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Brighten your Christmas spread with a sweet string of lights! The thick, creamy vanilla frosting highlights our best-ever shortbread cookie. Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened |
1 cup margarine, softened |
1 cup sifted powdered sugar |
4 cups all-purpose flour |
1 teaspoon baking powder |
1/2 teaspoon salt |
frosting |
20 to 25 chocolate-flavored candy coating drops, melted |
red or black licorice, cut into 8 |
Directions:
1. Beat butter and margarine at low speed of an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to butter mixture. Mix at low speed until blended. Roll dough to 3/8 thickness on a lightly floured surface.
2. Cut out cookies, using a 3 spade-shaped cookie cutter (or use template on page 149). Place on ungreased baking sheets. Make a hole in socket end of each cookie, using a straw.
3. Bake at 350° for 16 minutes. Let cookies cool on wire racks.
4. Spread Frosting on the bulb end of each cookie, using the back of a small spoon. Place frosted cookies on wire racks to dry. When frosting is dry, brush socket end of each cookie with melted chocolate, using a small brush. Let dry. When cookies are completely dry, lace licorice strips through holes in cookies. Place tissue in a large flat box, if desired. Arrange cookies in a loose circle on tissue paper to resemble a string of Christmas lights.
5. Note: Use these cookies as tree ornaments or as edible place cards at a children's party. Write names on frosted cookies using tubes of decorating gel.
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