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Show HOLIDAY SEASON CALLS FOR SPECIAL CHRISTMAS COOKIES I Ai - , A' ' - 1 Cookie time is any time, but most especially at Christmas. With friends dropping in unexpectedly un-expectedly during the holiday season, children home from school, and lots of entertaining, a good supply of special Christmas Christ-mas cookies is a "must." So get out your most colorful tray and plates and arrange an assortment as-sortment of bright butter cookies cook-ies on them. To make your cookies really special, as cookies for Christmas Christ-mas deserve to be, use these recipes that call for butter as the key ingredient. Butter enriches en-riches the cookies, and it has an incomparable natural flavor that improves their taste. NOEL COOKIES 7 dozen cookies 400 oven 10-12 minutes cup softened butter 1 cups sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 2H cups sifted cake flour 1H teaspoons baking powder Yi teaspoon salt cup candied cherries, finely chopped Few drops red food coloring 1 square baking chocolate, melted Yi cup finely chopped pecans 2 tablespoons coconut, chopped Yi teaspoon almond extract Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Sift dry ingredients and add to the egg mixture. Divide the; dough into thirds. To one part add the chopped cherries and red coloring; to the second add the chocolate and chopped nuts, and to the third add the chopped coconut and almond extract. Line a small bread pan (7Vfex 2x") with waxed paper. Put the cherry batter on the bottom, bot-tom, then the chocolate, then the coconut. Cover with waxed paper and chill for several hours or overnight in the refrigerator. refrig-erator. Cut in y8 inch thick slices and cut each slice into thirds. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 10-12 minutes in a 400 oven. Cook on cake racks. CHOCOLATE NUT CLUSTERS 50-60 cookies 350 oven 10 minutes 2 squares baking chocolate, melted 1 cup sifted flour teaspoon salt Yi teaspoon baking powder Ys cup softened butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 cups coarsely chopped pecan meats MINT FROSTING: Y cup softened butter ZYs cups sifted confectioners sugar Vi teaspoon peppermint extract 2-3 teaspoons milk or cream Few drops green food coloring Melt chocolate. Sift dry ingredients. in-gredients. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. addi-tion. Add vanilla and melted chocolate, then sifted dry ingredients in-gredients and nuts. Drop from a teaspoon onto a greased cookie sheet and bake in a 350" oven for 10 minutes. When cool frost with green mint frosting. MINT FROSTING: Cream butter and half of the sugar. Add mint extract and remaining remain-ing sugar. Add enough milk or cream to make the frosting of "spreading consistency, then tint a pale green with food coloring. Spread on the chocolate cookies. CHRISTMAS CHERRY COOKIES 5 dozen cookies 350 oven, 12-15 minutes Yi cups sifted flour Yt cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder Yt cup softened butter 1 egg, beaten 1 tablespoon milk Yi teaspoon almond extract Yi cup chopped almonds Candied cherries Sift flour, sugar and baking powder together. Combine with butter until the mixture resembles resem-bles meal. Mix egg, milk, and almond extract and add. Fold in chopped almonds and chill the dough in the refrigerator until it can be handled. Form the dough into small balls and place on greased cookie sheets. Press a candied cherry in the center at each and bake in a 350 oven for 12-15 min. Cool on cake racks. |