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	Santa Cookie

For other activities, see the Activities Chapter.

These cookies look so cute and yet are easy enough that even small children can help make them.

• Heat the white chocolate over low heat, stirring occasionally.
• Turn off the heat when the white chocolate has melted.
• Dip one end of the cookie into the melted white chocolate. Dip it at an angle so that about one third of the cookie is covered. It isn't necessary for both sides to get chocolate (actually it is less messy if you only coat one side).
• Place the cookie on the rack over the pan.
• Place a vanilla chip off center on the hat.
• Sprinkle red sugar for the hat. Leave a band of white at the bottom of the hat. Use a small piece of wax paper to make a straight edge. Hold it above the cookie; don't let it touch the white chocolate.
• Let the cookie lay until the white chocolate has set. You can set the cookies on the wax paper if there isn't enough room on the wire rack.
• Shake off the excess red sugar into the pan.
• Dip the other end as above into the white chocolate leaving the center third uncovered.
• Place on the wire rack.
• Scoop some white chocolate into the spoon and use it to attach the chocolate chips as the eyes and a red hot as the nose.
• Let sit until the white chocolate hardens.

Also, see the Santa neckerchief slide made from craft foam that looks like the cookie.

This is based on the recipe by Mary Kaufenberg in the Quick Cooking magazine.