Recipe of the Week
SPOOKY COOKIES KEEP UP SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN
Now more than ever before, it is our duty as adults to show our children how resilient America is. It�s in this spirit of �let�s go,� but never forgetting, that we keep up our Halloween customs. We will dress our children in costumes as usual and send them or take them trick-or-treating.
That having been said, let�s get to the purpose of this food column. Here is a recipe for a favorite molasses cookie developed in the test kitchens of Land O�Lakes. Cut them in traditional Halloween figures. You don�t have that kind of cutters? No problem. Use a plain round cutter and decorate the cookies with frosting and sugar to make them suit the occasion.
Make moon crescents, jack-o�-lantern faces, spider webs, cats and cone-shaped witches� hats. Let the kids help.
HALLOWEEN MOLASSES COOKIES
1/2 cup Land O� Lakes butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoon vinegar
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Frosting*
1. Combine butter, sugar, molasses, egg and vinegar in large mixer bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy, 2 to 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg; beat, scraping bowl often, until well-mixed, 1 to 2 minutes. Divide dough into thirds; wrap in plastic food wrap. Refrigerate until firm, 2 hours or overnight.
2. Heat oven to 350 F. Roll out dough, one-third at a time (keeping remaining dough refrigerated) on surface covered with mixture of equal amounts of flour and sugar, to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with assorted 2- to 3-inch cookie cutters. 3. Place 1-inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until no indentation remains when touched. Let stand 1 minute. Cool completely. Frost as desired (recipe follows). Yields about 4 dozen cookies.
*FROSTING
4 cups powdered sugar (confectioners�)
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 to 4 tablespoons milk
Decorator sugars
Combine powdered sugar, butter and vanilla in small mixer bowl. Beat at low speed, scraping bowl often and gradually adding enough milk for desired spreading consistency. Decorate cooled cookies with frosting and decorator sugar, as desired.
(c) 2001 King Features Synd., Inc.
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