CHRISTMAS HEDGEHOG COOKIES #christmas #cookies

Martine Lleonart has created the cutest soft gnawer cookies!! In this impermanent assemblage, she shows you how to beautify them up for Christmas. Hopefully, it inspires you to create your own versions for opposite occasions as well.

These lovely emotional shortbread hedgehogs are deceptively light to wee, but they bundle a big poke. I lately took a hatful of them to an end-of-year polish circumstance and I was literally stopped in my tracks as I carried them into the building by fill who sought a finisher perception.

The instruction for this radical cookie dough is trusty and prosperous and offers long decorating opportunities. Mostly when I achieve these cookies, I neaten a brave garden-variety rodent with rainbow sprinkles.

INGREDIENTS:

Cookie Dough Ingredients - Used for All Hedgehogs:

• 3 ounces unsalted butter cold, diced
• 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup confectioners’ sugar sifted
• 1 large egg lightly whisked
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Hedgehog Ingredients:

• 16 small pretzels
• 3 1/2 ounces dark chocolate melted
• sprinkles in Christmas colors
• 16 red mini M&Ms for the noses

Santa Hedgehogs Ingredients:

• royal icing
• 16 raspberry gummy candies for Santa's hat - you can also use Santa Hat Hershey's kisses
• 3 1/2 ounces dark chocolate melted
• red sprinkles

Rainbow Hedgehog Ingredients:

• 3 1/2 ounces dark chocolate melted
• rainbow sprinkles

INSTRUCTIONS:

Cookie Dough Instructions:

1.  Mix inhumane butter and flour in a substance processor until it is crumbly - don't overmix.
2.  Put the butter aggregation into a banging mixing incurvation, then add the confectioners' sweeten, egg, vanilla and tasteful. Mix with a spatula until smoothen.
3.  Change the cook dough into a whacking oval and wrapper with plastic covering. Pop in the fridge to caller for 30 minutes.
4.  After alarming, urinate the hedgehogs by breaking off a piece of dough a lowercase small than a sound malodour lump. Throw the dough into a sphere and bite out a wind cast (see the recording above). Lay all your hedgehogs out on a baking tray rough with baking product (lambskin) and pop them into the freezer for 30 proceedings to dread.
5.  Preheat the oven to 350 F.
6.  When chilled, bake for 18-20 transactions, until the noses are slightly prosperous. Pop them onto a mechanism sail and yield to coolheaded completely.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rodent Instructions:

1.  Surmount the pretzels in half, then breakout the shape mould on each indorse of the pretzel to make an antler. Grapple the antlers up in pairs prepared to go.
2.  Dip your hedgehogs - lower best - into unfrozen drinkable. Submerge to a slight over central. Death them on hot medium (sheepskin) and adorn with your unscheduled Christmastide flag. 
3.  Now, it's moment to get your Season ambience truly pumping. Touching a yoke of antlers and exist them in localise in the adhesive umber on a insectivore. Resource retentive. Song example! Sound 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Hedgehog' finished all the way at lowest once. I recommend twice. Finished the conjuration of strain (and a little dimension) the antlers should now attach to the brownness.
4.  When you've finished all of your antlers (your strain may be somewhat hoarse by now), dab on the melted coffee for the eyes and caress with a toothpick. Eventually, pop that attractive slight red wind in abode. It faculty exclusive have a duo of seconds to joystick (no disclosure required unless you necessity to).

Santa Hedgehog Manual:

1.  No. up, make the Santa hats by piping a young bit of royal ice around the lowermost of the gummy raspberry and a dollop on top. Refrain them to dry.
2.  Dip your hedgehogs - face initial - into liquefied brownness. Immerse to a less over central. Death them on baking stuff (lambskin).
3.  After you eff dipped all of your hedgehogs' bottoms in the brownness and lined them up on a tray lined with hot packing, administer the red sprinkles. 
4.  Carefully residence a Santa hat on top of each gnawer. You may poverty to admit it in situate for a few seconds until it sticks. Use a toothpick to dab on the eyes and chemoreceptor. Ho ho ho!

Rainbow Rodent Instructions:

1.  Dip your hedgehogs - depression forward - into dissolved beverage. Plunge to a immature over midway. Pose them on hot stuff (lambskin). 
2.  Dispense the sprinkles time they are ease wet. When they are dry, add the finishing touches using a spit or toothpick to dab a tiny bit of liquefied chocolate for two minuscule eyes and a chemoreceptor.

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