September 15, 2012

Homemade Mother's® Animal Cookies

Another homemade favorite. Mother's® Animal Cookies :) Enjoy!


Ingredients: 

Cookies
2¼ cups flour
½ cup sugar
½ cup powdered sugar
⅛ tsp baking soda
⅛ tsp salt
12½ tbs cold unsalted butter cut in 12 pieces
1 egg
1 tbs vanilla
Frosting
powdered sugar
butter
vanilla
salt
half and half
pink food color

Directions:
Put flour, both sugars, cream of tartar, and salt in a food processor. Process for 5 seconds. Add butter and process until the butter is evenly distributed and resembles coarse meal. Stir egg and vanilla together in a small bowl. While the processor is running, pour the mixture into the tube until the dough comes together. Remove dough and knead a couple times. Divide dough into 2 slabs and refrigerate for 1-2 hours. Heat oven to 375˚F. Roll out dough to ⅛ inch thick. Cut out animal shapes and bake for 10-15 minutes. Prepare your favorite cookie frosting in white and pink. Frost half of the cookies pink and half of the cookies white and top with rainbow sprinkles.

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