Surprise Packages
Source of Recipe
Carol Feezell
Recipe Introduction
1994 2nd Place: Surprise Packages Recipe
List of Ingredients
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup confectioners'sugar, sifted
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 tsp water
36 each thin layered chocolate
1 mint wafers (or other
1 flavor miniature
1 chocolates), unwrapped
ICING
1 confectioners' sugar
1 milk
1 food color, colored
1 sprinkles as desired
Recipe
Preparation time: 2 hours Cooking time: 15 to 20 minutes
1. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Have ready ungreased baking sheets.
2. Beat butter in large bowl of electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in half of the flour, the sugar, vanilla and water untilthoroughly combined. Beat in the remaining flour.
3. Use a scant 1 tablespoon of dough and press it flat and thin withyour hands. Put a chocolate mint wafer in the center and fold thedough over to completely cover each chocolate and to form a neat,rectangular package. Pinch the edges to seal. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets.
4. Bake until bottoms are lightly browned, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool a few minutes on the baking sheets and then cool completely on wire racks.
5. For icing, mix confectioners' sugar and milk to make a thin icing; color icing as desired. Use a small spatula to ice cookies. Decorate as desired so cookies resemble Christmas packages.
For variety, second-place winner Carol Feezell of Illinois uses several kinds of miniature candies in her pretty cookies. She suggests filling the cookies with chocolate mint wafers, such as Andes, or Hershey's Miniatures. We also enjoyed Lindt's orange chocolate thins when we made the cookies in the Tribune test kitchen.
from the Chicago Tribune seventh annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 8, 1994
YIELD: 3 Dozen
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