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TREE COOKIES

Grinch Christmas

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These Grinch Christmas Tree Cookies are such a fun Christmas cookie! They’re adorable and delicious and such a fun cookie to enjoy this Christmas season.

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ingredients

– Unsalted butter  – Half and half – Vanilla extract – Eggs – All purpose flour – Powdered sugar – Red candy melts

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Cream together the sugar and butter until it’s nice and fluffy. Then add in the half and half, vanilla and eggs and stir until just combined.

step 1

Then add in all the dry ingredients, and the food coloring. Mix until you have a nice and thick cookie dough. Cover the dough and chill it in the fridge for 1 hour.

step 2

Roll out the cookie dough on a lightly floured surface. Then cut the dough out into Christmas trees using a Christmas tree cookie cutter. 

step 3

Bend the top of the cookie tree down to make it like a curl. Place the cookies onto a lined cookie sheet. Bake the cookies for 9 minutes. Let the cookies cool completely.

step 4

Make the glaze by whisking together the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla. then use a spoon to add some snowy glaze onto the tips of the cookies.

step 5

Melt the candy melts in the microwave until you can stir them smooth, then add them to a small bag, and snip off the end.

step 6

Then use them to draw small hearts onto the cookies. Let it cool and harden, then enjoy the cookies!

step 7

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