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Spiral Snowman Cookies

Ropes of cookie dough coil up to make these tasty snowmen—simple child's play.
Prep Time: 1 hour 30 min
Total Time: 1 hour 30 min
Makes: 2 dozen cookies
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1pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix
2tablespoons Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1/3cup butter or margarine, softened
1egg
Coarse white decorating sugar
Red cinnamon candies
Small multicolored candies
Miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1tube (0.68 oz) Betty Crocker® black decorating gel
Large gumdrops
Betty Crocker® Whipped frosting (any flavor)
1.Heat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, flour, butter and egg until soft dough forms.
2.On lightly floured surface, place heaping tablespoon of dough; roll dough into a 10-inch rope. On ungreased cookie sheet, loosely coil 1 end of rope into circle to make head. Loosely coil other end of rope in opposite direction for body. Repeat with remaining dough, placing cookies about 2 inches apart.
3.Sprinkle each cookie with coarse sugar. Add cinnamon candies for buttons, multicolored candies for nose and chocolate chips for eyes.
4.Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
5.Pipe black gel for mouths. For each hat, on surface sprinkled with sugar, flatten gumdrop into hat shape; attach to head of snowman with small amount of frosting.
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Special Touch
Holiday party? Turn the kids loose shaping all the cookies—it's like playing with clay but the results are yummy.

Nutrition Information:

1 Cookie (Undecorated): Calories 110 (Calories from Fat 40); Total Fat 4 1/2g (Saturated Fat 2g, Trans Fat 1g); Cholesterol 15mg; Sodium 80mg; Total Carbohydrate 16g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 9g); Protein 1Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%; Vitamin C 0%; Calcium 0%; Iron 0Exchanges: 1/2 Starch; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Vegetable; 1 Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 1 
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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