Play Dough Cookies

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 3 ounces cream cheese
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• assorted colors of paste food coloring
• 24 lollipop sticks

Recipe

• in a bowl cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
• in a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. stir till soft dough forms. divide dough into fourths. tint each with a different food color. wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.
• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). working with half of each color, shape dough into 3/4 inch balls and for each cookie place 1 pink, 1 green, 1 blue and 1 orange ball together to make 1 large ball. shape into a 12 inch long roll (like a snake), starting at one end, coil roll to make a 2 3/4 inch round cookie. place cookies 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet. carefully insert lollipop sticks into bottoms of cookies.
• bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. cool and store in an airtight container.