ingredients 7
  • Servings 28
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Create the big fella with a few slices of Pillsbury™ refrigerated cookie dough.
By Pillsbury Kitchens
Updated Sep 21, 2020

Ingredients

  • 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
  • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons red decorator sugar crystals
  • 1 1/4 cups vanilla creamy ready-to-spread frosting (from 1-lb container)
  • 1/2 teaspoon red paste icing color (not liquid food color)
  • 16 miniature marshmallows, cut in half crosswise
  • Assorted candies

Steps

  • 1
    In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in flour until well blended. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH FLOUR.) Reshape into log. If too soft to cut into slices, refrigerate up to 30 minutes.
  • 2
    Heat oven to 350°F. Cut dough into 28 (1/4-inch) slices, reshaping each into a round. For each cookie, cut narrow strips from opposite sides of slice. On ungreased cookie sheet, place larger piece. Shape dough strips into balls; roll in sugar crystals. Place ball of dough on each cut side, 2/3 of the way down, on inside edge of cookie to form cheeks; press gently so balls almost touch. Repeat with remaining slices, placing 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Repeat with remaining dough.
  • 3
    Bake 7 to 11 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 10 minutes.
  • 4
    In small bowl, place 1/2 cup of the frosting. Stir in icing color until well blended. Frost top of each cookie with red frosting for hat. Add marshmallow half, cut side down, for tassel on hat.
  • 5
    Place remaining frosting in decorating bag fitted with writing tip, or in small resealable food-storage plastic bag with small hole cut in 1 corner of bag. Pipe white frosting around remaining cookie edge for beard and across bottom of hat. Attach candies with frosting for eyes, nose and mouth. Pipe white frosting for mustache.

Nutrition Information

130 Calories, 6g Total Fat, 0g Protein, 19g Total Carbohydrate, 14g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Undecorated Frosted Cookie
Calories
130
Calories from Fat
50
Total Fat
6g
9%
Saturated Fat
1 1/2g
8%
Trans Fat
2g
Cholesterol
5mg
2%
Sodium
75mg
3%
Potassium
5mg
0%
Total Carbohydrate
19g
6%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
14g
Protein
0g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
0%
0%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0%
0%
Iron
0%
0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
1
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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