Recipe - Christmas Angel Cookies

One half cup Shortening
One half cup Cream cheese, softened
1 cup Light brown sugar,*
One half cup Granulated sugar
2 Eggs
3 cup Flour
One half teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Vanilla
2 cup Candied fruit, mixed
2 cup Broken pecans or almonds

* firmly packed

The cream cheese gives these cookies a smooth texture, while the fruits
sparkle and sweeten the flavor. Nice for using the candied fruits that
didn't make it into the fruit cake.

Preheat oven to 350ø.

In a large bowl, cream shortening and cream cheese until smooth and
fluffy. Add sugars and eggs, mixing well. In a seperate bowl, sift flour,
baking soda and salt together.

Add flour mixture to egg and sugar mixture; add vanilla. Mix well. Add
candied fruit and nuts.

Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto lightly oiled cookie sheet and bake at 350ø
for about 1012 minutes. The cookies will be just browned at the edges.

Hint: You may have to mix candied fruit and nuts in with your hands; a
little shortening on your fingers will keep the mixture from sticking.

Yield: 3 dozen. Irene Holloway, Chevy Chase, MD

Randy Shearer

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini