THE couple that makes the season bright. Invite these sweethearts to your holiday party and watch the fun begin. Santa and Mrs. Claus are cut from Roll-Out Cookie Dough and decorated with quick-drying royal icing.
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Makes: Each cookie serves 1.
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instructions
Prepare cookie recipe, tint copper. Roll out and cut cookies using gingerbread boy and girl cutters from set. Bake and cool following recipe directions.
Decorate the following in full-strength royal icing on a waxed paper-covered board.
For Santa, outline and pipe in tip 4 jacket and hat in red, boots in black. Add tip 2 dot nose in copper, dot mouth and outline eyes in black. Add tip 3 swirl hair, beard and fur trim in white. Add tip 3 dot pompom and pull-out moustache in white. Pipe tip 3 outline belt in black and buckle in yellow.
For Mrs. Claus, outline and pipe in tip 4 dress in red. Outline and pipe in tip 4 apron and shoes in white. Add tip 2 dot nose in copper, dot eyes and outline mouth in black. Add tip 3 swirl hair in white.
*Combine red-red and Christmas red for red shade shown.