Cookies For Santa Sundae Food

CHOCOLATE SUNDAE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cookies:.
• Mix together flour, baking soda, and salt, set aside.
• With your mixer, mix brown sugar and shortening.
• Blend in egg. Beat well, then stir in 1/2 of the dry ingredients.
• Add Marachino juice and milk.
• Stir in the rest of dry ingredients, and mix well.
• Blend in melted unsweetened chocolate (you can use the kind that are already melted, or substitute 6 T. of cocoa and 2 T. oil), chopped cherries, and chopped walnuts.
• Drop by spoonfuls on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes.
• While cookies are baking cut large marshmallows in half.
• Place the cut side of the marshmallow down on hot cookies when they come out of the oven, so they will stick.
• Let cool.
• Frost cookies, then and put a nut on top.
• Buttercream Chocolate Frosting:
• Beat cocoa, margarine, milk and vanilla well. Add in confectionary sugar to desired consistency.

SANTA SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl; set aside. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla and almond extracts; mix well. Gradually add flour mixture, beating on low speed after each addition until well blended. Divide dough into 3 portions; wrap each tightly in plastic wrap. Refrigerate dough 2 hours or until thoroughly chilled and firm enough to handle.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray baking sheets and 5-inch Santa face cookie cutter with cooking spray; set aside. Roll out 1 portion of dough to 1/4-inch thickness on floured surface with floured rolling pin. Cut out cookies with prepared cutter. Transfer with metal spatula to baking sheet, placing 1 inch apart. Repeat with remaining dough portions, spraying cutter with additional cooking spray as needed.
• Bake 7 to 10 minutes or until edges of cookies are browned lightly. Cool on baking sheet 1 minute before removing cookies and placing on wire racks to cool completely.
• Use red icing to fill in the hat, leaving the tip of the hat blank. Use white icing to fill in the tip of the hat, the brim of the hat, the beard and to make 2 dots in the center of the face for the eyes. Place a red candy centered between the eyes at the top of the beard for the nose and a mini morsel on each white dot to make eyes. Top beard with Reddi-wip® just before serving.