Harvest Scarecrow Cookies

It’s fun and easy to “dress” vanilla sugar cookies as sweet scarecrows by adding shredded wheat “straw hair,” a sugar wafer “hat,” and a smiling red licorice face.

Yield: 3 dozen or 36 (1 cookie) servings
Prep: 30 min | Bake: 9 to 10 min per batch

Ingredients

• 1 (17.5 ounce) package sugar cookie mix
• 1 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1 (16 ounce) container vanilla frosting
• 54 sugar wafer cookies
• Shredded wheat cereal, broken up
• Assorted decorations, such as candy-coated pieces and red string licorice

Instructions

1. Prepare cookie mix as directed on package, adding vanilla. Cut out rounds with 2 1/2-inch round cookie cutter.
2. Bake and cool cookies as directed on package.
3. Frost cookies with vanilla frosting.
4. For the scarecrow’s hat, break a sugar wafer cookie in half. Press wafer cookie half into the top of the frosted cookie. Place a whole wafer cookie below the cookie half.
5. Press shredded wheat around sides of the face for straw hair.
6. Use candy-coated pieces and string licorice to decorate the face.

Nutrition

Per serving: Calories: 200 Fat: 8g Carbohydrates: 31g Cholesterol: 11mg Sodium: 90mg Fiber: 0g Protein: 1g

Attribution

Recipe used with permission from: McCormick