We were invited to a Super Bowl party, and each guest was asked to bring a dish.
Since I'd rather bake than cook, I opted to take on the daunting task of creating jersey cookies for each team, the Patriots and the Giants.
Using a t-shirt cookie cutter, I began making my cut-outs with a bag of sugar cookie mix.
I bake a lot, but I generally do NOT go for cut-out cookies as my first option because I make the biggest mess using cookie cutters!
Instead of making a jersey for each team member on each team, I opted just to make jerseys for the offensive line starters on each team. This meant 11 cookies for each team, 22 total.
It took two bags of sugar cookie mix...and that was the easy part.
I had to look online to see what jersey each team would be wearing for the Super Bowl game. Giants will be wearing white. Patriots will be wearing blue.
I saw an online tutorial awhile back about outlining your cookies with icing before filling the cookie in with it. I did just that and it ended up being a saving grace because I did not have any icing dripping off the side of the cookies. The cookies looked clean and neat!
Once the icing outline hardened a bit, then I proceeded to fill in the cookie with icing that was just a bit thinner in consistency.
Now I had my 11 white Giant jerseys, and my 11 blue Patriot jerseys...
Then the hard part... Decorating the jerseys. The Giants white jersey has three red stripes on each sleeve and the Patriots have one red stripe on each sleeve and a red collar. Then I added each offensive starters name and # on a their jersey.
Brent thought it would be cool to take this picture, symbolizing exactly how the offensive players would be lined up during game time!
I can't wait to share these cookies at the Super Bowl Party!!!