Mrs. Claus Cookies are buttery, tender holiday treats shaped like the jolly wife of Santa, complete with her signature red hat, golden glasses, and cheerful smile. They’re decorated with creamy, sugar-free white chocolate tinted in festive colors, making each cookie as fun to look at as it is to eat. Lightened ingredients keep them lower in calories without losing their soft texture and sweet, comforting flavor.
Melt the butter in the microwave, mix with powdered sugar and salt. Add vanilla extract and cream. Pour in flour in parts. First, mix the dough with a spoon. Transfer the dough to a board sprinkled with flour and knead until smooth.
Divide the finished dough into 4 equal parts. Form the cookies directly on the baking parchment. Roll each part of the dough into a ball and roll these balls into 1/4-inch-thick layers. Use a snowman cutter to form the base of Mrs. Claus. Trim the cookies with a round cutter.
Cut out snowflakes from the remaining dough and roll snowballs. Leave the board with cookie blanks in the refrigerator for 40 minutes. Bake in the oven at 374 F until lightly browned, about 10 minutes. Cool the products. Melt some of the chocolate and color it red. Draw the outline of the hats and fill the hats with chocolate.
Melt the remaining chocolate. Draw hair and eyebrows. Secure the eyes with chocolate chips and the mouth of the valentine. Color the remaining chocolate yellow. Use a pastry bag to apply glasses. Poke a hole with a toothpick and draw glasses. Cool the cookies in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Snowflakes can be covered in chocolate and sprinkled with sprinkles or served as is.
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Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.