Button Cookies

image & recipe @spoonful.com

What you'll need

• Batch of sugar cookie dough (homemade or store bought)
• Food coloring
• Plastic kitchen gloves (for kneading food coloring into the dough)
• Rolling pin
• Flour
• Wax paper
• Small round cookie or fondant cutters (about 2 1/4 inches wide)
• Small bottle cap (slightly smaller than the fondant cutter)
• Wooden kitchen skewer
• Spatula
• Baking sheet
• Wire rack

How to make it

1. Divide the dough into thirds or quarters. Then knead a different shade of food coloring into each portion of dough. Chill the dough so that it will be stiff enough to hold its shape while baking.
2. When you're ready to start baking, work with one color of dough at a time. Roll the dough out to about a 1/4-inch thickness and use the cookie or fondant cutter to cut out a bunch of small circles. If you like, use a small bottle cap to gently imprint an inner circle on some or all of the buttons.
3. Use the blunt end of the kitchen skewer to make a set of two or four buttonholes in the center of each cookie.
4. Place the cookies on a baking sheet and bake them according to the recipe directions. Transfer the baked cookies to a wire rack to cool before serving. Enjoy!

Toy Story, Jessie Cowgirl Hat Cookies Recipe

image & recipe @MagicalRecipes.com

Ingredients

1. Tray
2. Waxed paper
3. Batch of chilled sugar cookie dough (homemade or store bought)
4. Flour
5. Rolling pin
6. 2-inch round cookie cutter
7. Spatula
8. Baking sheets
9. Wire cooling racks
10. Red cookie icing
11. Butter knife or spatula for spreading the icing
12. Large red gumdrops
13. Tube of white decorator's icing (with a narrow round tip to pipe on the lacing)

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Directions

1. Cover the tray with waxed paper and set it aside.
2. Roll out the sugar cookie dough between sheets of flour-dusted waxed paper to a 1/4-inch thickness.
3. Cut out the cookies and place them on the tray.
4. Place the tray in the refrigerator to chill the cookies while you heat the oven to the proper temperature.
5. When the oven is heated, transfer the cookies to a baking sheet.
6. Bake and cool them according to the recipe directions.
7. Turn the cookies upside down so the flat surfaces are facing up and then frost them with the red icing.
8. Once the icing has set, add a top to each hat by slicing the domed top off of a red gumdrop.
9. Squeeze a quarter size dollop of white decorator's icing onto the bottom of the gumdrop and gently press it down onto the center of the cookie so the icing spreads around the base and resembles a white hatband.
10. Pipe a line of trim around the perimeter of each cookie hat brim.
11. Pipe a series of short lines over the top of the trim to resemble white lacing.