Ingredients

  • 12 cup sugar
  • 12 cup butter or 12 cup margarine, softened
  • 12 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 1 12 cups all-purpose flour
  • 14 teaspoon baking soda
  • 14 teaspoon salt
  • 14 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 tablespoon red cinnamon candies
  • 12 cup vanilla frosting, prepared
  • 14 cup flaked coconut or 14 cup edible glitter
  • 1 fruit leather (any red flavor)

Method

  • Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  • In large bowl, beat sugar and butter with electric mixer on medium speed until blended.
  • Beat in vanilla and egg.
  • On low speed, beat in flour, baking soda and salt.
  • Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
  • For each cookie, flatten ball into about 1 1/2 inch round with fingers place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
  • Lightly press 2 chocolate chips into upper third of dough round for eyes.
  • Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
  • Immediately press 1 cinnamon candy onto each cookie for nose.
  • Remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks.
  • Cool 15 minutes.
  • Place frosting in small resealable food-storage plastic bag.
  • Seal bag; cut off small corner of bag.
  • Squeeze bag to pibe frosting along bottom edge of cookie and below cinnamon candy for beard and mustache.
  • Lightly sprinkle coconut over frosting; gently press into frosting.
  • Cut fruit snack into 2 inch-long pieces.
  • Cut each piece diagonally in half to make 2 triangles.
  • With small amount of frosting, attach fruit snack triangle on each cookie for hat.
  • Fold top corner of each triangle over; pipe frosting "tassle" on pointed end of each "hat".