Football Cookies

Designed to mimic a game day football field, these creative football cookies are certain to score a touchdown wherever they are served. Follow my step by step instructions to create this colorful design, and you will most certainly be named the MVP of sweet treats!

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 13

Decorating time 45

Servings cookies

5 from 12 votes

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Equipment

1 3½ to 4 inch round cookie cutter
2 squeeze bottles
2 piping bags
4 sets of couplers (see Ingredient and Equipment list, above)
#2 and #3 round piping tips

Ingredients

1 recipe Vanilla Orange Sugar Cookie dough
1 recipe Royal Icing for Decorating Cookies
Green and yellow gel paste food coloring (see Ingredient and Equipment list, above)
lemon juice
1½ cups rainbow non-pareil sprinkles

Instructions

Cut out and bake round sugar cookies according to the instructions in my Vanilla Orange Sugar Cookies recipe.
Prepare one batch of my Royal Icing Recipe for Cookie Decorating.
Place one cup of icing into each of two small bowls. Tint one yellow and leave the other one white. Using lemon juice, thin the icings only slightly to piping consistency, so that they are less stiff but still not runny and will hold their shape when piped. Transfer the yellow icing to a piping bag fitted with a coupler and a #3 round tip. Transfer the white icing to a piping bag fitted with a couple and a #2 round tip.
Divide the remaining icing into two bowls. Color one green and leave the other one white. Using lemon juice, thin the icings to "two step" consistency (see post for Royal Icing for Cookie Decorating) and carefully transfer each color to a squeeze bottle. Top each bottle with a coupler. Place a #3 round tip on top of each bottle.
Using the white icing in the squeeze bottle, pipe and fill half of one of the round cookies, creating a semicircle shape. While icing is still wet, sprinkle the top with the rainbow colored non-pareils, filling the white surface completely and gently shaking off extras. Repeat with remaining cookies.
Using green icing, pipe and fill the remaining semicircular area of each cookie. Allow the icings to set for at least one hour.
Using the white icing in the piping bag, pipe 5 evenly spaced field lines, with the center line perpendicular to the yellow line and the four side lines slightly slanted, as in the photo.
Pipe a "5" and a "0" on either side of the center line to represent the 50 yard line.
Using yellow icing, pipe a line down the center of each cookie, diving the rainbow colored "crowd" from the green "field." Allow cookies to dry at least 5 hours or overnight.

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Notes

Be sure to refer to my post on Royal Icing for Decorated Cookies for detailed information on icing consistencies, decorating tools, and ingredients.
This recipe makes a large amount of cookies. If you don't need quite so many, you can halve the recipe both my Vanilla Orange Sugar Cookie dough and my Royal Icing.