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Back to School Apple with Worm Cookies Recipe

Back to School Apple Shaped Sugar Cookies

Lyne Proulx
Put a smile on your kid's faces by making these apple shaped sugar cookies for them to bring on their first day of back to school.
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Prep Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Refrigerate and drying time 14 hours
Total Time 15 hours 15 minutes
Course Snack
Cuisine American, Canadian
Servings 20 cookies
Calories 351 kcal

Equipment

  • Cookie sheet with parchment paper
  • Cookie cutter
  • Cling wrap
  • Cutting board
  • Rolling Pin
  • spatula
  • Butter knife

Ingredients
  

Cookie Ingredients

  • 5 cup flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 cup soft unsalted butter
  • 2 cup granulated sugar
  • 4 eggs

Royal Icing

Icing Ingredients

  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 cup powder sugar
  • 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
  • Red food colouring brown, green gel food colouring

Instructions
 

Cookie Directions

  • Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
  • Add all 4 eggs at one time and continue to mix. Add the vanilla and continue mixing.
  • Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
  • Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
  • Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
  • Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
  • Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  • Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
  • Put flour out on the wood cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into the batter.
  • Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using your APPLE cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
  • Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  • Using a metal spatula move the cut cookie to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
  • Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookie are thoroughly baked.
  • Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely.

Icing Directions

  • Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes. (except your food colouring)
  • If icing is not stiff enough add 1/4 C powder sugar.
  • Leave icing in large bowl. Take out 4 bowls, put 1/4 C of icing in three bowl and the rest of the icing in the fourth bowl.
  • Bowl #1 remains white, bowl #2 , add several drops of brown gel food colouring stirring well until all of the colour is blended. Bowl #3, add several drops of green gel food colouring stirring well until all of the colour is blended.
  • As for the largest amount of icing add several drops of red gel food colouring in the bowl of icing and stir well to mix the colour. (Red is a difficult colour to get so you may have to continue to add the food colouring to get the bright deep red colour. That is why we use a gel food colour as it doesn’t water down the icing.)
  • Spoon each of the icing into individual frosting bags with a #5 tips and twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.

Whole Red Apple

  • First step for each of the completely red apple cookies outline it in red except for the stem and leaf.
  • Allow the red outline at least 30 seconds to dry before filling the body of the cookie in with the other red icing*. After outlining all of the apple cookies you can push the remaining icing into a bowl and add the 1 tsp of water and mix well to get the right consistency. Using a butter knife to spread it from the outlined part inwards to the centre.
  • Immediately, before the red icing dries, add a small drop of white icing and use a toothpick to drag the white icing up the side of the apple. (Following the example.)
  • Outline the stem with brown icing on all of the same apple cookies, fill them in with the thinner icing.
  • Outline the green leaf with the green icing on all of the same apple cookies, fill them in with the thinner icing.
  • Set these aside and allow to completely dry about 4 hours.

Apple with white apple flesh and brown seeds

  • Outline the apple with the red icing leaving the stem and leaf untouched. Allow 30 seconds for the red outline to dry.
  • Outline the apple flesh with white icing. Thin out the icing as per the instructions above. Using a knife spread the icing around the flesh of the red apple. Immediately, before the white icing dries, add two small drops of brown icing for the apple seeds. Drag a little of the brown icing down to make the dot look like an apple seed.
  • Complete the stem and leaf as per the instructions for the whole red apple.
  • Allow to dry for 4 hours.

Red Apple with Worm

  • Follow the instructions on the first apple including the stem, leaf, and white spots on the apple.
  • Add one small white round about the size of a dime, immediately drawing a thin brown line in the circle about a third of the way around the circle. Hand outline a green worm and fill it in. Allow to dry for 30 seconds and all the two eyes and a smile or mouth.
  • Allow 4 hours for cookie to completely dry.

Notes

For these cookies you may have to make two bowls of icing.

Nutrition

Calories: 351kcalCarbohydrates: 50gProtein: 5gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 69mgSodium: 179mgPotassium: 68mgFiber: 1gSugar: 26gVitamin A: 473IUCalcium: 38mgIron: 2mg
Keyword apple shaped sugar cookies, back to school cookies, bunny butt cookies, royal icing, sugar cookies
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