Cinnamon Cardinal Cookies
Ingrediënten
- ½ cup butter softened
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon or cardamom
- ⅓ cup whipping cream
- 48 miniature chocolate chips
- Red black and yellow decorating sugar crystals
Instructies
- In large bowl, beat butter and brown sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy; stir in vanilla.
- In small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda and cinnamon.
- On low speed, beat flour mixture into butter mixture alternately with whipping cream.
- Divide dough in half; wrap in plastic wrap.
- Refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes.
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Lightly grease 2 large cookie sheets with shortening or cooking spray.
- On lightly floured surface, roll one portion of dough until about ⅛ inch thick.
- Cut with 3-inch floured cardinal-shaped cookie cutter.
- On cookie sheets, place cutouts 2 inches apart.
- Repeat with second portion of dough.
- Place chocolate chip on each bird for eye.
- Sprinkle top of back, crown, tail and wing of each bird with red sugar crystals; neck and eye with black sugar crystals; and beak with yellow sugar crystals.
- Leave bottom breast of bird without sugar.
- Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until light brown and set.
- Remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
Kitchen Secrets
If you don’t have a cardinal-shaped cookie cutter, trace the outline of a cardinal from a coloring book or bird book onto waxed paper; or find one online, print it and cut it out. Place the pattern on the dough, and use a small paring knife to cut around it.Nutritional Information
Calories: 50 kcal
