• Line a baking sheet with Parchment Paper
• Color most of your sugar cookie dough with red food coloring
• Take a small amount - maybe about 1/2 cup of dough and color it green for the leaves
• Use wax paper to roll out the red dough onto
• Use the round cookie cutter to make red circles
• Place about 6 circles onto the baking sheet lined with Parchment paper
• Take the craft sticks and slide them under the apples
• Roll out the green sugar cookie dough
• Use a small circle to cut little circles out of the green - cut them in half and shape the circle halves into leaves
• Press the leaves onto the apples
• Bake according to the sugar cookie recipe directions
• Slide the baked cookies off by pulling the parchment paper onto a cooling rack with the cookies still on the paper

for a caramel apple look:

• Mix a small amount of chocolate frosting into a bowl of vanilla frosting to make a light beige color
• Once the cookies have cooled, spread the beige frosting onto the bottom of the cookie and sprinkle with nuts