1994 2nd Place Surprise Packages

Title:
1994 2nd Place Surprise Packages

Yield:
36 Servings

Categories:
Cookies,
Holiday




Ingredients:





     1 c  Unsalted butter, softened


 2 1/4 c  All-purpose flour


   1/3 c  Confectioners'sugar, sifted


     1 ts Pure vanilla extract


     1 ts Water


    36    Thin layered chocolate


          Mint wafers (or other


          Flavor miniature


          Chocolates), unwrapped





-----------------------------------ICING-----------------------------------


          Confectioners' sugar


          Milk


          Food color, colored


          Sprinkles as desired





  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 until thoroughly


 combined.  Beat in the remaining flour.


  3. Use a scant 1 tablespoon of dough and press it flat and thin with your


 hands. Put a chocolate mint wafer in the center and fold the dough 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 Skokie, 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


 Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #338


 


 From: Linda Place 


 


 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:22:58 +0000