HOCKEY SUGAR COOKIES RECIPES

Steps:

• Lightly grease cookie sheets. Let dough stand at room temperature about 15 minutes.
• Combine dough and flour in large bowl; knead until well blended.
• Divide dough into 24 pieces. Shape each piece into 6-inch-long rope. Place ropes on prepared cookie sheets; bend ropes about 1-3/4 inches from ends to form hockey stick shapes. Freeze about 10 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350°F Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. While cookies are still hot, place one mint on bottom part of each cookie for puck. Cool completely on cookie sheets.
• Decorate with icings as desired.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Mix flour, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg in medium bowl.
• Set aside.
• Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add egg and vanilla; mix well.
• Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until well mixed.
• Roll out dough on generously floured surface to 1/4-inch thickness.
• Cut into shapes with your favorite holiday cookie cutters.
• Place on ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges start to brown lightly.
• Cool on baking sheets 1 minute.
• Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
• For the Icing, mix confectioners' sugar and milk with wire whisk until well blended and smooth.
• Stir in additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, until desired consistency is reached.
• Makes 1 cup.
• See tips below to make holiday icing colors.
• To ice cookies, hold cookie by its edge and dip top of cookie into icing. (Or spoon the icing onto cookie using a teaspoon.)
• Place iced cookies on wire rack set over foil-covered baking sheet to dry. (The foil-covered baking sheet will catch drips.)
• To add decorative details to cookies, spoon tinted icing into resealable plastic bag.
• Snip off a tiny piece of the corner.
• Squeeze icing through hole in plastic bag to decorate cookies.
• If desired, Colored Sugar may be sprinkled onto freshly iced cookies.
• Each color combination below is enough to tint 1 cup icing.
• RED: Mix 1 teaspoon Red, 30 drops NEON Pink, 10 drops Yellow and 2 drops Blue into 1 batch of frosting.
• BROWN: Mix 6 drops Black, 25 drops Yellow and 18 drops NEON Purple into 1 batch of frosting.
• BLUE: Mix 4 drops NEON Pink and 8 drops NEON Blue into 1 batch of frosting.
• YELLOW: Mix 16 drops Yellow and 1 drop Red into 1 batch of frosting.
• BLUE: Mix 2 drops NEON Blue and 1 drop NEON Pink into 1 batch of frosting.
• GREEN: Mix 35 drops Green and 1 drop Black into 1 batch of frosting.