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Ingredients

  • Cookie Sheet
  • Printed cut out of letters D and A
  • Sugar Cookie Dough
  • Wilton Decorating Icing
  • Piping Bag
  • Wilton extra large round decorating tip

Toppings

  • gumballs
  • sixlets
  • sprinkles
  • miniature sugar cookies
  • gummy bears
  • cracker jacks
  • licorice
  • other small candies.
  • Cake Board

Instructions

  • First, you’ll want to start with your favorite cookie dough.
  • First, roll out your dough on a floured surface.
  • Cut large printed letters out of dough with a paring knife. You’ll need to cut (4) D’s and (2) A’s.
  • Carefully move dough letters to baking sheet. Bake according to your recipe. (My recipe calls for 8-9 minutes at 375 F).
  • Let cookies cool completely before decorating.
  • Fill piping bag with white icing, fitted with a large round tip.
  • Holding your piping bag vertically, make dots of icing around one of each letter. Try to make the same size dot for even stacking.
  • When entire surface is covered, carefully place second letter on top of the first letter. Do not push top cookie down, gently set on top.
  • Repeat buttercream dots on top layer.
  • Once your cookie cake is covered in buttercream dollops, you can begin the fun part: decorating!
  • The great part about this cookie cake is that you can personalize it to whatever dad’s favorites are. Mine was a baseball theme so I added a few touches of green buttercream “grass” to set my mini baseball cookies into.
  • I added cracker jacks, little lollipops, chocolate bark and mini rice krispy treat pieces. Using a variety of different sized items creates great balance and makes your cookie cake unique!
  • For the finishing touch, I sprinkled the entire cake with rainbow non-pareils and then carefully placed the cake onto a cake board for serving.