Pillsbury Canadian Baking Challenge

INGREDIENTS

1 pkg (510g) Pillsbury* Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookies and Chocolate Explosion Cookies

3 cups icing sugar

1/4 cup water

2 tsp vanilla extract (optional)

Food coloring of your choice

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat oven to 350°F (180°C). Shape the dough into approximately 24 balls.  Slightly flatten balls with damp fingers.  Place them on two baking sheets lined with parchment paper.  Bake until golden for approximately 12 minutes.

·  Mix icing sugar and water thoroughly with a whisk.  If you’d like more than one color, separate icing into different bowls.  Add food coloring of your choice and stir.

·  If you have piping bags and tips for the icing, use those to decorate your cookies.  If not, spoon icing into a Ziploc bag and cut a tiny hole in one of the bottom corners so that the icing can flow out.  (One bag per color).

·  Decorate cookies as you wish!

Makes: 24 servings

Tip:  For easier decorating, outline your cookie design first and then go back and fill the centers in later.  You’ll be creating a ‘dam’ to hold the icing in.