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Shamrock
Chocolate Cookies
A simple, basic chocolate cookie recipe can be jazzed
up for St. Patrick's Day with just a little touch of
green. All you need is a round pasty cutter to make the
leaves of the shamrocks.
In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, egg and
vanilla until light and fluffy. Stir together flour, cocoa,
baking powder, baking soda and salt; then add to butter mixture,
blending well. Refrigerate about 1 hour or until firm enough
to roll.
Heat oven to 325 degrees. Roll dough, a small
portion at a time, to 1/4 inch thickness (on lightly floured
surface or between 2 pieces of wax paper) Using a cookie
cookie cutter, cut into shamrock shapes; place on ungreased
cookie sheet. Bake 5-7 minutes or until no indentation remains
when lightly touched. Allow to cool slightly, then remove
from cookie sheet, and place on wire rack to cool some more.
Frost.
SHAMROCK
GLAZE
In small saucepan over low heat, melt butter.
Remove from heat. Blend in powdered sugar and vanilla. Gradually
add milk, beating until it's the desired consistency. Blend
in 2-3 drops green food color. Makes about 1 cup of glaze.
St.
Patrick's Day Cupcake Kit
Make 24 large cupcakes for
your St. Patrick's Day celebration! Includes shamrock-design
cupcake papers; and bright green sugar shamrocks.
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Ingredients
1/2 c Butter or margarine
3/4 c. sugar or sucanat
1 Egg
1 tbsp. pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 c. All-purpose flour
1/3 c. Hershey's Cocoa
1/2 tsp. Baking powder
1/2 tsp. Baking soda
1/4 tsp. Salt
SHAMROCK GLAZE
3 tbsp. Butter or margarine
2 c. Powdered sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
3 tbsp. Milk
Green food coloring
Makes 36 cookies
Shamrocks
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Sucanat is
basically dehydrated sugar cane with little to no processing,
making it an excellent source of iron, calcium, vitamin
B6, potassium and chromium, which helps balance blood sugar. Malitol is
a bit more expensive, but is a little less sweet than actual
sugar. What's nice about Sucanat is you can use in a 1:1
ratio wherever you'd use sugar. It's the same kind of reason
why the brown rice syrup is better for you than the corn
syrup you can read
about it here.) You can get more info about using nutritious,
natural sweetener substitutes here.
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