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Firecracker Pie Crust Stars

Firecracker Pie Crust Stars - made with store-bought pre-made pie crust dough cut-out with various star-shaped cookie cutters, slathered with butter then liberally sprinkled with colored sugar and baked, these cookies are the perfect sweet/salty combo that's so addicting! Get this easy and festive 4th of July Patriotic party recipe at www.tootsweet4two.com.
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These 4th of July treats have a surprise bit of heat from white pepper added to the sugar. Don’t want these cookies spicy? Just leave it out!

Ingredients

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  • 1 package of 2-crust refrigerated pie crust dough
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground white pepper (optional)
  • 1/4 cup red sprinkles
  • 1/4 cup white sprinkles
  • 1/4 cup blue sprinkles

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  2. In small bowl, mix granulated sugar and white pepper; set aside.
  3. Line 3 baking trays with parchment paper.
  4. Prepare a lightly floured surface to work on (I used the backside of a very large wooden cutting board).
  5. Carefully unroll dough onto the lightly floured surface and using star shaped cookie cutters, press the cutter into the dough to cut out the cookies.
  6. Transfer each cut-out to parchment-lined cookie sheets.
  7. Using a pastry brush, brush each cookie liberally with unsalted butter.
  8. Sprinkle sugar/pepper mixture over each cookie (I used a cheese shaker – one of those kind you find at a pizza restaurant; it made distributing the sugar very easy – and fast!).
  9. Sprinkle one pan of cookies with white sprinkles, another with red sprinkles and the other with blue sprinkles (that way you can keep the colors from melting together).
  10. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes (do not overbake because they will taste too done).
  11. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 2 minutes.
  12. Transfer to wire rack to finish cooling.
  13. When they are cool to the touch, use your fingers to pick off the extra sugar that will attach on the edges of each cookie.

Notes

By using cookie cutters of various sizes, I was able to make more than 3 dozen cookies from one package of dough. Once I cut out as many cookies as I could, I wadded up the remaining dough and then using a rolling pin, re-rolled it to 1/4-inch thickness and cut out more cookies. Also, don’t use salted butter. Pie crust dough is salty enough and if you use salted butter, your cookies will be too salty! Lastly, you made need more sugar! Depending on how sweet you want these, you need to liberally cover them with sugar. I wanted my cookies to have deep, dense color, so I used quite a bit of sprinkles.

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