Mickey Mouse Shamrock Shorts Cookies Recipe
Mickey Mouse Shamrock Shorts Cookies
Festive Mickey Mouse shorts cookies for St. Patrick's Day
Ingredients
- Template for Mickey's Shamrock Shorts Cookies
- Scissors
- Batch of sugar cookie dough (homemade or store bought)
- Rolling pin
- Flour
- Wax paper
- Kitchen knife
- Baking sheets
- Cooling rack
- Green cookie icing (the kind that hardens when it sets up)
- White chocolate chips
- Small microwavable mixing bowl
Instructions
- Print and cut out the Mickey's Shamrock Shorts Cookies template
- Heat the oven
- Working on a flour (for gluten-free try Bob's Red Mill flour used by Disney)-dusted sheet of wax paper, roll out the chilled dough to ¼-inch thickness Use the template piece and a kitchen knife to cut Mickey short shapes from the dough.
- Bake the cookies according to the recipe directions and then let them cool completely.
- Melt a small handful of white chocolate chips in the microwave according to the package directions.
- Spread the melted candy on wax paper and set it aside for a few minutes to harden.
- Once it's ready, cut the candy into thin slivers to use for the shamrock stems, and set them aside for now.
- Working with one cookie at a time, spread the tops with green cookie icing.
- Before the icing sets, add two shamrock buttons.
- For each, press three white chocolate chips (tips down) into the icing, and add a tiny candy stem.
- Set the decorated cookies aside for the icing to harden (four hours or so) before serving.
