Cookie Recipes
Hot Dog Cookies
Yield: 16
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Red and green food coloring
- 3 tablespoons flaked coconut
- Yellow decorator's frosting
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar.
- Beat in flour and vanilla extract.
- Remove 1 cup dough; add red food coloring and knead until well combined.
- Cover and refrigerate remaining dough for 1 hour.
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- For hot dogs, divide red dough into 16 portions. Shape into 2 1/2 inch logs and round the ends; set aside.
- Divide plain dough into 16 portions. Shape into 3-inch logs; make a very deep lengthwise groove in each. Smooth edges to form buns. Place 3 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Place hot dogs in buns.
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until edges are golden brown.
- Cool.
- Meanwhile, for pickle relish, combine coconut and green food coloring in a resealable plastic bag; shake well. Sprinkle over hotdogs. For mustard pipe a stripe of yellow frosting down the center of each.
Attribution
Taste of Home's Quick Cooking magazine, July/August 2000