Cute and creative Pig Butt Cookies are a perfect Easter treat!
Pig Butt Cookies
- Prep Time 45 min
- Total 2 hr 15 min
- Ingredients 8
- Servings 32
Ingredients
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 32 large marshmallows
- 4 Starburst™ strawberry-flavored chewy fruit candies, unwrapped
- 1 container (12 oz) fluffy white whipped ready-to-spread frosting
- Pink or red food color
- 32 pink or black jelly beans, cut in half lengthwise
- 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons pink sanding sugar
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, mix cookie dough and flour with hands until well mixed. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH FLOUR.) Reshape dough into 9x1 1/2-inch log. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate 30 minutes.
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Step2Remove plastic wrap. Cut dough into 32 slices. Place slices on ungreased cookie sheet.
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Step3Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Meanwhile, slightly flatten 32 marshmallows.
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Step4Remove from oven, and top each cookie with marshmallow. Return to oven, and bake 1 to 2 minutes or until slightly softened. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
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Step5Meanwhile, on microwavable plate, microwave 1 strawberry-flavored chewy fruit candy uncovered on High 10 to 15 seconds until soft but not melted. Flatten candy with fingers to 2x2-inch square. Cut into 8 equal strips. Twist strips into corkscrew tails with one tapered edge. Repeat with remaining 3 candies.
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Step6In medium microwavable bowl, tint frosting with food color to desired shade of pink; stir until well blended. Microwave uncovered on High 10 to 15 seconds or until soft but not translucent.
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Step7To make pig butt, frost 1 cookie with frosting. Attach 2 jelly bean halves, cut sides down, to bottom of cookie for feet. Sprinkle top of cookie with 1/4 teaspoon sanding sugar. Attach 1 corkscrew tail to center of cookie. Repeat with remaining cookies.
Nutrition
220
Calories
8g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
35g
Total Carbohydrate
24g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 220
- Calories from Fat
- 70
- Total Fat
- 8g
- 12%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 14%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 115mg
- 5%
- Potassium
- 5mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 35g
- 12%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 24g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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