Holiday cookie recipes have different variations. One of them is the Santa face cookies for the coming Christmas. Make Santa visit your table with these charmingly delightful munch. Here are the ingredients that you need to make this variation of holiday cookie recipes. Prepare a cup of butter; half cup confectioner’s and brown sugar; two tablespoons milk; a teaspoon of vanilla extract; two and a half cups flour, set aside some for rolling; food coloring in red; packed icing mix and pastel-colored candy dots.
Start preheating the oven at 375 degrees. In a bowl, put the butter and cream until fluffy and nice. Steadily beat the sugars until fluffy and light. Add vanilla, milk and flour and mix them thoroughly. Cool dough for an hour or two. Prepare the dough and refrigerate for use. Roll dough to one fourth inch width on an evenly floured surface. Get a Santa-shaped cookie cutter and dip in flour and cut Santa faces. Put the cookies on ungreased cookie sheet and bake until golden brown. Allow to cool completely.
Get ready with the icing based on the directions. Redden the half of icing with the other half in original color. Pipe red icing Santa cap on every cookie followed by white icing for the eyes, beard and cap pompom. Put a candy dots at the middle of the white eyes. Before serving, allow the icing to set. This recipe makes up to 24 cookie pieces.
For more holiday cookie recipes, try easy snowman cookies which are easy to prepare and make wonderful centerpieces for party tables. You will need a pack of butter cookies; one and one fourth melted candy coating in white; small chocolate chips; halved pretzel sticks; M&M’s miniature bits and red and orange frosting or decorating gel.
Dip the cookies in white candy coating and shake off the excess with a tong. Put the cookies in waxed paper. To decorate them, put two chocolate chips on single end of the cookies for the eyes. Add miniature bits for buttons down middle. For the arms, dip the ends of two halved pretzel stick in coating and attach one to every side. Allow to stand until hardened and pipe scarf and nose with frosting or gel. Holiday cookie recipes like these are fun to make. So start baking now!