Spring Hat Cookies

Use a 2-round cookie cutter for the hat brim and roll 1/2 teaspoon dough out of scraps into a ball for hat crown.

Bake cookies (hat brim and hat crown separately), 1 sheet at a time, for 6 to 8 minutes at 400 degrees F until bottoms and edges just begin to brown. Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Add food color a small amount of frosting at a time to get the desired shade (colors dry slightly darker). Spoon some icing into separate cups, add more food coloring and cover with plastic wrap. Reserve this for piping. Attach baked crown to center of baked brim with a dab of icing.

Stir drops of water into the paler icing until thin enough to spread with a small metal spatula or your finger without leaving marks, but thick enough not to run off sides of cookies. Spread to edges of cookies.

Spoon un-thinned icing into decorating bag fitted with piping tip. Pipe ribbon around crown of bonnet (spread into a band with your finger or a toothpick). Pipe flat ribbon as desired. Use holiday cake sprinkles for flowers.