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Moon Cookies

These cookies are just sweet enough to please both children and adults. The dough is easy to work with and doesn't require refrigeration--an important consideration when working with children.

Ingredients

  • 1 C. Softened butter
  • 1 C. Sugar
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla (or almond flavoring)
  • 3 C.Flour
  • Frosting in white or light yellow
    (use canned or make butter cream frosting using your favorite recipe)
  • Yellow sugar sprinkles
  • Candy corn
  • Mini chocholate chips

    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
    2. Cream together butter and sugar.
    3. Beat in the egg and flavoring.
    4. Add flour 1 C. at a time, mixing well after each addition.The dough will be very stiff. DO NOT CHILL.
    5. Roll 1/2 of the dough at a time. Roll 1/4" thick.
    6. Cut with moon-shaped cutters or cut with a round cutter and then cut in half to make the crescent moon.
    7. Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 10-12 minutes or until just lightly browned on the edges (Watch carefully--your oven may vary and cookies will burn quickly once they start to brown.)
    8. Remove from oven and allow to cool on the cookie sheet for about 5 minutes before removing to a cooling rack.

    9. When cookies are cool, frost.
    10. Sprinkle with yellow sugar
    11. Add a candy corn nose and chocholate chip eye.

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