I can't believe how simple it was to make this easy Grinch cookie recipe. In just a few minutes, I had cookies baked and ready for icing--and just a few minutes later and we were chomping down!
Course Dessert
Cuisine Holiday
Keyword easy grinch cookie recipe, grinch christmas cookies recipe, grinch cookies recipe, how the grinch stole christmas cookies, recipe for grinch cookies
1Cup(s)aquafabaabout 1/2 cup or 2 eggs (I ran out of eggs so I used bean juice)
1Cup(s)sugar
1 ½tspn vanilla extractclear
2tspn baking powder
3Cup(s)flour
Icing
6Cup(s)powdered sugar
½Cup(s)aquafabaor 2 egg whites
½tspn vanilla extract
Neon green food coloring
Yellow food coloring
Black gel decorating icing
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350-degrees.
Cream sugar and oil together.
Add aquafaba (or eggs) and extract, mixing thoroughly. Set aside.
Mix flour and baking powder together in a second bowl.
Add flour to the sugar bowl and mix thoroughly.
Dough will be crumbly, but turn it out anyway--it's fine.
Roll out the dough to a consistent 1/4-inch to 1/2-inch thickness.
To make the Grinch faces, I squeezed a pumpkin cookie cutter a little. Then, when it was narrow, I pulled the bottom down a little to make it look a little longer. I even pinched the stem a little to make a tighter "hair" on his head.
Cut your cookies out of the dough, and, with some leftover cookie dough, make an additional sprig of hair to add to the Grinch's head.
Move the parchment paper to a baking sheet.
Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
Allow the cookies to cool to room temperature while you whip-up the icing.
Combine all the icing ingredients in a small bowl and mix until creamy.
Place 5-8 tablespoons of icing into another bowl.
With the bigger amount of icing, add 4-6 drops of neon green food coloring and 3-5 drops of green food coloring. Stir until consistent throughout.
With the smaller portion of icing, add 8-10 drops of yellow food coloring. Stir until consistent. Set yellow icing aside, covered.
Place green icing into a decorating bag with your smallest round tip.
Pipe the outer edge of the cookie and immediately fill this in to cover the face of the grinch cookie.
Set each cookie aside and allow to dry for 2-3 hours.
Using the yellow icing, pipe the outline of an eye shape (flat on top and canted inward for an evil look) on each side of the face in the more narrow area.
Allow they yellow icing to dry.
With the black gel icing, add bushy eyebrows, eyeballs and eyelash to each of the grinch faces.
Also with the black gel icing, give each Grinch a nose and wicked, wonky smile.