Flower Cookies

Flower Cookies

Equipment
Measuring cup and spoons
Mixing bowl
Mixing spoon
Cookie sheet
Parchment paper
12 wooden craft sticks

Ingredients
1 stick (½) cup butter,
Softened
¼ cup of light brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup of flour
12 bite-size candy bars without nuts

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. In the mixing bowl, stir the butter and brown sugar together.
Stir in the flour. Form the dough into a ball in the bowl with your hands. If the dough is sticky, stir in more flour, 1 tablespoon at a time.
Cover the cookie sheet with parchment paper. Unwrap the candy bars, Insert a stick into the side of each candy bar.
Place a tablespoon of dough in the palm of your hand. Flatten it into a disk. Place one of the candies on a stick in the center of the dough disk.
Wrap the dough completely around the candy. Make the other pops the same way. Place the on the cookie sheet. Slightly flatten each pop with the palm of your hand.
Bake the cookies 18-20 minutes, until the edges are golden. If the cookies split open while they bake, gently press the edges together while they are cooling. Let them cool completely. Then decorate with petals.
Pretty Petals
Ingredients
15 large marshmallow
1 tube of icing, any color
12 skittles candy pieces
Equipment
Scissors or kitchen shears
2 ½ yards of green ribbon
Ruler

Wash the scissors and dry them, Snip each marshmallow into 4 slices.
Cover the face of each cookie with colored icing. Carefully press 5 marshmallows slices into the frosting to look like flower petals. Put skittle candy in center (Or you can using yellow frosting instead)
Cut 7 inch pieces of ribbon. Tie them around each stick to look like leaves.


I did this as one of the cooking classes for 4-H The Girls loved them!