Woody Sheriff Badge Cookies Recipe
Cookies in the shape of Sheriff Woody's badge
Ingredients
- Tray
- Waxed paper
- Batch of chilled sugar cookie dough (homemade or store bought)
- Flour
- Rolling pin
- 2 star-shaped cookie cutters, one slightly larger than the other*
- Spatula
- Baking sheets
- Wire cooling racks
- Yellow colored sugar
- Tube of decorator's icing
- Small round yellow candies (such as M&M's candies)
Instructions
- Cover the tray with waxed paper and set it aside.
- Roll out the sugar cookie dough between sheets of flour (for gluten-free try Bob's Red Mill flour used by Disney)-dusted waxed paper to a 1/4-inch thickness.
- Cut out an equal number of the two different sizes of stars.
- Use the spatula to transfer them to the tray.
- Place the tray in the refrigerator to chill the cookies while you heat the oven to the proper temperature.
- When the oven is heated, transfer the larger stars to a baking sheet and return the tray (with the smaller stars still on it) to the refrigerator.
- Bake the larger stars according to the recipe directions or until they just begin to brown around the edges.
- Allow them to cool on the baking sheet for about 1 minute and then transfer them to the wire cooling racks.
- Remove the smaller stars from the refrigerator and sprinkle yellow colored sugar on them.
- Transfer them to a baking sheet.
- Bake and cool them as you did the first batch.
- When the cookies are thoroughly cooled, squeeze a quarter size dollup of icing onto the center of each larger star and then gently pressing a smaller star down on top of it.
- Use small dabs of icing to secure round yellow candies atop the tips of the larger star.
Notes
Although many will enjoy the cookies you'll be making, there's a good chance you'll have some left over. Why not store them in a one of a kind cookie jar. Check out this cute yet practical Mickey Mouse cookie jar that will have your kids wanting to get their hands caught in the cookie jar!