One 20-ounce roll of refrigerated chocolate chip or sugar cookie dough
2 baking sheets
1 metal spatula
Wire cooking rack
One 16-ounce can vanilla frosting
Assorted candy
You'll also need cookie makeup for the eyes, nose, and mouth.
Use hard candies, shoestring licorice, candy-coated fruit-flavored pieces, or chocolate pieces. Or, draw a face with decorating gel that comes in a tube.
To brighten the faces of your cookies, stir food coloring into the vanilla frosting before spreading it.
STEP 1
With adult help, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
With adult help, use the table knife to cut the roll of cookie dough crosswise into 6 equal pieces. Then place 1 piece of dough on a baking sheet. Next, pat the dough into a 4- to 5-inch circle. And repeat with the remaining 5 pieces of dough, spacing each circle about 3 inches apart.
STEP 2
Bake the cookies for 10 to 12 minutes or till the cookies are golden brown. Cool for 2 minutes on the baking sheet. Then use the metal spatula to transfer the cookies to the wire cooling rack. Cool the cookies completely.
STEP 3
Use the table knife to spread the frosting on the cooled cookies. Then, decorate each cookie any way you like with cookie makeup.