Snowflake Cookies
Warm from the oven, Morven Baker's sugary snowflakes are guaranteed to melt in your mouth. “One cookie is never enough,” she adds from Ashland, Ohio. So bake up a blizzard!48 ServingsPrep: 1 hour + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling
Ingredients
- 2 cups butter, softened
- 1-1/4 cups sugar, divided
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups cake flour
- 2 tablespoons edible glitter
Directions
- In a large bowl, cream butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in vanilla. Gradually add flour and mix well. Divide in half.
- Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until easy to handle.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out one portion of dough to
- 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 4-in. snowflake-shaped cookie
- cutter. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake at 300° for 8-10 minutes or until firm. Repeat with
- remaining dough. Chill and reroll scraps if desired.
- In a small resealable plastic bag, combine edible glitter and
- remaining sugar. Seal bag; crush mixture to break glitter into
- smaller pieces. Sprinkle over warm cookies. Cool for 5 minutes
- before removing to wire racks to cool completely. Yield: 4 dozen.
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Nutrition Facts: 1 cookie equals 131 calories, 8 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 20 mg cholesterol, 78 mg sodium,