Jack & Jill Cookies
Buttery oatmeal cookie pops on sticks, decorated with frosting, chocolate sprinkles, and gumdrops to look like little boy and girl faces. A fun baking project for kids.
YIELD
36 cookiesPREP
10 minCOOK
30 minREADY
40 minThese oatmeal cookies on sticks are part baking project, part craft activity. The base is a solid butter and oat cookie that’s sturdy enough to hold up on a wooden skewer, and the decorating is where kids can really go wild: frosting faces, chocolate sprinkle hair, gumdrop eyes, noses, and mouths.
The dough benefits from an hour in the fridge before shaping. Chilling firms up the butter so the balls hold their shape and flatten evenly when pressed with a sugar-dipped glass. The wooden sticks get inserted before baking so they’re locked in as the cookies set.
Once cooled, frost with a basic confectioners’ sugar icing and let the decorating begin. Stand the finished cookie pops upright in large gumdrops as a base so they display like little edible puppets.
Pro Tips
- Dip the glass bottom in sugar before each press. It prevents sticking and adds a sparkly sugar crust to the top.
- Insert the sticks halfway into each flattened ball before baking. Push too far and they poke through the top.
- Let the frosting set completely before standing the cookies upright. Soft frosting smears on contact.
Variations
- Use chocolate frosting instead of white for a different face color and flavor.
- Add food coloring to the icing for brighter, more colorful faces.
- Skip the face decorations and drizzle with melted chocolate and sprinkles for a simpler cookie pop version.
Ingredients
Directions
Beat butter until creamy.
Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy.
Blend in egg and vanilla.
Sift together flour, soda and salt.
Add to creamed mixture; blend well.
Stir in oats. For ease in handling, chill dough about 1 hour.
Shape to form 1-inch balls.
Place on ungreased cooky sheets.
Flatten slightly with bottom of glass dipped in sugar.
Insert flat wooden stick or wooden skewer into each.
Bake in preheated moderate oven (375 F. ) 10 to 12 minutes; cool.
Frost cookies with confectioners’ sugar frosting.
Attach chocolate shot for hair and gumdrop pieces for eyes, nose and mouth.
For girl cookies, pipe a bow onto hair with thick frosting.
Tie a ribbon bow onto stick for boy’s bow tie.
When frosting is set, insert sticks into large gumdrops so that cookies stand up.
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