Sugar Cookies with Maple Frosting

Name: Sugar Cookies with Maple Frosting
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 18
Ingredients: 1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated sugar cookie dough; 1/4 all purpose flour; 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar; 4 tablespoons maple syrup; 1 teaspoon vanilla; Food coloring if desired

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Prep 10 min
Total 30 min
Servings 18

Sugar cookies frosted with a simple maple frosting. MORE+ LESS-

By Girl Who Ate Everything

Updated December 29, 2014

Make with

Pillsbury Cookie Dough

Ingredients

roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated sugar cookie dough

1/4

all purpose flour

Frosting:

1 1/4

cups powdered sugar

tablespoons maple syrup

teaspoon vanilla

Food coloring if desired

Steps

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1

Preheat oven to 350°F.
2

Sprinkle flour on a dry surface and knead the sugar cookie dough into the flour forming a ball.
3

Roll out the dough and cut out with leaf cookie cutters or other assorted fall shapes.
4

Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes. Let cool.
5

To make the frosting, combine powdered sugar and vanilla in a small bowl. Whisk in the maple syrup, a little at a time, until the mixture reaches a spreadable consistency.
6

Spread frosting on cookies and add sprinkles if desired. Let cookies set before eating.

Nutrition Information

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More About This Recipe

Get those little fingers limbered up -- they've got a job to do: Making cute cut-out cookies for fall!

What I’ve learned baking with kids is that you have to keep things super simple and fast to keep their attention and to avoid a huge mess.

My kids love helping me in the kitchen and I love having their help as long as they have clean hands (germ freak alert!).

Pillsbury sugar cookie dough is a great way to start your cooking adventure with your kids because all the hard work is done, leaving the fun decorating part for you and your kids to enjoy. All you need are some colorful sprinkles, some fun fall cookie cutters like leaves and pumpkins, and some quick toppings.

My son helped me roll out the dough with a little flour. We cut out some leaves and pumpkins using some inexpensive cookie cutters I bought at my local craft store.

Here are some easy toppings that you and your kids can use for your sugar cookies:

Three Easy Sugar Cookie Toppings

1) Cinnamon Sugar: Before baking, sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on your sugar cookies for a fall-flavored bite.

2) Peanut Butter: Spread some of your favorite creamy peanut butter on your baked sugar cookies and sprinkle with some fall colored sprinkles.

3) Maple Frosting: With some powdered sugar and a couple of drops of maple syrup, you can have a fast and easy maple frosting that adds a fall twist to plain sugar cookies.

Cooking with your kids is a fun and different way of spending quality time. It doesn’t have to be complicated … just easy and tasty fun!

More Sweet Fall Fun

Here are a few more recipes to get the oven fired up:

Autumn Striped Refrigerator Cookies Recipe
Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies Recipe
No-Roll Sugar Cookies Recipe
Two-Tone Leaf Cookies Recipe
Sugar and Spice Shortbread Sticks Recipe

If you're a cookie lover, check out our Cookie Recipes collection, too!

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Do you bake fall cookies?