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Super-Easy Cookies Score a Touchdown
Huddle Around the Biggest Game of the Year With These Football Player Cutouts 
(Family Features) - Call a timeout from the routine of chicken wings and nachos, and put these yummy, sporty sugar cookies on the field. Football Player Cookies decorated in team colors are the perfect treat for every "fan"atic.
As much fun to eat as they are to prepare, these homemade cookies will become the MVP of any party. Using a teddy bear cookie cutter, cut the dough, remove the bear's ears, and — score! — you instantly have a helmet-clad linebacker ready for action. If you're pressed for time, use refrigerated cookie dough as a substitute for homemade — it's ready to roll out and gets you back in the game in no time.
Ready-to-use icing and edible color markers make it fun, fast and easy for family and friends to add facial features, team colors and uniform numbers to baked cookies. Create an entire professional team, a legendary favorite or a hometown star. Everybody wins with these treats for the February football showdown.
Huddle around the sweet taste of these colorful sugar cookie cutouts and you'll be running back for more.
For other super ideas for the big game and to order cookie cutters, icing and edible markers, visit www.wilton.com.
Football Player CookiesMakes: about 2 dozen cookies 1-1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened 1 cup granulated sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 3 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Ready-to-Use Decorator Icing tinted in team colors with Icing Colors or Ready-to-Decorate Icing FoodWriter edible color markers Preheat oven to 400°F. In large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer. Beat in egg and vanilla and almond extracts. Combine flour and baking powder; add to butter mixture, 1 cup at time, mixing well after each addition. The dough will be very stiff; if necessary, blend last flour in by hand (if dough becomes too stiff, add water, a teaspoon at a time). Do not chill dough. Divide dough into two balls. On a floured surface, roll each ball into a circle approximately 12 inches in diameter and 1/4-inch thick. Dipping teddy bear cutter into flour before each use, cut dough into bears; cut off ears. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 6 to 7 minutes or until edges of cookies are lightly browned. Cool completely on wire rack before decorating. Decorate cooled cookies as desired using colored icings. Add facial features with edible food markers. Time-saving Tips: Substitute 2 tubes (16 ounces each) refrigerated sugar cookie dough for homemade cookie dough. Recipe and Photo Courtesy of Wilton Enterprises, Inc. FoodWriter is a registered trademark of Wilton Enterprises, Inc. SOURCE: Wilton Enterprises, Inc.  Recipes | Food Articles | Food Safety | Culinary Schools Copyright ©2008 culinary.net Before using materials from this site, please read our usage agreement.
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