Simple Halloween Cookies
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Ingredients
  • ¾ cup shortening (part butter, softened)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 & ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • FROSTING:
  • ⅓ cup soft butter
  • 3 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1 & ½ teaspoons vanilla
  • About 2 tablespoons milk
  • Drop or two of orange food coloring
  • Candy Corn
Instructions
  1. Mix thoroughly shortening, sugar, eggs and flavoring.
  2. Blend in flour, baking powder and salt.
  3. Cover; chill at least 1 hour. ( I chill it 3 hours or more.)
  4. Heat oven to 400 degrees.
  5. Roll dough ⅛ inch thick (I make mine thicker.) on lightly floured surface.
  6. Cut into desired shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheet.
  7. Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until very light brown.
  8. (I remove my cookies from the oven as soon as one begins to show a
  9. hint of brown, and let them finish baking on my insulated cookie sheets.
  10. FROSTING:
  11. Blend butter and sugar.
  12. Stir in vanilla and milk.
  13. Beat until frosting is smooth and of spreading consistency.
  14. Frost cookies with white frosting.
  15. Color small amount of frosting orange.
  16. Place orange frosting in plastic sandwich bag, and cut tiny opening in corner.
  17. Make smile, and add Candy Corn for eyes and nose.
Recipe by Hopelessly Hopeful at http://www.hopelessly-hopeful.com/2019/10/07/simple-halloween-cookies/