Pumpkin-Patch Cookies
Source of Recipe
Aunt Saunny
3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1-1/2 cups butter or margarine, softened
1/4 teaspoon orange paste food coloring
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup homemade or purchased creamy chocolate frosting
18 green jelly beans, cut crosswise in half
1. In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour and baking powder. Set
flour mixture aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl beat butter or margarine and food coloring
with an electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar and
beat until fluffy.
3. Add egg and vanilla, then beat well. Stir in flour mixture. Do not
chill dough.
4. Put the flower plate onto a cookie press. Pack dough, half at a time,
into the cookie press. Press dough into flowers on ungreased cookie
sheets.
5. Bake in a 400 degree F oven for 7 to 8 minutes or until cookies are
just light brown around edges. Remove cookies to a wire rack, then cool
completely.
6. Spread the flat side of half of the cookies with some frosting. Top
with remaining cookies to form pumpkins. For stems, attach one jelly
bean half to the top of each cookie with frosting. Let stand for 1 to 2
hours or until frosting is slightly dry.
Makes 36 cookies.
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