Recipe - 1986 Winner Rolled Animal Cookies

1 cup Butter, softened
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
2 tablespoon Whipping cream
1 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla
3 cup Sifted allpurpose 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 flourdipped 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 57 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 MMRecipes Digest V3 #340

From: Linda Place placel@worldnet.att.net

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