Independence Day Recipes
Double Dip Sugar Cookies
Beautiful Independence Day colors! Dip them to match any holiday.
Prep: 30 min | Total: 1 hr 20 min | Yield: 24 servings
Ingredients
- 1 (17.5 ounce) pouch Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 container Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla or creamy white frosting
- Few drops red and blue food colors
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
- In large bowl, stir cookie mix, butter and egg until dough forms.
- Scoop dough by rounded tablespoon into 24 pieces; roll each into a ball. Place 3 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
- Cool for 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely.
- Measure 1/3 cup frosting into each of 2 small microwavable bowls. Stir red food color into 1 bowl; stir blue food color into other bowl. Set aside.
- Line two cookie sheets with wax paper.
- Place remaining 1 cup frosting into another small microwavable bowl; microwave uncovered on High 30 seconds. Dip each cookie halfway into white frosting, allowing excess to drip off. Place on wax paper; let stand 20 minutes to set.
- Microwave bowls of red and blue frosting uncovered on High 30 seconds.
- Dip white-frosted side of each cookie part way into red or blue frosting, leaving some of the white showing. Allow excess frosting to drip off.
- Place on wax paper; let stand 30 minutes to set.
- Store in single layer, loosely covered at room temperature.
Nutrition
Per 1 cookie: Calories 190 (Calories from Fat 80), Total Fat 9g (Saturated Fat 3 1/2g, Trans Fat 2g), Cholesterol 20mg; Sodium 130mg; Total Carbohydrate 28g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 19g), Protein 1g
Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2.00%; Vitamin C 0.00%; Calcium 0.00%; Iron 0.00%
Carbohydrate Choices: 2
Exchanges: 1 Starch; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 1 1/2 Fat
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from:
Betty Crocker