Free Recipe Bunny Cookies

Recipe Type: Free Misc Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 1

Ingredients for Bunny Cookies Recipe

3 c All purpose flour ·
2 ts Baking soda ·
1-1/2 ts Ground ginger ·
1/2 ts Ground cinnamon ·
1/2 ts Ground cloves ·
1/4 ts Salt ·
1/2 c Solid vegetable shortening ·
1/2 c Sugar ·1 egg ·
1/2 c Molasses ·
1-1/2 ts Cider vinegar

Bunny Cookies Preparation

Use your favorite bunny cookie cutter to make these charming cookies, or use the pattern you cut out of cardboard. You will need: · How to Make Your Bunny Cookies Step 1 Sift together flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt onto waxed paper. Step 2 Beat together shortening, sugar and egg in large bowl with electric mixer until fluffy, for about 3 minutes. Beat in the molasses and cider vinegar. Stir in flour mixture until blended and smooth. Gather dough into ball; wrap and chill for several hours. Step 3 Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Divide dough in half. Roll out half of the dough with lightly floured surface to generous 1/8-inch thickness. Keep remainder of dough refrigerated while working with first half. Step 4 To use a bunny pattern, draw a pattern onto a piece of cardboard. Make sure ears are attached to the head. Cut out pattern. Place pattern on dough and trace with a toothpick. Cut out cookies. Place 1 inch apart on lightly greased baking sheets. Reroll scraps, using up all the dough. Repeat with remaining dough. Step 5 Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 5-7 minutes or until firm. Transfer to wire rack to cool completely. Step 6 If you wish to decorate cookies, prepare Decorator Icing, tinting portions if you wish. Decorate cookies as desired. Let cookies stand until icing is firm. Store in airtight container between sheets of waxed paper for up to 2 weeks. Decorator Icing Prepare one recipe Royal Icing, using packaged meringue powder and following the directions on the package. Dried meringue powder is best for uncooked frostings due to the increased concern about the presence of salmonella bacteria in raw eggs. Meringue powder is available in stores where decorating and baking supplies are sold. Posted to recipelu-digest by LSHW <shusky@erols.com> on Mar 23, 1998

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