Mickey Shaped Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Method
Sugar Cookie Dough
- Heat oven to 375*F.
- Stir flour into dry cookie mix in a medium bowl. Add melted butter and egg.
- Mix until a soft dough ball forms.
- Mix in food coloring until the orange is the desired color.
- Roll dough on floured surface until 1/4 inch thick.
- Cut with cookie cutter, place one inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- To make the stem, be sure to cut a small piece of spare dough and place gently in between the ears.
- Using a toothpick or other pointed object, draw lines gently on the cookie to resemble a pumpkin.
- Bake for 5-8 minutes until the edges are light golden brown.
- Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pan. Place on cooling rack once removed.
- In the mean time, put together the icing.
- Once cookies are cool, commence with icing the Mickey heads however you desire.
- The first step is to outline and fill in the stem and add the vines.
- Next, it's time to put on the face.
- I found that putting the nose on first, a horizontal oval worked best for me.
- Next, I would draw the eyes, whatever shape you want to make them is great. I found comma's frontward and backward worked best.
- Finally, I found a simple smile worked best.
- Enjoy!
Icing
- Using either a spoon or hand mixer, beat all of the icing ingredients together until smooth. The icing should be drizzle down smoothly but not be too runny.
- Separate into bowls and add food coloring. Mix until it reaches the desired color.
- Place in a piping bag or Ziploc bag. I found using a Ziploc and frosting tip worked perfectly fine.
