SHAMROCK COOKIES

YOU NEED 

• Ingredients for your favorite rolled cookie dough 
• Green food coloring 
• Green sprinkles 
• 1-2-inch heart cookie cutter 
• Cookie sheet 
• Rolling pin 
• Flour 
• 1 egg, beaten 
• Small, clean craft paint brush 
• Wire cooling rack 
• Spatula 

DIRECTIONS 

1. Prepare cookie dough according to your favorite recipe.  Add desired amount of green food coloring to the wet  ingredients before adding the dry ingredients. Chill. 
2. On a floured surface, roll the green dough to 1/8” thickness.  Use the cookie cutter to cut 4 hearts to make each  shamrock cookie. 
3. Overlap the points of 4 hearts in the center and press the points so they stick together and the hearts form a shamrock shape. 
4. Brush the top of the shamrock with beaten egg and sprinkle it with green sprinkles. 
5. Bake according to recipe directions—until the edges of the cookie begin to turn golden brown. 
6. Use the spatula to remove the cookies from the pan to the  cooling rack. Cool completely.