Little Lamb Cookies

In like a lion, out like a lamb. Celebrate Spring or Easter with these 3-D little lamb cookies. The kids will love playing with these cookies as much as they enjoy eating them! Get creative and try to make other animals.

Ingredients:

chocolate dough

frosting

sheep cookie cutter

white food coloring

sharp knife

ruler

1 disposable decorating bag

1 coupler

1 size "4" decorating tip

1 rubber band

Get the recipe for the cookie dough and icing over at the Decorated Cookie.

Directions:

Roll out your chilled cookie dough according to the recipe. For each sheep cut out one sheep and two stands. Your sizing will depend on your cutter (my sheep was about 3 inches), but use the diagram as a guide.

I rolled the dough about 1/4 inch thick. I cut off the sheep's legs--oh how awful that sounds--and made tab openings at the bottom about 1/2 inch tall and 1/2 inch wide.

Then for the stands, I cut rectangles (1 1/2 inches wide by 1 inch tall) and made the tab openings slightly larger than 1/2 inch wide and 1/2 inch tall. Bake your cookies and let cool completely.

Prepare frosting and tint about a cup with white coloring.

Fill a frosting bag fitted with a size "4" tip. Outline sheep body as shown. Be careful not to put frosting where the stand tabs will go! Your sheep will look sort of odd at this point, and that's OK. Let outline set about 15 minutes, and pipe to fill. To pipe, I just made little swirly designs, but my frosting wasn't too thick, so it all sort of blended together.

Slide the sheep onto the two stands where the tab openings meet. That's it!