These Football Stadium Sugar Cookies are the perfect treat for game day or football parties!
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Use a hand mixer/stand mixer and a mixing bowl to combine the ingredients to make the cookie dough base. Once mixed, the dough should be quite soft and light in color.
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Once the cookies have completely cooled, it's time to decorate! Use an icing spreader, frost the top half of each cookie with white icing*.
*Instead of making icing, you can use store-bought cookie icing!
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Fill a bowl with rainbow nonpareils sprinkles. Place the cookies face-down into the sprinkles while the icing is still wet. The sprinkles will stick to the icing, covering it with colorful "fans" in the stadium!
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Next, cover the other half of the cookie with green icing. In case you can't guess, this is the stadium grass! If you want to add a little more texture, you could top this area with green sugar sprinkles. Leave the cookie icing to set for at least 10 minutes before moving on to the next step.
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Football Stadium Sugar Cookies
Servings: 24 cookiesPrep Time: 40 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Rainbow nonpareils sprinkles
Icing Ingredients:
- 1 ¼ cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp milk
- Gel food coloring - green, yellow
Cookie Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350º F.
- Line 2 baking sheets with silicone baking mats and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together until well incorporated.
- Add egg and vanilla and mix until well incorporated.
- In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and baking powder.
- While the mixer is on low speed, slowly add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, and beat until you have a soft dough.
- Use a cookie scoop to place balls of dough on a baking sheet 1 inch apart.
- Gently press the dough balls to about 1⁄2 inch thick.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool for at least 30 minutes on a wire rack.
Icing Directions:
- Add all icing ingredients into a small mixing bowl.
- Whisk the mixture until fully combined.
- The icing glaze should be thick. If it's too thin, add a little more powdered sugar until you get the right consistency.
- Add 1/8 cup icing into a small bowl, and half of the rest of the icing into another.
- Keep the the original bowl of icing as-is. In the bowl with 1/8 cup, add some yellow gel food coloring and mix to combine.
- Add some green gel food coloring to the other bowl of icing, and mix until completely combined.
Decorating Directions:
- Frost half of a cookie with white icing, and and dip in nonpareil sprinkles.
- Frost the other half of the cookie with green icing for the “field”.
- Let the green icing set for at least 10 minutes.
- In the center of the cookie, use the yellow icing to make a “goal post”.
Tips:
- Storage: Store cookies in an airtight container for up to one week.
- Freeze: Freeze cookies for up to 1 month. Stack cookies in an airtight container with a piece of parchment paper placed between each layer to prevent the icing from sticking to the other cookies.
- For best results (a soft and chewy cookie), don't over-bake the cookies.
- Instead of making icing, you can use store-bought cookie icing in white, green, and yellow.
- For perfect circle cookies: Right after removing cookies from the oven, place a mason jar lid ring, cookie cutter, or large glass over a cookie. Gently move in a circular pattern around the cookie, allowing it to reshape the cookie into a circle. This only works when cookies are still soft and fresh out of the oven!
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