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Mickey Mouse Nutcracker Sugar Cookies Recipe
A simple Mickey Mouse Sugar Cookie Nutcracker to make for a Nutcracker Party or Family Movie Night.
Course
Cookies, Party Food
Cuisine
Party
Keyword
Christmas, Christmas Cookies, Cookies, Party Food, Sugar Cookies, The Nutcracker
Prep Time
10
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
8
minutes
minutes
Decorating and Drying
5
hours
hours
45
minutes
minutes
Total Time
6
hours
hours
3
minutes
minutes
Servings
24
Cookies
Author
Cerys Parker
Equipment
Mickey Mouse Thanksgiving Cookie Cutter Set (linked above)
5 Piping bag fitted with a number 2 tip
4 Squeeze bottles
Tooth picks
Ingredients
Sugar Cookie Ingredients:
1
C
unsalted butter
softened
1 ½
C
caster sugar
1
tsp
vanilla extract
1
medium
egg
3
C
plain flour
1
tsp
baking soda
1
tsp
cream of tarter
Icing ingredients
1
packet
royal icing
gel food colouring
Black, Red, Blue, Golden yellow
1
black edible marker
Instructions
Directions
Preheat oven to 170C.
Cover a cookie tray with greaseproof paper and set aside
Using a stand mixer, cream together the unsalted butter, caster sugar, vanilla and egg. Mix until combined and creamy.
Using a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and cream of tarter and mix.
Gradually add in the dry ingredients to the creamed butter and sugar and fold in until fully combined.
Lightly flour a pastry board and knead the cookie dough a couple of times.
Roll out the dough to about 1cm thick
Cut out 12 mickey heads and place onto a cookie sheet
Bake for 6-8 minutes or until lightly golden brown
Repeat steps until completely out of dough
Let cookies cool completely for starting to decorate.
Royal Icing Directions:
Mix the Royal Icing as stated on the packet.
Split it into 5 bowls.
Add little of red food gel on a toothpick into the first bowl.
Repeat with blue food gel in the second bowl. Golden yellow in the 3rd and black in the 4th. Leave your 5th bowl with white icing in only.
Mix until the colours are blended and the shades you want you can add more gel food colouring if needed using the toothpicks.
Scoop about 1/4 C of each icing colours into a piping bag with a number 2 tip.
Then mix in 2 tsp of water into the Red, Blue, Black and Yellow icing colours this is to use to flood the cookie outlines you will make.
Pour these icings into the squeeze bottles.
Using the edible marker, draw out the details on to your cookie. Check out finished cookie for an idea.
With the black piping bag outline the ears. Then fill with your black squeeze bottle of icing.
Allow drying for an hour before you start the next colour.
Using the red icing, outline and fill in the red detail of the hat and lower part of the cookie.
Allow to dry for another hour.
Using the Yellow icing, outline and fill in the yellow detail of the hat
Allow to dry for an hour.
Using the blue icing, outline and fill in the belt of the nutcracker.
Using the yellow piping bag, pipe the details of buttons and buckle on the pants and hat.
Using the white icing bag, pipe a mustache onto front and center of the cookie.
Allow to dry for an a few hours before enjoying!