These leaf, scarecrow and pumpkin cookies may be all the decorations needed at the next fall festival.
They add color and design to a party table, as well as a sweet treat for any guest.
Leaf Sugar Cookies
Leaf cookies are both fun to make and eat. They allow the cook to play in icing and call it a masterpiece.
- Begin by making sugar cookie dough. It is easier to make the leaf cookies directly on the cookie sheet, rather then transfer them from the counter.
- Make balls of dough and then press them down on the cookie sheet until the cookie is about ¼ inch thick. If a leaf shaped cookie cutter is available, use it.
- If not mold the cookies to resemble footballs. Then elongate one end to look like the stem and bring the other end to a point, like the end of a leaf. Along the sides make notches and then round one side of each notch to resemble the blade of a leaf. This does not have to be perfect because most of the detail will come from the icing.
- Bake the cookies.
- Color buttercream icing, recipe below, in shades of yellows, oranges, greens and other colors of fall and choose which colors to put together for each leaf. There can be a system or just see how each one goes.
- Put a blob in the center of the cookie and spread it around. Add a darker color around the first color and then another color if needed. This is where the definition of the leaf is made.
- With a writing tip, pipe frosting down the center and to the sides creating the veins of the leaf. The icing will harden after a few hours.
Scarecrow Cookies
- Cut the cookies in to circles and bake. The scarecrow is made with icing.
- Tint the icing yellow, brown and orange and frost the cookie with the yellow icing. Draw a hat with the brown frosting, as well as the mouth. Mix a small portion of the yellow and brown together to create a straw color and then pipe it around the hat for straw hair. Draw a triangle for the nose using orange icing.
- For the eyes place chocolate chips in their place.
Pumpkin Cookies
- Use a pumpkin cookie cutter or follow the instructions to the Jack-o-Lantern cookie and omit the eyes and mouth.
- Frost the cookie with orange icing. Pipe brown icing around the pumpkin and use it to make the ridges up and down the pumpkin.
Buttercream Icing Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- ½ cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
Beat the ingredients together with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. The longer it mixes the whiter it will become.
Fall is a wonderful time for entertaining and cookies are the perfect way to say "Welcome."
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