Recipe - Bunny Cookies

3 cup All purpose flour ·
2 teaspoon Baking soda ·
1 One half teaspoon Ground ginger ·
One half teaspoon Ground cinnamon ·
One half teaspoon Ground cloves ·
One fourth teaspoon Salt ·
One half cup Solid vegetable shortening ·
One half cup Sugar ·1 egg ·
One half cup Molasses ·
1 One half teaspoon Cider vinegar

Use your favorite bunny cookie cutter to make these charming cookies, or
use the pattern you cut out of cardboard. You will need: ·

How to Make Your Bunny Cookies

Step 1 Sift together flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt
onto waxed paper.

Step 2 Beat together shortening, sugar and egg in large bowl with electric
mixer until fluffy, for about 3 minutes. Beat in the molasses and cider
vinegar. Stir in flour mixture until blended and smooth. Gather dough into
ball; wrap and chill for several hours.

Step 3 Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Divide dough in half. Roll out half of
the dough with lightly floured surface to generous 1/8inch thickness. Keep
remainder of dough refrigerated while working with first half.

Step 4 To use a bunny pattern, draw a pattern onto a piece of cardboard.
Make sure ears are attached to the head. Cut out pattern. Place pattern on
dough and trace with a toothpick. Cut out cookies. Place 1 inch apart on
lightly greased baking sheets. Reroll scraps, using up all the dough.
Repeat with remaining dough.

Step 5 Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 57 minutes or until firm.
Transfer to wire rack to cool completely. Step 6 If you wish to decorate
cookies, prepare Decorator Icing, tinting portions if you wish. Decorate
cookies as desired. Let cookies stand until icing is firm. Store in
airtight container between sheets of waxed paper for up to 2 weeks.

Decorator Icing Prepare one recipe Royal Icing, using packaged meringue
powder and following the directions on the package. Dried meringue powder
is best for uncooked frostings due to the increased concern about the
presence of salmonella bacteria in raw eggs. Meringue powder is available
in stores where decorating and baking supplies are sold.

Posted to recipeludigest by LSHW shusky@erols.com on Mar 23, 1998