Recipe(tried): Jack-o-Lantern Cookies with Buttercream Icing or Orange Cream Cheese Icing
Desserts - Cookies, Brownies, BarsCourtney, This is my other fall stand-by:
JACK-O-LANTERN COOKIES
about 1 dozen
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg yolk
red and yellow food coloring
1 3/4 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
Cream together butter and sugars. Beat in the yolk, 4 drops of red, and 12 drops of yellow food coloring.
Stir remaining ingredients together, and add to butter mixture. Mix well.
Chill for 4 hours or overnight.
Roll dough to 1/4" thickness, and cut into pumpkin shapes with a cookie cutter. Using a small, sharp knife, cut triangle eyes and noses on half of the pumpkins.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 8 - 10 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack.
When completely cool, spread the non-face pumpkins with the icing, and top with the pumpkins with faces. DO NOT try to press the top cookies down to make the icing squeeze up through the cut-outs - it will just break the cookies.
For the icing, make a typical buttercream (a couple Tbsp of margarine or butter beaten with powdered sugar, plus enough milk to make it spreadable), but flavor the icing with a few drops each of vanilla, almond, and orange extracts, and add several drops of yellow food coloring.
These cookies are a little fragile, but they freeze well if no one shakes the container up or drops it on the floor, which is what usually happens at our house!
Again, these take a lot of time, but they're not really hard once you get the hang of icing them without breaking them.
Here is an alternate icing:
ORANGE CREAM CHEESE ICING
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
3 cups powdered sugar
2 Tbsp (thawed) frozen OJ concentrate (or use a couple drops of orange extract)
yellow food color
red food color
Stir it all together.
JACK-O-LANTERN COOKIES
about 1 dozen
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg yolk
red and yellow food coloring
1 3/4 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
Cream together butter and sugars. Beat in the yolk, 4 drops of red, and 12 drops of yellow food coloring.
Stir remaining ingredients together, and add to butter mixture. Mix well.
Chill for 4 hours or overnight.
Roll dough to 1/4" thickness, and cut into pumpkin shapes with a cookie cutter. Using a small, sharp knife, cut triangle eyes and noses on half of the pumpkins.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 8 - 10 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack.
When completely cool, spread the non-face pumpkins with the icing, and top with the pumpkins with faces. DO NOT try to press the top cookies down to make the icing squeeze up through the cut-outs - it will just break the cookies.
For the icing, make a typical buttercream (a couple Tbsp of margarine or butter beaten with powdered sugar, plus enough milk to make it spreadable), but flavor the icing with a few drops each of vanilla, almond, and orange extracts, and add several drops of yellow food coloring.
These cookies are a little fragile, but they freeze well if no one shakes the container up or drops it on the floor, which is what usually happens at our house!
Again, these take a lot of time, but they're not really hard once you get the hang of icing them without breaking them.
Here is an alternate icing:
ORANGE CREAM CHEESE ICING
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
3 cups powdered sugar
2 Tbsp (thawed) frozen OJ concentrate (or use a couple drops of orange extract)
yellow food color
red food color
Stir it all together.
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1 | ISO: Need ideas and recipes for a making a fall cookie basket. |
Courtney, Louisiana | |
2 | Recipe(tried): Chocolate Acorns (may be frozen) |
K/NorCal | |
3 | Thank You: Chocolate Acorns - thanks k 4 the reply |
courtney/ louisiana | |
4 | Recipe(tried): Leaf Cookies |
AJ in MD | |
5 | Recipe(tried): Jack-o-Lantern Cookies with Buttercream Icing or Orange Cream Cheese Icing |
AJ in MD | |
6 | Recipe(tried): Owl Cookies (repost) |
Micha in AZ | |
7 | Recipe(tried): Autumn Caramel Apple Cookies (repost) |
Micha in AZ | |
8 | Recipe(tried): Northwoods Maple Nut Cookies |
Micha in AZ | |
9 | Recipe(tried): Pumpkin-Pecan Cookies with Brown Sugar Butter Frosting |
Micha in AZ | |
10 | Thank You: Fall Cookie Basket Ideas - WONDERFUL!!!!!!!! |
COURTNEY/ LOUISIANA |
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