Christmas Minnie Mouse Cookies

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These Christmas Minnie mouse cookies are absolutely adorable and so perfectly delicious!

They’re the perfect sweet treat to whip up during the holiday season or for when you’re planning a Minnie mouse themed party for your kiddo.

These sugar cookies are super cute and fun, and are a perfect to enjoy with everyone!

What I Love About the Recipe

Apart from the fact that these cookies are perfect for a nice party, my favorite part about them is that they can be a lot of fun to make with the kids too.

You can actually prepare the cookies in advance and let your kids get creative and decorate them the way they want to.

It can be a great way to get the kids involved in the kitchen and whip up some cute and fun cookies that they’ll then be able to eat too!

Ingredients For the Christmas Minnie Mouse Cookies

To make these Minnie mouse cookies, here’s what you’ll need.

• 1 c powdered sugar
• 1⁄2 c unsalted sweet cream butter
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 tsp pure almond extract
• 2 1⁄2 c flour
• 1 tsp cream of tartar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 3 in Mickey mouse shaped cookie cutter
• Vanilla royal icing
• 3 large egg whites
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 tsp cream of tartar
• 3 C powdered sugar
• Orange gel food coloring
• Red and black edible food marker 1 package of red fondant
• 1 Wilton bow fondant mold
• 1 fondant paint brush
• 2 piping bags with number 2 tip
• 1 large squeeze bottle

How to Make the Minnie Mouse Cookies

Once you have your ingredients ready, here’s what you’ll need to do to make the Christmas Minnie mouse cookies.

Step 1: Prepare the Bow

Take the paint brush and dip it into powdered sugar. Place the Wilton silicone mat onto a cutting board and using the paint brush, lightly dust the small bow mold. This helps keep the fondant from sticking to the mold.

Step 2: Allow to Set Overnight

Pinch off about 1 1⁄2 tsp of red fondant and push it into the bow mold. Allow it to set for 5 mins before carefully removing from the mold. Place onto the cutting board and continue making 23 more bows. Allow to bow to sit overnight

Step 3: Preheat the Oven

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two cookie sheets with silicon baking mats

Step 4: Cream Wet Ingredients

Using a standing mixer, beat the butter, powdered sugar, eggs, vanilla, and almond extract until combined and creamy

Step 5: Combine Dry Ingredients

In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar until combined. Gradually beat in the dry ingredients into the wet until a dough forms

Step 6: Roll Out the Cookie Dough

Lightly dust a cutting board with flour and roll cookie dough out to 1⁄4 in thick

Step 7: Shape the Christmas Minnie Mouse Cookies

Cut out 24 mickey head cookies and bake 6 at a time on each cookie sheet for 11 minutes or until a light golden color around the edge. Allow to cool

Step 8: Prepare the Icing

Using a standing mixer, beat the egg whites, cream of tartar, powdered sugar, and vanilla until combined and holds a soft peak, about 5 – 7 minutes. If your icing seems to be ‘runny’ and has a cream color to it, beat in another 1⁄2 C powdered sugar.

Step 9: Add Different Food Coloring

Scoop 1⁄4 c of icing into a small bowl and mix in a few drops of orange gel food coloring. Scoop into 1 piping bag and set aside. Scoop about 1 cup of the white icing into the second piping bag and set aside

Step 10: Transfer to a Squeeze Bottle

Mix in about 2 – 3 tablespoon of water into remaining white icing and mix until combined. You want the icing to fall off the back of the spoon like lava. Pour the rest into the squeeze bottle.

Step 11: Decorate Cookies With Icing

Using the white piping bag, outline each cookie in white then using the squeeze bottle, fill in the outline of the cookies with white. Allow to completely dry for 5-7 hours to form a ‘hard’ shell.

Step 12: Add the Details and Finish Decorating

Using the orange piping bag, pipe a nose in the center of the cookie. Pipe two small dollops on the back of the red fondant bow and place in between the ears of the cookie. Using the black edible marker, pipe two black dots for eyes. Using the red edible marker, pipe dots for the mouth. Enjoy the Christmas Minnie Mouse cookies.

Tips & Tricks to Nail the Christmas Minnie Mouse Cookies Recipe

Think you’re ready to try this cute and fun Minnie mouse cookie recipe? Here are some additional tips and tricks you might want to take note of.

• If you’re planning to make these Minnie mouse sugar cookies for a party, you can actually prep them before as well!
• Simply make the sugar cookies up to 3 days before the party. Then, you can proceed to add the details and royal icing on the cookies on the day of the party.
• If you want the Christmas Minnie mouse cookies to last longer, you can also choose to pop them in a freezer safe container and freeze them until you’re ready to use them.
• If you’re not too keen on making the icing from scratch, you can simply using store-bought frosting or icing mix and use them for decorating the sugar cookies.
• Remember to allow the frosting on the sugar cookies to cool down completely before you serve them out at the party!

This recipe makes 2 dozen Christmas Minnie mouse cookies, and it can be halved, or doubled too.

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