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Recipe: Family Tree Cookies
Similar Categories: Family, Tree, Cookies
1 1/2 c Firmly-packed brown sugar
2/3 c Crisco shortening
1 tb Water
1 ts Vanilla
2 Eggs
1 1/2 c All-purpose flour
1/3 c Cocoa
1/4 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
2 c Miniature semi-sweet
-chocolate chips
-----ICING-----
2 c Icing sugar
3 tb Water; (3 to 5)
Decoration:; (optional)
Spearmint leaf-shaped gum
-drops
Sugar cookie leaves
=; (cut from scraps of
Sugar shield cookies: opt)
1. Preheat oven to 375F (180C). Line cookie sheet with foil. 2. Combine
brown sugar, shortening, water and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium
speed of electric mixer until well blended. Beat eggs into creamed mixture.
3. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Mix into creamed mixture at
low speed just until blended. Stir in chocolate chips. 4. Refrigerate dough
at least one hour. Keep refrigerated until ready to use. Roll dough into
ropes 1/2 inch (1 cm) in diameter. Join 2 or 3 ropes to form tree trunk at
bottom of cookie sheet. Shape remaining dough on foil-lined baking sheets
into tree branches. 5. Bake at 375F (180C) for 9 to 11 minutes, or until
cookie is set. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove
cookie with foil from baking sheet and cool completely. Peel foil from back
of cookie. 6. For icing, combine icing sugar and 3 tablespoons (45 mL)
water. Mix to blend well. Add additional water, a little at a time, if
icing is too stiff. Add additional icing sugar if icing is too thin. Place
icing in pastry bag fitted with small round writing tip. Alternately, place
in small resealable plastic bag. Snip very small hole off one corner of
bag. Pipe names onto branches of trees. 7. If using cookie leaves tint
remaining icing with green food colouring. Ice sugar cookie leaves. Attach
to branches with icing. Attach spearmint leaves to branches with icing
(optional). Makes: 2 tree cookies
2/3 c Crisco shortening
1 tb Water
1 ts Vanilla
2 Eggs
1 1/2 c All-purpose flour
1/3 c Cocoa
1/4 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
2 c Miniature semi-sweet
-chocolate chips
-----ICING-----
2 c Icing sugar
3 tb Water; (3 to 5)
Decoration:; (optional)
Spearmint leaf-shaped gum
-drops
Sugar cookie leaves
=; (cut from scraps of
Sugar shield cookies: opt)
1. Preheat oven to 375F (180C). Line cookie sheet with foil. 2. Combine
brown sugar, shortening, water and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium
speed of electric mixer until well blended. Beat eggs into creamed mixture.
3. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Mix into creamed mixture at
low speed just until blended. Stir in chocolate chips. 4. Refrigerate dough
at least one hour. Keep refrigerated until ready to use. Roll dough into
ropes 1/2 inch (1 cm) in diameter. Join 2 or 3 ropes to form tree trunk at
bottom of cookie sheet. Shape remaining dough on foil-lined baking sheets
into tree branches. 5. Bake at 375F (180C) for 9 to 11 minutes, or until
cookie is set. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove
cookie with foil from baking sheet and cool completely. Peel foil from back
of cookie. 6. For icing, combine icing sugar and 3 tablespoons (45 mL)
water. Mix to blend well. Add additional water, a little at a time, if
icing is too stiff. Add additional icing sugar if icing is too thin. Place
icing in pastry bag fitted with small round writing tip. Alternately, place
in small resealable plastic bag. Snip very small hole off one corner of
bag. Pipe names onto branches of trees. 7. If using cookie leaves tint
remaining icing with green food colouring. Ice sugar cookie leaves. Attach
to branches with icing. Attach spearmint leaves to branches with icing
(optional). Makes: 2 tree cookies
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