These Mickey Sandwich Cookies are really good anytime of the year. They are cute and so easy to make!
Ingredients
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 1 C sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp almond
- 2 1/2 C flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- red and green food coloring
- 1 container of vanilla frosting divided into 2 bowls
- cookie sheet (aff) fitted with parchment paper
- Mini Mickey Mouse cookie cutter
- medium circle cookie cutter (aff)
- 2 disposable piping bags
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and cover a cookie sheet (aff) with parchment paper.
- Using a standing mixer (aff), cream butter and sugar until creamed together and combined.
- Beat in egg, vanilla, and almond extract.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour and baking powder and use a whisk and mix to combined.
- Split the dough in half
- Using 1 half of the dough, mix red food coloring into the cookie dough and mix until combined
- Repeat step with the other dough using the green food coloring
- Roll out the red dough out on a lightly floured surface to a rectangle shape about 1/2 inch thick
- Using the circle cookie cutter (aff), cut the out 10 circles
- Using 5 circles, take the mini mickey cookie cutter, and cut out a mickey head
- Repeat steps with the green cookie dough
- Place cookie onto the cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes
- Using two bowls, split the frosting into each bowl
- Add some red food dye into one bowl and green into the other and mix until combined
- Scoop the red frosting into one piping bag and the green frosting into the second piping bag
- Once cookies have been baked and cooled, take a solid red cookie and a mickey head red cookie and pipe green frosting onto the solid cookie.
- Smooth the frosting out with a butter knife and place the mickey head cookie on top.
- Repeat steps with remaining cookies.
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