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How to Decorate Butterfly Cookies Recipe

Simple recipe hack to assemble and decorate cookies to look like butterflies.
Prep Time20 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: butterfly, cookies, sugar cookies

Ingredients

  • Sugar Cookies
  • Green Food Coloring
  • Coconut Flakes
  • White Chocolate Pretzels
  • Skittles
  • Black Licorice
  • Frosting

Instructions

  • Mix the food coloring into the frosting & frost each cookie.
    Frosting cookies with green icing
  • Mix food coloring into the coconut flakes and stick to each freshly frosted cookie to create grass.
    Adding coconut to cookies as grass
  • Place a pretzel on each side of the cookie to create butterfly wings.
    Adding white chocolate pretzels as butterfly wings
  • Make a body using three skittles.
    Adding skittles for bodies and head of butterfly
  • Cut the black licorice into antennas and stick them on top of the skittle body row each at a diagonal.