sugar cookie football stadium

How To Make sugar cookie football stadium

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  Prepare the sugar cookies:
  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
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  In a medium sized bowl, combine the sugar, butter, and egg. Beat until combined and creamy.
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  In another small bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix
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  Stir in the two extracts and then slowly add in the flour mixture. Beat together until completely combined.
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  The dough may be crumbly and that's okay. Knead the dough together to form a ball.
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  If the dough is too wet, add more flour up to 1/4 cup.
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  Wrap the dough tightly and allow to chill for at least 30 minutes, more preferably an hour.
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  Roll out the dough to be cut.
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  To cut out the field, touchdown, and fan cookies, roll out the dough and measure it to be 10 inches by 7 inches.
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  With a butter knife and using the ruler, cut the rectangles to be 1 inch by 3 and 1/2 inches. You should have 20 rectangle cookies. (I used a pizza cutter)
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  You can roll out the remaining sugar cookie dough to make as many footballs as you want or can with the remaining dough.
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  Place the sugar cookies on a cookie sheet and freeze the cookies for 7-10 minutes before baking.
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  Bake the cookies for 7-10 minutes. Mine generally all took about 8.
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  Prepare the icing:
  Combine the egg whites and cream of tartar in a medium-sized bowl and whisk together until the cream of tartar is fully incorporated.
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  Add in the powdered sugar and mix with hand beaters or with a stand mixer for about 10-12 minutes or until stiff peaks form when you lift the mixers.
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  Separate the icing into 3 bowls. Leave one white, dye one green, and dye the other brown.
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  Place the green dye into a disposable bag with a #2 tip.
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  Pipe a rectangle around all of the rectangular cookies.
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  Add a little bit of water to the remaining green dye in the bowl and let the frosting sit with a damp towel for a few minutes.
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  Transfer the frosting to a squeeze bottle and flood the cookies.
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  Use a toothpick to pop any bubbles that appear in the cookie and to guide the frosting to the edges.
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  Allow the frosting to dry completely before piping on the white lettering with a #1 tip.
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  For the footballs:
  Outline the cookie with a #2 tip and brown icing.
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  Add a little bit of water to the remaining brown dye in the bowl and let sit with a damp towel over the frosting for a few minutes.
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  Transfer the frosting to a squeeze bottle and flood the cookies. Again, use the toothpick to help pop bubbles and guide the frosting.
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  For the touchdown cookies:
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  Allow the green frosting to dry fully and then pipe a white line around with a #1 tip.
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  Put the red sprinkles on the white part and shake off the excess sprinkles. Carefully pipe the word "Touchdown" with the #1 tip.
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  For the fans:
  instead of flooding the cookies, pipe white or green frosting over the cookies and pour nonpareil sprinkles over the frosting.
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  This way when you shake off the excess sprinkles, wet frosting won't come with them.
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  Putting it together:
  Place the yard lines together going from 10 to 50 and back down to 10 again.
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  Place the fans on either sides of the field and the touchdown zones and each side.
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  Place footballs around the scene.
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  To make this stadium and these cookies, here is a list of supplies you will need:
  Batch of sugar cookie dough (recipe above)
  Batch of royal icing (recipe above)
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  Football-Shaped Cookie Cutter: link provided
  www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?sku=2308-1263
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  #1 plain tip and #2 plain tip: link provided
  www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?sku=pg_roundtips
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  Disposable icing bags: link provided
  www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E3140F0-475A-BAC0-5B7D1AE0A0068893&killnav=1
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  Standard Couplers: link provided
  www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E30E766-475A-BAC0-5FB09B182CF91CA7&killnav=1
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  Icing Coloring: Brown and Green: link provided
  www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E30B2D9-475A-BAC0-5D5C3DB846DFD354&killnav=1
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  Squeeze bottles
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  Colorful nonpareils sprinkles: link provided
  www.google.com/shopping/product/3066630392559636613?safe=active&es_sm=122&sclient=psy-ab&q=nonpareil+sprinkles++walmart&oq=nonpareil+sprinkles++walmart&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.59026428,d.cWc,pv.xjs.s.en_US.4qum5mEE-zE.O&biw=1366&bih=642&tch=1&ech=1&psi=ypPQUuzYBI-wsASN5oHQCw.1389401019172.3&ei=z5PQUvHqFtLIsAT924DgCw&ved=0CMQBEKkrMAc
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  Red Sugar Sprinkles; link provided
  www.google.com/shopping/product/14208097943260692379?safe=active&es_sm=122&sclient=psy-ab&q=red+sugar+sprinkles+walmart&oq=red+sugar+sprinkles+walmart&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.59026428,d.cWc,pv.xjs.s.en_US.4qum5mEE-zE.O&biw=1366&bih=642&tch=1&ech=1&psi=L5TQUrDWOvCvsQTYs4DABA.1389401121030.5&ei=Q5TQUt2TKK7ksAT4h4KYDA&ved=0CMEBEKYrMAU
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  Toothpicks
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  If you haven’t ever tried royal icing, here is a fantastic tutorial you should read before getting started: How to decorate cookies with royal icing.
  LINK:
  www.spoonfulofflavor.com/2013/12/13/how-to-decorate-cookies-with-royal-icing/
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