Touchdown Cookies

Name: Touchdown Cookies
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4-1/2 dozen.
Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened; 1 cup sugar; 2 large Eggland's Best eggs, room temperature; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 3 cups all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons cream of tartar; 1 teaspoon baking soda; GLAZE:; 4 cups confectioners' sugar; 8 to 10 tablespoons hot water; Black paste food coloring; 6 to 8 teaspoons baking cocoa

With some simple sweet touches, you can transform regular sugar cookies into a special treat for football fans at your pigskin party. —Sister Judith LaBrozzi, Canton, Ohio

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 large Eggland's Best eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
GLAZE:
4 cups confectioners' sugar
8 to 10 tablespoons hot water
Black paste food coloring
6 to 8 teaspoons baking cocoa

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, cream of tartar and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours or until easy to handle.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a football-shaped and a small gingerbread man cookie cutter. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets.
Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
In a large bowl, combine confectioners' sugar and enough hot water to achieve spreading consistency; beat until smooth. Divide glaze into thirds. Stir black food coloring into a third of the glaze; set aside. Add cocoa to another third; stir until smooth. Spread brown glaze over football cookies. Pipe white glaze for the football laces. Spread or pipe remaining white glaze over gingerbread men cookies to make shirts. Pipe black stripes over the white shirts to resemble referee stripes.

Nutrition Facts

1 cookie: 108 calories, 4g fat (2g saturated fat), 16mg cholesterol, 53mg sodium, 18g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein.

Originally published as Touchdown Cookies in Taste of Home October/November 2001

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amiracle2012

Jan 6, 2015

What a kick, pun intended, we all got out of this recipe, The only thing I changed about these cookies which I plan to make again this year, is I make them rounder and put the number of our favorite players on them using the initial Icing by It's a Party
Patricia Sloup

Mar 24, 2012

These cookies are so good! We just love them. They taste like a chocolate glazed donut. Yummy.
jsmc80

Feb 5, 2012

These cookies was positively a touchdown! My daughter took these to a Superbowl party, and they were wiped out. We will be making these for future game.
Mimma56

Feb 4, 2012

The recipe seems really simple. I will try these sometime.
Deb Kash

Dec 11, 2011

I made these for my hospital units fall meeting and they got rave reviews. I know it comes from an old issue but I collect all old TOH magazines I can find. I love the ones from the early years and love this website.
katlaydee3

Mar 2, 2011

We really liked these alot. Will definitely make again.
schield

Feb 4, 2011

These are good and cute. We make them every year for the Super Bowl.
Nancy R

Feb 4, 2011

I made these last year and they were not worth the trouble. Too sweet.
raecpoe

Feb 2, 2010

I have no choice but to make these again- EVERYONE here loves them. We have them at every SuperBowl party- plus any other parties (they tell me I have to keep making them so I won't be out of practice)I do use a Sugar Cookie pouch mix when I am short on time- but I use this frosting recipe always!! :)
sarahsandra

Jan 24, 2010

Don't know what I did wrong, but cookies were a greasey mess. threw out. waste of ingreadients.