Sombrero Pinata Cookies

Steps

• 1

  Preheat oven to 325ºF. Spray a whoopie pie pan and two brownie pop molds with baking spray. Then mix cookie mix with flour, butter and egg.
• 2

  Divide dough into four equal parts. Color one part red, one yellow, one blue and one green.

  
• 3

  Divide each colored dough into 8 equal pieces, about a tablespoon each. Roll into balls. Press half of the dough balls into the cavities in the whoopie pie pan. (You'll want to fill 4 cavities per color, and may have to bake the cookies in two batches.)

  
• 4

  Bake for 10-12 minutes until golden brown around the edges. Allow to cool.

  
• 5

  Increase oven temperature to 350ºF. Press remaining dough balls into individual cavities in brownie pop silicone molds, making 4 hat crowns of each color. Use your finger to create a well in the center of each dough ball. Press the dough up the sides of the mold, up to the fill line, about 1/4 inch from the top of the mold. Freeze molds for 10 minutes, then bake for 14 minutes.

  
• 6

  Remove from oven and use the handle of a wooden spoon to reshape the well in the cookies.

  
• 7

  Return to the oven for 4-8 minutes until cookies are baked through. Reshape if needed. Allow to cool completely, then remove from mold.

  
• 8

  Pipe a line of cookie icing around the base of each cookie crown. Sprinkle on some non-pareils. Allow to dry.

  
• 9

  Turn cookie crowns upside down, fill with candies, pipe some icing around the top edge, and press a round cookie brim onto the cookie crown to create the sombrero. Turn cookies right side up to decorate.

  
• 10

  Use icing and sugar pearls to decorate the edges of the hat brims.