Makes 12-18 cookies
(depending upon size)
1 box of lemon-flavored cake mix (or whatever flavor you want them to be)
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil
Orange Tic-Tacs & chocolate chips (or other decor of your choosing)
Optional:
Yellow food coloring (to make brighter yellow)
Coconut or yellow sugar crystal sprinkles
1. Combine cake mix, eggs, & oil in a large bowl and mix until dough forms.
2. Add yellow food coloring (if desired).
3. GREASE a cookie sheet.
4. Roll a ball for the body (about 1 1/2") and a smaller ball for the head and put on cookie sheet touching each other. (You may want to flatten them a little and mush the 2 balls together a little for a prettier end result.)
5. Sprinkle with yellow sugar sprinkles.
6. Bake for 10-12 min. at 350, or until they are barely starting to brown.
7. Remove from oven & immediately add candy for faces.
8. Cool on rack.
SEE! Told you it was easy!
My Notes:
1. If you add a lot of food coloring or it's really humid, you may need to add extra flour to the dough until it gets un-sticky enough for you to roll it into balls. Otherwise, you'll just make a huge mess & get frustrated!
2. The original recipe says to roll the balls in coconut flakes before putting them on the baking sheet. I'm not big on coconut (and I didn't think toddlers would be, either), so I chose to use yellow sugar crystal sprinkles instead.
3. The original recipe says to use pastel yellow petite mints (petite non pareils) for the beaks...but I couldn't find such a delicacy at Wal-Mart...so I went the orange Tic-Tac route!
4. Per Melissa's suggestion on my Facebook page, these would also make great snowmen for winter!
Hope everyone has a HAPPY EASTER!!!
