Football Cookies

Football Cookies are festive, game-day treats shaped like footballs, perfect for sports parties or tailgates. Easy to customize with team colors or logos, Football Cookies are a crowd-pleasing snack that adds a spirited touch to any football-themed gathering or Super Bowl party.

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cookies, football

Total Time: 2

Servings:

Calories: 313kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

Cookie Ingredients

5 C flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 ½ C unsalted butter soft
2 C granulated sugar
4 eggs

Icing Ingredients

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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 all four eggs at one time...Continue to mix.
Add the vanilla. Continue mixing.
Sift the flour, baking powder, 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 wood cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into the batter. (if necessary).
Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using your cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Using a metal spatula move the cut cookie to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookie 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 in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes. (except your food coloring)
If the icing is not stiff enough, add 1/4 C powder sugar.
Pull out 3 bowls and begin to divide the icing.
Bowl #1, put 4 TBSP of icing in , and add several drops of black gel food coloring, stirring well until all of the color is blended.
Bowl #2, put 4 TBSP of icing, keeping it white.
Bowl #3: put the remaining icing, adding several drops of brown gel food coloring, stirring well until all of the color is blended.
Spoon each of the icings into individual frosting bags with a #5 tip.... twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.

Basic Directions for icing

Follow the colors and accent colors as displayed on each cookie.
First step for each cookie is to outline them .
Allow the icing outline at least 30 seconds to dry before filling the body of the cookie with the other icing*. ( After outlining these cookies, squeeze some of the remaining icing into a bowl, add 1 tsp of water, and mix well for consistency .) Please leave some icing in the frosting bag for additional accent work on each cookie. Spread it from the outlined part inwards to the center using a butter knife.

Cartoon Football Cookie

Outline the football in brown.
Using the thinner icing fill in the football. Allow to dry slightly.
Add two white thick lines at each end of the cookie resembling the two lines on the football.
Using the black icing add the different mouths and eye brows,
Place the two candy eyes under the eye brows.
Allow 5-10 hours to dry.

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