Adorable Grinch’s Santa Belly Christmas Cookies
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How The Grinch Stole Christmas is one of my favorite books, and cartoons ever. We used to sing the song in chorus every year, and Korey is afraid but also likes The Grinch. I know it may be a bit to early for some people to think about Christmas, yes I know Thanksgiving is in-between but my kids are so excited about getting a picture with Santa.
If you are looking for a cute snack to give the kids when you watch this (it’s available on the ABC Family 25 Days of Christmas!) then this is the Christmas cookie you are looking for.
Adorable Grinch's Santa Belly Christmas Cookies
Author: Ashleigh W
Serves: 6
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Ingredients
- Cookie Ingredients:
- 1½ C butter, room temp
- 2 C white sugar
- 4 egg, room temp
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 5 C flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- Cookie Cutter:
- Round cookie cutter
- Icing Ingredients:
- 2 egg whites
- 1 C powder sugar
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
- Red, black, yellow & green gel food coloring
Instructions
- -Cream butter and sugar together until smooth.
- -Add in the eggs and vanilla, beating them as you add them in.
- -Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir to blend the ingredients together.
- -Form the dough into a large ball, cover then put in the refrigerator for an hour.
- -Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- -Spread some flour on a cutting board and on the rolling pin. (If needed)
- -Roll out dough. Using a the cookie cutter cut out the cookies.
- -Put the cookies 2 inches apart on the cookie sheets.
- -Bake at 400 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes or until they turn slightly brown.
- -Cool slightly while still on the cookie sheet.
- -Transfer the cookies to 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 coloring)
- -If icing is not stiff enough add ¼ C powder sugar.
- -Take out 4 TBSP of icing and add several drops of black gel food coloring. Mix to blend the color.
- -Take another 4 TBSP of icing adding green gel food coloring. Mix well.
- -Remove 4 TBSP of icing in a bowl, keeping it white.
- -Take out 2 TBSP of icing adding several drops of golden yellow gel food coloring. Mix well.
- -Put the remaining icing into a bowl. Color this icing red.
- -Spoon each of the bowls of icing into individual (4) piping bags, each with a #2 tip. Keep the red icing in the bowl.
- -Twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.
- Grinch's Santa Belly
- -Follow the outline off of the picture of the cookies provided.
- -Outline the entire cookie in black including the belt and the green area (Grinch's belly) . Allow the outlining to dry for 30 seconds before filling in the cookies in with the thinner red icing. Don not fill in the black belt and green belly with the red icing. (* Thin out the red icing by adding 1-3 TBSP of water to the icing. You will want the icing to be thick and runny not the appearance of soup. If the icing has the soup look add a very small amount of powdered sugar to thicken it.) Allow the filling also to dry for about 30 seconds before adding any more to the cookie.
- - Following the outline for the black belt, fill the belt in with the black icing. After this has dried outline and build (fill in) the belt buckle in the golden yellow.
- -Begin to work on the green belly..Outline in the green then fill it with the green icing . In the center of the green belly, as shown in the picture, make a thick dot out of the green icing. Allow to dry.
- -To make the fur above the green belly begin by making 6 circle outlines then fill each of them in with more of the white icing.
- -Allow to dry for 5-10 hours.
What Grinch will it be that will steal all the cookies?
Are these not just the cutest cookies you have seen?
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These are adorable! I love Grinch stuff and these cookies are so much fun!
JanetGoingCrazy recently posted..Day Eleven – Thankful for the Veterans in my Life
These are so cute! I absolutely love the Grinch! It is a classic!
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Too cute! I love them!
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wow – these are seriously so cute! You are super talented -they look great!
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I love your cookies they are so cool who taught you to bake and ice like that?
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These cookies are adorable! I am saving this recipe for later. Thanks for sharing.
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These are adorable! My kids would love making them (and of course eating them). Thank you for sharing!
