An Ocean Spray
When you need a bit of beach attitude in your latitude, put together this breezy cookie collection for a summer party or luau. Nestle the cookies into a tray full of brown sugar “sand.”
When you need a bit of beach attitude in your latitude, put together this breezy cookie collection for a summer party or luau. Nestle the cookies into a tray full of brown sugar “sand.”
Ingredients
COOKIES:
1 pouch (17.5 ounces) sugar cookie mix, Betty Crocker®
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1⁄3 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1 tablespoon frozen lemon juice, thawed, Minute Maid®
DECORATIONS:
Colored decorating icings,Cake Mate® Easy Squeeze or Betty Crocker® Easy Flow
Colored decorating gels,Cake Mate®
Colored sparkling sugar, India Tree®
Colored sanding sugar
Pull-apart twist candy,Twizzlers® Pull-n-Peel
Fruit leather
Chocolate-covered maltedmilk balls
Tiny candy-coated chocolate pieces, M&M’s® Minis
Directions
For cookies, in a large bowl, combine sugar cookie mix and flour. Add butter, egg, and lemon juice, stirring until mixture forms a dough. Shape dough into a ball; flatten into a disk. Wrap disk in plastic wrap. Chill in refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Line cookie sheets with parchment paper; set aside. On a lightly floured surface, roll out chilled dough to 1⁄4-inch thickness. Using beach-theme cookie cutters, cut out various shapes. Reroll scrap dough to cut out more shapes. Transfer same-size cookies to prepared cookie sheets, spacing cookies 2 inches apart.* Chill cutout cookies in refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Bake cookies for 10 to 14 minutes (depending on size) or until cookies are puffed. Cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack; cool completely.
Decorate cooled cookies with colored decorating icings, decorating gels, sugars, strips of twist candy, fruit leather, and/or candy-coated chocolate pieces
NOTE: Arrange same-size cookies together on cookie sheet so small shapes don’t overbake while large shapes take longer to fully bake.
