Last night, I attended a cookie exchange with some of the other wives from my husband's squadron. I make a mean sugar cookie but they always look so plain so I decided to jazz them up! Of course, I couldn't just throw a few sprinkle on top. Our squadron's mascot is the bengal tiger so I decided to make little tiger cookies. I can't miss an opportunity to make food into art! These were actually so easy! I started with my good old sugar cookie recipe:
Ang's Famous Sugar Cookies
2 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
-Preheat oven to 375 degrees
-In small bowl, stir flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
-In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth.
-Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually add dry ingredients.
-Roll into rounded teaspoon balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
-Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes on regular cookie sheet, 12 minutes on stoneware.
So here's how these little dough balls turned into tigers....
Once the balls were rolled, I made two fat little triangles for each ball.
Then I stuck the triangles on the little balls and smoothed the edges to attach, kind of the playdough technique.
After baking, I had a little tiger head!
I gathered my decorating supplies: gel frosting tubes and little ball sprinkles.
I placed two orange stripes between the ears and on the sides of the face.
Then a black stripe in between the orange stripes, an upside down triangle for the nose and a smile! :)
Next, the white triangles in the ears and two white blobs for the eyes.
Last, one black sprinkle in the center of each eye. 
They ended up looking a little surprised (!) but still cute! YUM!
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