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No-Bake Strawberry Cookies Recipe

These no-bake date and crisp rice cereal cookies are shaped into "strawberries" and topped with a colorful "stem". Serve them when you want to offer something fun and different.

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No-Bake Strawberry Cookies Recipe

Prep: 25 min. Cook: 5 min. + cooling

Yield: 24 Servings

25 5 30

Ingredients

1 package (8 ounces) chopped dates
1/2 cup flaked coconut
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 egg, lightly beaten
Dash salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups rice cereal
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Red colored sugar
Green candied cherries or green confectioners' icing

Directions

In a large skillet, combine the dates, coconut, sugar, butter, egg and salt. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture thickens and reaches 160° or is thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla, cereal and walnuts. Cool for 10 minutes.
With slightly moistened fingers, shape tablespoonfuls into strawberry shapes; roll in red sugar. Place on waxed paper-lined baking sheets. Decorate tops with pieces of green candied cherries or pipe leaves on strawberry tops with green icing. Yield: about 4 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 94 calories, 4 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 14 mg cholesterol, 49 mg sodium, 14 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 1 g protein.

Originally published as No-Bake Strawberry Cookies in Best of Country Cookies , p59