How to Make All-but-Instant Holiday Cookies

When holiday spirits soar but year-end pressures mount, these cookies can save the day. They'll send those old-time aromas wafting from your kitchen - and give your kids a chance to practice their baking skills - in a fraction of the time it takes to make a batch of cookies from scratch.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Icing
• Sugar Cookie Dough
• Cookie Sheets
• Cooling Racks
• Holiday Cookie Cutters
• Knife
• Oven Mitts
• Knife
• Oven Mitts
• Cookie sheets
• Oven mitts

1. Go to your closest neighborhood grocery store and buy rolls of refrigerated sugar cookie dough.

2. Slice each roll into 1/8-inch to 1/4-inch circles.

3. Leave some of the circles as they are.

4. Cut others into shapes, using small cookie cutters.

5. Bake according to the directions on the package.

6. Decorate the finished cookies using store-bought tubes of icing.

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on 11/22/2005 Get the cookies that are already formed in a block. cut each block in half. Roll one half in a ball and roll in sugar, place on cookie sheet and flatten. The other side, cut in half. each smaller piece is to be rolled in a ball and rolled in suger, place 1" apart at the edge of the larger ball..DO NOT FLATTEN. Bake by package directions. Remove from oven and immediately place 2 mini-M & M's (same color) for the eyes and 1 chocolate chip for the nose. Push them in so they will stay when cookie cools.