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Author
Food Network Kitchen | 2023-07-18
Description
Red velvet and cream cheese frosting is a match made in heaven, and here we just changed the usual cake to a cookie for hand-held eating. The dark-red tree shapes get contrast from bright green frosting and are decorated with a gold star on top and colorful nonpareils. This recipe is written for decorations with a classic holiday motif, but feel free to use other candies or sprinkles if you like. Note that the butter and sugar aren't creamed together until light and fluffy as they are in many other cookie doughs; adding too much air to the dough will cause it to rise and spread during baking and could change the cookies' iconic Christmas-tree shape. Chilling the dough until very cold also helps prevent spreading; you can use the freezer to chill the dough faster if you're in a hurry.
