Cookie Lei Recipe

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Capture the spirit of Hawaiian hospitality with this sweet make-ahead lei that even kids can help assemble. Start with packaged butter cookies, frost them to create brilliant blooms, then thread them on shoestring licorice to resemble a traditional floral necklace.

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Cookie Lei Recipe

Prep: 35 min. + drying

Yield: 10 Servings

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Ingredients

1-2/3 cups confectioners' sugar
4-1/2 to 6 teaspoons water
3/4 teaspoon light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Purple and deep pink gel or paste food coloring
21 butter cookies with cutout centers
Yellow colored sugar
1 piece shoestring licorice (30 inches)

Directions

In a bowl, beat the confectioners' sugar, water, corn syrup and vanilla until smooth. Evenly divide frosting among three bowls. Tint one purple and one pink; leave the remaining frosting white. Frost cookie tops. Immediately dip the white frosted cookies in colored sugar. Let stand, uncovered, until dry, about 6 hours.
String cookies onto licorice piece, forming a lei. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 21 cookies (1 lei.).

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 276 calories, 8 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 6 mg cholesterol, 144 mg sodium, 51 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Cookie Lei in Quick Cooking March/April 2002, p49