>From the Cook's Recipes website...
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Frosted Holiday Angels
Frosting Ingredients:
2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 to 3 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Food color
Angel Ingredients:
Sugar ice cream cones - Angel Body
Small or large pretzel twists - Wings
Chocolate or vanilla wafer cookies - Head
Toasted coconut
Fruit-flavored ring-shaped candies - Halo
Decorations Ingredients:
Mini candy-coated chocolate pieces, decorator candies or sprinkles, decorator
gels and frostings, gum drops, mini chocolate chips, etc.
1. Combine all frosting ingredients in small mixer bowl. Beat at low
speed, scraping bowl often, until fluffy. Tint frosting as desired in pastel
colors. Reserve some white or yellow frosting for attaching heads, hair and
faces.
2. Place sugar cone upside down; frost. Attach pretzel twist to cone
with frosting to make wings. Decorate angel body as desired with decorator
gels, frostings and candies. Let stand 5 to 10 minutes to set.
3. For angel head, decorate wafer cookie with candies using frosting to
attach eyes, nose and mouth. Attach head to cone with frosting.
4. For hair, spread thin layer of frosting on top and back of cookie;
cover with coconut. Let stand until frosting is set (5 to 10 minutes). Place
fruit-flavored ring-shaped candy on top of cookie for halo.
Makes 8 angels.
Tip: To toast coconut: Heat oven to 350°F. Spread coconut in shallow pan. Bake
for 7 to 10 minutes, stirring often, until lightly browned.
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~~~***Rhonda G in Missouri***~ ~~
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