FOOTBALL COOKIE IMAGES RECIPES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in flour until well blended. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH FLOUR.) Reshape into log. If too soft to cut into slices, refrigerate up to 30 minutes.
• Cut dough into 32 (1/4-inch) slices. With floured fingers, shape each dough slice to form football. On ungreased cookie sheets, place slices 2 inches apart.
• Bake 7 to 11 minutes or until set and golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
• Spread frosting over cookies. With white decorating gel, draw laces on each football.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. In another large bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg, milk, and vanilla and beat until combined, then add flour mixture gradually until totally combined. Shape into a disk and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate 1 hour. When ready to roll, preheat oven to 350º and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Lightly flour a clean work surface and roll out dough until 1/8” thick. Cut out shapes with a football shape cookie cutter and transfer to prepared baking sheets. Freeze 10 minutes (so your shapes hold while baking!). Bake cookies until edges are lightly golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool completely.  Meanwhile, make icing: In a medium bowl stir together powdered sugar, corn syrup, milk, and vanilla. Measure out 1/2 cup of icing and set aside.  To remaining icing, add food coloring and stir until desired color is reached. Place about 1/3 of brown icing in a piping bag fitted with a small round tip and outline cookies with icing.  To remaining brown icing, add a teaspoon of milk at a time until icing is a good consistency to flood. Add icing to another piping bag fitted with a small round tip. Fill in cookies with thinner icing. Sprinkle cookies with sanding sugar while still wet.  Transfer white icing to a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip and pipe laces onto footballs. If cookies are still to wet to pipe laces on you can place cookies in freezer for 15 to minutes to help harden, then pipe laces.