Whoville Cookies

By HazyWaters

These are the perfect cookie to leave out for the Grinch to distract him from stealing your Christmas joy on Christmas Eve. You can change up the colors to match any theme you have. This is a great take on a yummy sugar cookie. The whoville sugar cookies are fun, festive and easy to make, but they look like they will take forever ? Don’t tell your friends they don’t take forever when you bring them to your parties

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cups butter (2 sticks)
• 1 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• red and green food coloring
• 1 cup holiday sprinkles

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 325° .

In a large bowl, Cream sugar and butter until fluffy, about 5 minutes; Add eggs and vanilla.

Meanwhile, mix dry ingredients in separate large bowl; add to butter mixture, mix well.

Separate the dough into 2 equal halves. Add red food coloring to one half of the dough and green to the other half.

Put one of the freshly made dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll 11 x 9 inches and 1/4 inch thick. Repeat with the other color dough.

Put the rolled dough including the parchment paper, on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes or longer.

Take the top layer off both dough’s and lightly wet the tops. Sandwich the two colors together, using a paring knife trim the edges to make straight edges.
Remove the top layer of paper and start rolling up and use the bottom layer of paper to pull it tight. If the dough tears you can just pinch it together.
Pour the sprinkles onto a large platter and roll the log onto the sprinkles and press them in.

Place the dough into the fridge for 15 minutes or longer.

Slice the dough into 1/4 inch slices and bake on parchment lined sheets.

Bake at 325° F for 10 -15 minutes. Let cool.