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ITALIAN PIZZELLES
December 26, 2010 
Ingredients:
3 eggs
3/4 cup cane sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup anise oil
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups unbleached white flour
2 tsp baking powder
Beat eggs & sugar together. Add melted butter, anise oil and vanilla. Sift flour and baking powder and add to mixture. Dough will be thick enough to drop by spoon.
Preheat pizzelle iron. Place approx. a teaspoon of dough in the center of each round. Close the iron. Check doneness in approx. 30 seconds. Adjust amounts and time accordingly.
GRANDMA MINNIE’S SUGAR COOKIES
Ingredients:
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
1 egg, lightly beaten
3 Tbsp cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 400 F. Over a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Cut in butter and blend with a pastry blender until mixture resembles cornmeal. Stir in lightly beaten egg, cream, and vanilla. Blend well. Dough may be chilled if desired. On a floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8 inch thickness. Sprinkle with sugar, and cut into desired shapes.
Transfer to ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 6-8 minutes, or until delicately brown.
MISTLETOE KISSES
250deg.
2 egg whites at room temp. (no yolk in them)
1 pinch salt
1/8 tsp. Cream of tartar
1/2 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup semi sweet choc. Chips
1/2 cup chopped nuts(NOT hazelnuts)
Beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Add the salt, cream of tartar, and flavouring. Gradually add the sugar while still beating. When the mixture becomes glossy and stiff peaks form when the beater is lifted out, stop beating and fold in the chocolate chips and nuts. Drop by tsp. onto foil-lined cookie sheets. Bake at 250 deg. For 40 min. Store in airtight container.
BIRD’S NESTS OR THIMBLE COOKIES
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter or shortening
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg yolk, beaten
few grains salt
1 cup sifted flour
1 unbeaten egg white
chopped walnuts, coconut, etc. For rolling
Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolk and flour. Roll the mixture into small balls and dip in egg white and roll in finely chopped nuts. Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 350deg. For 8 min. Remove from oven and press thumb or thimble in centre. Return to oven and bake for 10 to 12 min. Longer. Before serving, fill hollow with colourful jelly.
SHORTBREAD COOKIES for cookie press
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups sifted all purpose flour
1/4 tsp. Salt
3/4 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg yolk, beaten
1 tsp. Vanilla
Sift flour and salt tog. Blend butter and sugar . Beat in egg yolk. Stir in vanilla and sifted flour. Mix well. Put through cookie press onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 deg. For 10 min. Or until browned.
The dough may be shaped into balls by hand and pressed flat with the tines of a fork. Cookies may be topped with nuts, cherries or choc.bits before baking.