Sunflower Cookies

Materials:

pre-made sugar cookie dough
sunflower-shaped cookie cutter
cookie Sheet
yellow food dye
green food dye
candy sticks or small wooden dowels
coconut
chocolate chips
florist or craft foam
terracotta pot
ribbon

1. Add yellow dye to plain sugar cookie dough and roll several small, walnut-sized balls for the centers of the sunflowers. Place on an insulated, even-bake cookie sheet and insert a stick into each (figure A).

3. Press chocolate chips onto centers (figure B).

4. Bake according to recipe instructions.

6. Dye coconut with green food coloring and sprinkle it into the pot as the "grass." Stick flower "stems" into the coconut and foam (figure C).