Christmas Tree Cookies

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Christmas Tree Cookies
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Ingredients
  1. Green Dough
  2. 1/4
  3. cup Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
  4. 1/4
  5. cup butter, softened
  6. 1
  7. tablespoon green crème de menthe liqueur or crème de menthe syrup
  8. 2
  9. drops green food color
  10. Decorating bag fitted with small writing tip
  11. Cookies
  12. 1
  13. roll (18 oz) refrigerated sugar cookies
  14. Candy sprinkles or miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
Instructions
  1. 1 Heat oven to 350°F. In small bowl, mix green dough ingredients until well blended. Place dough in decorating bag fitted with small writing tip; set aside.
  2. 2 Work with half of dough at a time; keep remaining dough refrigerated. On lightly floured work surface, roll out dough with rolling pin to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with 2 1/2- to 3 1/2-inch tree-shaped cookie cutter; place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
  3. 3 Squeeze decorating bag to pipe green dough around outer edge of each tree cookie; pipe dots randomly in center. Top each dot with candy sprinkle.
  4. 4 Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets.
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