Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen
Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen
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Pansy Cookies
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- Level: Easy
- Total: 2 hr 50 min (includes freezing times)
- Active: 40 min
- Yield: 14 to 16 cookies
Welcome spring with these pretty treats. Different shades of purple-tinted dough and a small dot of yellow frosting make these cookies look just like their inspiration.
- Level: Easy
- Total: 2 hr 50 min (includes freezing times)
- Active: 40 min
- Yield: 14 to 16 cookies
Ingredients
Directions
Special equipment:
a 1 3/4-inch 6-petal flower cookie cutter- Break off a quarter of the cookie dough (about 6 tablespoons) and divide into 2 pieces. Put each piece in a separate small bowl. Tint one piece with 4 drops of purple gel food coloring. Tint the other piece with 3 drops of purple gel food coloring and 2 drops of white food coloring.
- Roll out the remaining un-tinted cookie dough between 2 pieces of parchment to an 1/8-inch-thick round (about 12 inches in diameter). Remove the top piece of parchment and reserve.
- Break off a chickpea-size piece of dark purple dough and roll into a rough ball. Place on the rolled-out dough. Arrange 6 roughly rolled chickpea-size pieces of the light purple dough around the dark purple dough in a flower pattern (these will become the petals) about 1 1/2-inches round. Make more flowers with the remaining tinted dough: leave about a 1/2 inch between each flower shape and alternate between dark purple and light purple dough in the center and petals.
- Top the dough with the parchment and gently roll out until the dough is flat and even. Slide the round onto a rimmed baking sheet and freeze until firm, about 1 hour.
- Use a 1 3/4-inch 6-petal flower cookie cutter to cut out each flower shape. Arrange on 2 parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing the cookies 1 inch apart. Freeze until firm, about 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Bake the cookies until just barely golden on the edges, 10 to 12 minutes. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet on a rack.
- Pipe a small yellow dot of icing in the center of each cookie. Let sit for 15 minutes to set.
