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Creative cookie puzzle

This cookie puzzle can be anything your kid's imaginations can come up. Having a variety of cookie cutters on hand is a way to help that imagination grow. They can also use any colors of food coloring they wish. Show them how the frosting can change from a light color to a dark color with just a few extra drops.

Ingredients

1 pk dough (refrigerated cookie dough)
3⁄4 c frosting (vanilla frosting)
  coloring ( food coloring, blue, green, yellow and red)
3 chocolate (chocolate mini chips)

Instructions

Preset the oven temperature to 350 degrees and line a 13 X 9 inch cake pan with foil bring it up and over the sides of the pan.

Cut the dough lengthwise then crosswise into 4 pieces.

Place one piece of dough into each of the corners of the pan.

Using your fingers press the dough out until all 4 pieces meet in the middle then press the pieces together.

Bake the dough for 18 minutes or until the edges are beginning to brown.

Cool in the pan on wire rack for 20 minutes.

After the cookie cools 20 minutes place the pan in the freezer for 30 minutes.

Remove the pan and carefully lift the cookie out of the pan by using the foil handles.

Use cookie cutters to cut out 3 fish shapes, a boat, a tree and a round sun.

Remove 1/2 of the frosting and place in a bowl.

Stir blue food coloring in the frosting to reach the color of water.

Divide the remaining frosting into 3 bowls and tint one green, one yellow and one red.

Frost the large piece of cookie with the blue frosting.

Frost the sun yellow, the boat yellow and green and the tree top only with green.

Frost the fish red and place 1 chocolate chip on each fish for an eye.

Replace the puzzle pieces and enjoy.

Yield
24 servings
Preparation time
120