Recipe: Santa Head Cookie (using refrigerated cookie dough, Woman's World magazine)

SANTA HEAD COOKIE
Ho Ho Ho! The Sweetest Santa ever!

"If Dakota could only make one great big cookie, "It would be a big white beard and a red hat," she giggles. So we made one for her"

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 (18 oz.) pkg.refrigerated sugar cookies dough
1 (12 oz.) can whipped vanilla frosting, divided use
Red concentrated food coloring, such as Wilton's
1/4 cup each red and white decorating sugar crystals
2 tsp. light corn syrup
1 Tbsp. fine pink decorating sugar crystals
1/4 cup white nonpareil sprinkles
1/3 cup miniature marshmallows
1 large pink jelly bean
2 Junior Mint candles
1 red heart-shaped candy, such as Sweet Tarts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Knead flour into cookie dough until combined. On straight or foil parchment paper roll out dough to 1/4-inch thickness, about 16x10-inches.

On copier, enlarge photos of cookies and templates (printed under text) by 215%. Using templates as guides, cut out Santa head, brim, mustache and hat pompom, rerolling scraps as necessary. Transfer dough cutoffs on foil to baking sheets.

Bake 12-15 minutes for smaller pieces and 18-20 minutes for head until golden. Cool 2 minutes, transfer to racks. Cool completely.

Transfer 1/2 cup frosting to plastic food storage bag; reserve. Tint 1/2 cup remaining frosting red with food coloring; spread over 'hat' area. Sprinkle with red sugar to cover, shaking off excess. For cheeks, brush corn syrup in ovals onto face; sprinkle with pink sugar, shaking off excess. Spread remaining frosting over "beard", hat brim, mustache pieces and pompom. Sprinkle beard and mustache with white decorating sugar and brim with nonpariels, shaking off excess. Attach marshmallows to popcorn. Snip small corner from the reserved bag of frosting. Attach mustache cookies to hat with piped frosting, pressing to secure. For "nose," attach jelly bean with frosting. For "eyes", pipe circles of frosting onto cookie; top with mints for " pupils". Pipe frosting lines onto mints for "twinkle." Pipe on frosting "eyebrows." Attach heart-shaped candy for "mouth." Pipe swirls of frosting onto "beard."

The article is accompanied by a full page cover color photo of Elle and Dakota Fanning making cookies, with many types of cookies shown on the bottom of the page- Dakota Fanning, 9, and her sister Elle, 5; A full page color photo of Elle and Dakota holding a large Santa face cookie- Please turn to page 27 for the recipe for our giant Santa cookie!; 2 full color pages of photos of the cookies- Cookies kids love!; 2 pages of recipes with photos of the cookies, brownies, etc.

Makes 16 servings
Source: Woman's World Magazine Article, December 16, 2003, Have a Sweet Holiday!