1986 Winner Rolled Animal Cookies

Title:
1986 Winner Rolled Animal Cookies

Yield:
48 Servings

Categories:
Cookies,
Holiday




Ingredients:





     1 c  Butter, softened


     1 c  Sugar


     1    Egg


     2 tb Whipping cream


     1 ts Baking powder


   1/2 ts Baking soda


   1/2 ts Salt


     1 ts Vanilla


     3 c  Sifted all-purpose flour


          Decorations: colored sugar,


          Raisins, chocolate


          Sprinkles, chocolate chips






 Preparation time: 45 minutes Chilling time: Several hours Baking time: 7


 minutes


 


   1. Cream butter. Gradually add sugar and cream well. Blend in the egg,


 cream, baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla. Gradually add flour


 and mix well. Chill dough until firm, several hours (it is hard to roll out


 otherwise).


 


   2. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Roll out dough on a floured board to about


 1/8- inch thick. Cut into desired shapes with a flour-dipped cookie cutter.


 Place on ungreased or lightly greased cookie sheet.


 


   3. Decorate with colored sugar and chocolate sprinkles and use raisins or


 chocolate chips for the eyes of the animals. Bake for 5-7 minutes or until


 a little brown. Cool on racks. Don't forget to cut the little holes if you


 wish  to hang on the tree.


 


   Note: Dough will keep several days or a week in the refrigerator if you


 don't get around to cutting right away. I store the cookies in tightly


 covered tins and they are very good keepers if the children don't find


 them.


 


   Winner Beverly Bergstrom of Hinsdale recounts making rolled animal


 cookies:   "We called them animal cookies although there were many cutters


 that were not animals. We would cut small pieces of paper drinking straws


 and insert them in the top of each cookie and then bake them. The little


 piece of  straw was removed just as the cookies came from the oven, leaving


 a perfect little hole to put a colored string through so the cookie could


 be hung on our huge Christmas tree.


 


   "My sister and I would always make sure lots of the cookies were hung


 around the back of the tree. The tree was in the corner of the living room


 leaving a space behind, where we could crawl in. A favorite pastime during


 the holiday season was to lie on the floor behind the tree and using no


 hands, take tasty bites of the cookies, leaving behind the empty strings


 decorating the tree. Grandma would always pretend anger when she


 'discovered' the empty strings and no cookie. It was a good game." from the


 Chicago Tribune annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 4, 1986


 Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #340


 


 From: Linda Place 


 


 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 11:32:57 +0000