Title: Hot Shades Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 18 servings
3 c All-purpose flour
1 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
3/4 c Butter; softened
1/2 c Shortening
1 1/2 c Granulated sugar
1 Egg
1 ts Lemon extract
4 Rolls fruit-flavored life
-savers
Or other colorful hard candy
Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 8/5/96
In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt; set
aside.
In a large mixer bowl, beat butter and shortening together. Add sugar
and beat until light and fluffy; beat in egg and extract. With mixer at low
speed, gradually blend in flour mixture just until well-mixed. Turn dough
out onto a sheet of plastic wrap, cover with another sheet, flatten into a
disc and chill until firm, 15 to 30 minutes.
While the dough is chilling, give each child a few 3-by-5-inch index
cards. Cut each card to resemble a pair of sunglasses (just the frames, not
the temples); set patterns aside. Divide Life Savers by colors. Place each
color in a freezer-weight zipper-sealed plastic bag and crack coarsely with
a tin can or meat mallet.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place about half the dough on a surface
lightly sprinkled with flour. Sprinkle dough lightly with additional flour
and roll to about 1/4-inch thick. Lay sunglasses patterns on dough and cut
around. Cut holes for "lenses" out of each cookie, leaving "frame" at least
1/2-inch wide all around. Lift cookies onto a lightly greased, foil-lined
baking sheet. Spoon crushed candy into lens holes, filling level with top
of cookie. Bake 7 to 9 minutes; let cool completely on sheets. Carefully
peel off foil. Yield: 18 large cookies.
