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Pirate Flag Cookies

Servings 2

Ingredients

Cookie Ingredients

Icing Ingredients

Instructions

Cookie Directions

  • Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
  • Add eggs...Continue to mix.
  • Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
  • Sift the four, baking soda, and salt together.
  • Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
  • Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
  • Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
  • Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  • Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
  • Put flour out on the cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into
  • the batter. (if needed).
  • Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using the cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
  • Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  • Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
  • Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
  • Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely. (About 10 minutes).

Icing Directions

  • combine all ingredients except the colors into a standing mixing bowl.
  • mix on medium speed onto stiff peaks form
  • Split icing into two bowls
  • In one bowl, add the black gel and mix
  • Add more gel color to get the shade of black that you want
  • Scoop some white into one piping bag and some black into the second bag
  • Add 2 tbsp of water into the remaining black icing that is in the bowl.
  • Add the thinned black icing into the squeeze bottle

Decorating directions

  • Take the black edible marker and outline a a torn pirate flag
  • Take the black icing in the piping bag and outline the flag in icing
  • Fill in the black outline with the black icing in the squeeze bottle
  • Let dry for an hour
  • Using the white icing in the piping bag, pipe on the skull and crossbones
  • Take the black piping bag and add a black line to the side of the flag,
  • Add a black dot to the top of the flag.
  • Let dry for 4 hours.