Flower Sugar Cookie

Name: Flower Sugar Cookie
Ingredients: Basic Sugar Cookies Recipe; Small, round candies; Pink food coloring

Transform your favorite sugar-cookie dough into sweet flowers with just the tip of a knife and some round candies.

Martha Stewart Living, April 2014

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Credit: Burca Avsar

Step 1
Roll room-temperature dough (for a blush hue, add 1 or 2 drops of pink food coloring) into 1-inch balls.

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Step 2
Cut 6 evenly spaced radial slits in each, about three-quarters of the way to the center.
Step 3
Press a finger into the centers to spread out the petals, then drop a candy in each indentation.
Step 4
Before baking, refrigerate on a parchment-lined baking sheet until firm. Bake according to the recipe.

For the centers, you can use any small, round candies, like Italian "confetti" or candy-coated chocolate or peanut-butter pieces.