All you need for pull-apart shamrock cookies are 4 ingredients and a heart-shaped cookie cutter. These Pillsbury™ St. Patrick's Day cookies use Pillsbury™ Refrigerated Sugar Cookie Dough and a clever arrangement to create the 3 blooms and stem. Use green gel food color in your creamy ready-to-spread frosting for a fun take on shamrock cookies.
Shamrock Pull-Apart Cookies
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 50 min
- Ingredients 4
- Servings 21
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
- 1 cup vanilla creamy ready-to-spread frosting (from 16-oz container)
- Green gel food color
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Spray large cookie sheet with cooking spray.
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Step2Sprinkle flour on work surface; roll half of the dough 1/4 inch thick. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER ROLLING OUT ON FLOURED SURFACE.) Using 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut 21 cookies from dough, rolling and re-rolling as necessary. Use remaining cookie dough to shape 7 stems for shamrocks.
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Step3Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown around edges. Cool 5 minutes on cookie sheet. Remove to cooling rack to cool completely, about 15 minutes.
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Step4Microwave frosting uncovered on High about 15 seconds or until thin and easily spreadable. Tint with food color to desired shade of green. Spread frosting onto heart-shaped cookies. Arrange cookies in clusters of 3 to form shamrock shapes. Place 1 stem at the base of each shamrock.
Nutrition
150
Calories
6g
Total Fat
0g
Protein
23g
Total Carbohydrate
8g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 150
- Calories from Fat
- 50
- Total Fat
- 6g
- 9%
- Saturated Fat
- 1 1/2g
- 8%
- Trans Fat
- 1 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 100mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 5mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 23g
- 8%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 8g
- Protein
- 0g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 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 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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