Description
These festive Grinch-themed Christmas Tree cookies are the perfect addition to your holiday spread! Enjoy these tasty treats for your next party!
Ingredients
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- 1 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons half and half or your favorite cookie creamer
- 1 teaspon vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Neon green food coloring
- 1 cup red candy melts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the half and half, vanilla and the eggs until well combined.
- Next add in the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Squeeze in some of the neon green food coloringand mix.
- If you need more green add more and mix again until desired grinchy green shade.
- Mix until a thick dough forms.
- Chill for 1 hour in fridge.
- On a floured surface, roll half of the dough out to 1/4-inch thickness.
- Using a Christmas tree cutter cut out your cookies.
- Shape the top of the tree into a little curl.
- Place cookies about an inch apart on the prepared baking sheets.
- Bake for about 7-9 minutes until cookies are just set and starting to turn light brown around the edges.
- Let cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Mix 1 cup of powdered sugar with ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract and stir to make a thick glaze. If it is not wet enough add milk or water ½ teaspoon at a time until you have a thick glaze.
- Put a little glaze on the top of the tree and the tips and let harden.
- Meanwhile in a microwave safe bowl melt the red candy melts in 30 second increments until smooth and melted.
- Transfer the red chocolate to a ziploc bag and snip off a tiny corner.
- Pipe your red hearts on the trees.
- Let the chocolate cool and serve!!