Happy Little Football Sugar Cookies
Delightfully cute, delectable decorated football sugar cookies; perfect for Super Bowl parties.
Ingredients
- 1 (17.4-ounce) package Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix ¹
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 large egg
- ⅓ cup butter, melted
- Royal Icing
- Americolor Soft Gel Paste Chocolate Brown
- Royal Icing Eyes
- Black Food Marker
Instructions
- Make sugar cookie dough per sugar cookie mix instructions or using your favorite cutout sugar cookie recipe.
- Roll out dough. Using a football cookie cutter, cut about ¼” thick football cookies. Bake per sugar cookie mix instructions. Allow baked cookies to cool completely.
- Outline and flood football sugar cookies with 8-second chocolate brown royal icing.
- Immediately add royal icing eyes; you can make these ahead of time, purchase them, or pipe them directly onto the football cookies (if piping eyes directly onto football cookies wait 10 minutes for brown icing to dry a bit before doing so).²
- Using a thick white royal icing (you want it to hold its shape) pipe white lines onto footballs.
- Wait 24 hours for icing to dry completely, then using a black food marker draw smiling faces onto cookies. Eat & Enjoy!
Notes
Store Happy Little Football Sugar Cookies in an airtight container; will keep 4+ days.
¹ Happy Little Football Sugar Cookies would also be fabulous using your favorite cutout sugar cookie recipe.
² You could skip the royal icing eyes and draw on eyes using the black food marker.
