Mickey’s Holly Leaf Christmas Cookies

Holly always reminds me of Christmas and these delicious Holly Leaf Christmas Cookies are perfect for the season. Disney Family provides a great recipe that allows you to bring them to your house this season.

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Ingredients

• Batch of sugar cookie dough*
• Scissors
• Green food coloring
• Disposable food preparation gloves (for kneading food coloring into the dough)
• Flour
• Wax paper
• Rolling pin
• Kitchen knife
• Spatula
• Baking sheet
• Wire cooling rack
• Confectioners’ sugar
• Water
• Small Bowl
• Pastry brush
• Green colored sugar
• Small tube decorating icing
• Small chocolate candies with red shells, 2 sizes (such as M&M’s and M&M’s Minis)

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Directions

1.  Print the template and cut out the leaf shape. Disney Family

2. Knead green food coloring into the dough

3. Working on a flour-dusted sheet of wax paper, roll out the plain dough 1/4 inch thick. Use the template and a kitchen knife to cut holly leaf shapes from the dough. Then use the knife to score a center vein in each leaf.

4. Transfer the cookies to a baking sheet and bake them according to the recipe directions. Allow the baked cookies to cool briefly on the baking sheet before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.

5. Make a glaze by mixing 1/4 cup confectioners sugar and 2 to 3 teaspoons water in a small bowl. Brush a little glaze on the center of each cookie leaf and sprinkle on a pinch of green colored sugar.

6. Add a holly berry Mickey to the base of each leaf by using decorating icing to stick on a red-shelled chocolate candy topped by a pair of smaller red-shelled chocolate candies.

A quick and easy way to add some Disney magic to your holiday celebration this year.

Source: Disney Family