Roly-Poly Santas
I tuck one of these fanciful Santas into every gift cookie tray I make. They're a guaranteed hit with kids—young and old. And I like that they're not too difficult to assemble. —Andrew Syer, Oak Ridge, Missouri
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- Red paste food coloring
- Miniature chocolate chips
- ICING:
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-1/3 cups confectioners' sugar, divided
- 2 tablespoons whole milk, divided
- ASSEMBLY:
- White nonpareils, sugar pearls and Red Hot candies
- Additional miniature semisweet chocolate chips, melted
Reviews
in a time crunch, use a bag of the little store bought gingerbread men and then using those frostings in a tube or bag add the decorations/details. Those called Cookie icing in the bags,( the plastic bottle are sooooo runny) do harden, but not as much as royal, but enough that you can stack them after 20-30 minutes.
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I have been making this cookie for 3 years. It taste great, looks great. You get tons of complaments. This year i am hosting a cookie swap, and i making 4 dozen of them :)
The Santas take a long time to make (lots of balls to roll!) but they're SO worth it. The recipe is delicious and they're absolutely adorable. You can't beat the WOW factor. I've made them for three years in a row now and everyone I give them to loves them. I'd recommend using SALTED butter, though. If you use unsalted, the flavor comes out a bit flat. I also use my own icing recipe rather than one that calls for shortening. I've used this same cookie dough to make LOTS of different holiday shapes (wreaths, reindeer, even teddy bears!) and they all come out perfectly! I've tried adding mini semi-sweet chocolate chips to the cookie dough and made plain chocolate-chip shortbread cookies out of them which were inhaled by my family immediately. I even substituted 1/4 cup of cocoa for 1/4 cup of the flour and made cocoa-flavored cookies. YUM!
I made these for my daughter's preschool class. They turned out really cute, but they took a lot of time to make.
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