Chocolate Snowflake Cookies
Source of Recipe
Christmas Cheer
List of Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter or margarine -- softened
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
2 3/4 cups flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Drinking straw
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Recipe
In large bowl, combine sugar and butter. Beat until light and fluffy.
Add
milk, vanilla and egg; blend well.
Add flour, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda. Mix well.
Cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour for easier handling.
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
On lightly floured surface, roll out 1/3 of dough at a time to 1/8"
thickness. (Keep remaining dough refrigerated.)
Cut with floured 2 1/2" star-shaped cookie cutter. Using drinking
straw,
punch random holes in cutout stars. Place 2" apart on ungreased cookie
sheets.
Bake for 8-11 min. or until set. Immediately remove from cookie
sheets. Cool
15 min. or until completely cooled. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
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