Trish @Almost Sexy Mommy recently posted..We Got A Makeover
I loveeeeeee these! We re-play the Grinch at least 50 times until Christmas. My son will go crazy for these 🙂
These are adorable! If I were teaching right now, I would definitely be making these for our showing of The Grinch!
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These cookies are so cute! My kids love How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and I’m sure they would love these cookies while watching the show!
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Those are so cute. I love how they came out. I am very impressed with the detail.
These are so cool! I’m going to have to give these cookies a try. My kids would love them!!
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These are SO cute!!!! I love it!!!!
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Those cookies are so cute! I love that you decorated them as Santa’s belly. Straight up adorable.
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I absolutely LOVE making cookies with my boys or the holidays and I can’t wait to introduce this idea to them. So fun and looks delish too!
I always start with good intentions, but mine always turn out like a kindergartner made it! Can I order them from you? LOL
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The timing I think is key. Which I can only achieve on the weekend when my oldest is at Grandmas LOL
Adorable, indeed! That’s such a creative idea, perfect for parties too. Thanks for sharing the recipe, although I don’t think I can make it look that nice!
These look incredible! I wish I had the skill to do something like this.
Oh my goodness, these are so cute! You are definitely talented with icing – I feel like I would totally fail at these!
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Oh these are so fun. I love the Grinch and these would be great cookies for a Grinch movie night.
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These cookies are truly cute and adorable. I like how simple they are to make too. Thanks for sharing.
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These are such cute and adorable cookies to bake with my little one for the holidays! I can’t wait.
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These are too cute to eat! I love that it has a The Grinch’s belly, lol. That’s a nice touch.
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now aren’t these the cutest cookies ever. You must make these with royal icing – how else could it look so perfect! My cookies never look this nice, my kids would be so overjoyed if I could decorate like this
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These are so so cute! What a great cookie exchange cookie too.
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These are so cute! They are definitely unique and I love it. We love the Grinch in our house.
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I love these! My toddler would love leaving these Grinchy treats for Santa this year!
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I love these! They are so adorable! Cookies are a huge hit around this time of year for my kids! We have to give this one a try!
Those cookies are lovely, I bet my daughter is going to love them, thanks! 😀
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Aww, these are so super cute and I bet they are so yummy! We love the Grinch!
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Yes, those are absolutely adorable. It would’ve never come to mind to make these, but they came out SO good.
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Oh, these Santa Belly cookies are so cute! My daughter wants to bake cookies for her friends this year, so I’ll show her this idea for sure!
Oh wow those cookies look adorable! The colors and design are so well-made and neat. Thanks for giving me an idea!
Oh my goodness, I just love these cookies what a great idea to make for kids. I am definitely going to make these.
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These cookies are seriously cute! The kids would love them. I think they’d made a great Christmas give-away too. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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How pretty those cookies are. Thanks for sharing how to make them, I will try it.
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Oh goodness, those are adorable! I want to make them right meow!
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Those are so adorable!! Thanks for the tutorial- definitely going to give these a try!
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They are definitely the cutest cookies that I’ve ever seen. I’m going to pin this for Christmas. Bet my husband who is kinda sorta a grinch would love those cookies. LOL.
Those are some really cute cookies. 🙂 I haven’t seen them before either. 🙂
I love these cookies!! They are so cute and look easy enough to do but I’m sure I would totally mess them up. Great tutorial!!
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Those are wicked cute! I’m not very crafty and not sure if I could pull this off but can’t wait to try making these.
This is too cute! I’m definitely making these this year – thanks for the super cute idea!
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That is simply adorable! I know that my children would enjoy something like this.
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What a cute holiday baking idea! My daughter and I are doing some baking this weekend and I am going to show her these cookies.
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These are gorgeous, I would love to be able to recreate these cookies.
OMG these are the absolute cutest cookies ever. They look hard, I might try my hand.
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These are really adorable!!! I love these cookies and it’s perfect on the Christmas table.
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These are so darn cute! I’m not that great at cookie decorating, it can be harder than it looks, but I’d like to try these, the instructions make it very doable!