Recipe - Basic Icebox Sugar Cookies

1 cup Allpurpose flour
One fourth teaspoon Baking soda
1/8 teaspoon Salt
4 tablespoon Stick margarine; softened
2/3 cup Granulated sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 lg Egg white
Cooking spray

(Cooking Light)

1. Combine the first 3 ingredients in a bowl, and set aside. Beat margarine
at medium speed of a mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar,
beating at medium speed of a mixer until wellblended. Add vanilla and egg
white, and beat well. Add flour mixture, and stir until wellblended. Turn
dough out onto wax paper, and shape into a 6inch log. Wrap log in wax
paper, and freeze for 3 hours or until very firm.

2. Preheat oven to 350°.

3. Cut log into 24 (1/4inch) slices, and place slices 1 inch apart on a
baking sheet coated with cooking spray. (For slicing, they recmmend either
using dental floss, or a sharp knife). Bake at 350° for 8 to 10 minutes.
Remove from pan, and cool on wire racks. Yield: 2 dozen (serving size: 1
cookie).

Variations: CHOCOLATE ICEBOX COOKIES: Reduce flour to Three fourths cup and add 1/4
cup unsweetened cocoa powder with the dry ingredients.

PEANUT BUTTER ICEBOX COOKIES: Reduce margarine to 3 Tablespoons, add 2TB
peanut butter, and change the 2/3 cup sugar to One half cup brown sugar +
One fourth cup granulated sugar.

BROWN SUGAR ICEBOX COOKIES: Instead of the granulated sugar, use 2/3 cup
brown sugar.

LEMONCORNMEAL ICEBOX COOKIES: Reduce flour to Three fourths cup and add One fourth cup
yellow cornmeal with the dry ingredients. Also, increase the 2/3 cup
granulated sugar to Three fourths cup, and add 2 tsp grated lemon rind with the wet
ingredients.

There are even additional variations listed in the magazine under each of
the above categories which I won't include but they all sound yummy! I
highly recommend this double issue thumb through it at the store. I am
not affiliated with Cooking Light, I'm just a happy subscriber.

CALORIES 59 (31% from fat); FAT 2g (sat 0.4g, mono 0.8g, poly 0.6g);
PROTEIN 0.7g; CARB 9.6g; FIBER 0.1g; CHOL 0mg; IRON 0.2mg; SODIUM 50mg;
CALC 2mg
Posted to Digest eatlf.v097.n296 by Darby Stanfill
dstanfill@integrityonline.com on Nov 21, 1997