1986 Winner: Rolled Animal Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients : 1986 Winner: Rolled Animal Cookies Recipe
1 cup Butter, softened
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
2 tbsp Whipping cream
1 tsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla
3 cups Sifted all-purpose flour
Decorations: colored sugar
Raisins, chocolate
Sprinkles, chocolate chips
Preparation time: 45 minutes Chilling time: Several hours Baking time: 7
minutes
1. Cream butter. Gradually add sugar and cream well. Blend in the egg,
cream, baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla. Gradually add flour
and mix well. Chill dough until firm, several hours (it is hard to roll
out otherwise). 2. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Roll out dough on a
floured board to about 1/8- inch thick. Cut into desired shapes with a
flour-dipped cookie cutter. Place on ungreased or lightly greased cookie
sheet. 3. Decorate with colored sugar and chocolate sprinkles and use
raisins or chocolate chips for the eyes of the animals. Bake for 5-7
minutes or until a little brown. Cool on racks. Don't forget to cut the
little holes if you wish to hang on the tree. Note: Dough will keep
several days or a week in the refrigerator if you don't get around to
cutting right away. I store the cookies in tightly covered tins and they
are very good keepers if the children don't find them. Winner Beverly
Bergstrom of Hinsdale recounts making rolled animal cookies: "We called
them animal cookies although there were many cutters that were not
animals. We would cut small pieces of paper drinking straws and insert
them in the top of each cookie and then bake them. The little piece of
straw was removed just as the cookies came from the oven, leaving a
perfect little hole to put a colored string through so the cookie could be
hung on our huge Christmas tree. "My sister and I would always make sure
lots of the cookies were hung around the back of the tree. The tree was
in the corner of the living room leaving a space behind, where we could
crawl in. A favorite pastime during the holiday season was to lie on the
floor behind the tree and using no hands, take tasty bites of the cookies,
leaving behind the empty strings decorating the tree. Grandma would
always pretend anger when she 'discovered' the empty strings and no
cookie. It was a good game." from the Chicago Tribune annual Food Guide
Holiday Cookie Contest December 4, 1986
Converted by MC_Buster.
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