Description
Gnome Cookies – Inspired by Gnomeo & Juliet, this Gnomes Garden Craft is fun for a party or afternoon kids food craft for the kids! Enjoy.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 cup salted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 egg
- 1 2/3 cups flour
- 1 Tablespoon milk
- 1 cup red candy melts
- 1 cup blue candy melts
- 1 cup white candy melts
- Miniature marshmallows
- Decorating bag
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 325° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat together your butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Now mix in your egg and almond extract.
- Then mix in your flour and milk.
- Form your dough into a large ball and roll into flour if it’s still a little sticky.
- Roll out your dough onto a lightly floured surface and use your ice cream cone cookie cutter to cut out your gnome shapes.
- Also form several small nickle sized pieces of dough into balls, lightly press down and place onto your cookie sheet.
- Bake for 13 minutes and let cool.
- In 3 separate small microwave safe bowl‘s, heat your blue, red, and white candy melts on 50% power for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until melted.
- Dunk the top point of your cookies into your melted blue or red chocolate smooth out with a spoon and place onto a piece of parchment paper to harden.
- Scoop your white melted candy into a decorating bag and use it to stick the nose and marshmallows onto the face part of the cookie.
- Let harden and enjoy!
