Dirty diaper cookies

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Dirty Diaper Cookies - makes approximately 10 cookies

Ingredients:

1 tube of Pilsbury Sugar Cookie dough (or your favorite rolled sugar cookie dough recipe)

Flour for rolling out dough

Assorted Hershey's Mini Candy Bars

4 ounces chocolate candy coating

1/2 cup milk

3 cups powdered sugar

Cut out a paper triangle, sized 8.5"x7"x7". Flour your surface well and roll out the dough.

Image: 2 Roll out dough

Place the paper triangle on top of the rolled out dough and use a knife to cut as many triangles shapes as you can. (Repeat this with any remaining dough you have after cutting the first set of triangles.)

Image: 3 Cutting triangles

Place an unwrapped candy bar in the center of each dough triangle and fold the diaper, starting with the bottom corner first, then the right & left corners.

Image: 4 Wrapping diaper1, 5 Wrapping diaper2, 6 Wrapping diaper3, 7 Wrapping diaper4

Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.

Image: 8 Baked diapers

Remove from the oven and allow the cookies to cool on wire racks for at least 30 minutes.

Image: 9 Cooling diaper cookies on wire rack

Put 4 ounces of chocolate candy coating in a bowl and heat in a microwave for 30 seconds. Stir and repeat heating until completely melted. Allow it to cool (but not harden) in the bowl for 5-10 minutes before attempting to make chocolate pins.

Image: 10 Ingredients for chocolate pins

Print a copy of safety pin images (download available here) and place a sheet of parchment paper over the printout. Using a #1 or #2 decorator tip on your piping bag, pour the melted chocolate into the bag. Begin piping the chocolate over the pin images. The first couple will look terrible, trust me. But the more you make, the better you'll get. Make more than you need so that you can pick the best ones for your finished cookies. Allow the chocolate pins to cool and harden on the parchment paper.

Image: 11 Piping chocolate pins

Mix 1/2 cup milk and 3 cups powdered sugar in a bowl to make an icing glaze.

Image: 12 Mixing glaze topping

Pour the glaze frosting over the cookies. (For convenience, I like to use a plastic ketchup/mustard bottle.)

Image: 13 Glazing cookies

Allow the glaze to drip off the sides and dry.

Image: 14 Drying cookies on wire racks after glazing

While the glaze is drying, carefully take the pins off the parchment paper and attach them to the fronts of the diaper cookies. The drying glaze will secure them in place.

Image: 15 Attach chocolate pins on top

Now you can entertain your guests with a sweet (albeit dirty) treat! These cookies double as a baby shower game if you can have everyone guess which mini candy bar is inside their "dirty diaper."

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