Lollipop Cookies |
Make a cookie bouquet by wrapping these fun-to-eat, minty cookies in clear cellophane and tying the sticks together with a ribbon, or "plant" the cookies in a clay pot filled with colourful jelly beans!
Ingredients
- Basic Sugar Cookie Dough (see recipe) 1/2 recipe (see Note)
- 6 drops of red liquid food colouring
- 18 lollipop sticks (6 inch, 15 cm, length), cut in half
- 2 tbsp (30 mL) meringue powder (see Note)
- 2 small resealable freezer bags 2
Note: Omit vanilla from Basic Sugar Cookie Dough. Use the same amount of mint flavouring.
Directions
1. Divide Basic Sugar Cookie Dough in half. Roll out 1 half between 2 sheets of waxed paper to 6 x 8 inch (15 x 20 cm) rectangle. Set dough aside.
2. Add food colouring to second half of dough in large bowl. Knead in bowl for 1 to 2 minutes until colour is even. Roll out between 2 separate sheets of waxed paper to 6 x 8 inch (15 x 20 cm) rectangle.
3. Discard top sheet of waxed paper from each rolled out dough rectangle. Invert coloured dough onto first rectangle, aligning edges. Press lightly with rolling pin to seal. Discard top sheet of waxed paper. Roll up tightly from long side, jelly roll-style, using waxed paper as guide. Press seam against roll to seal. Wrap with plastic wrap. Chill for at least 6 hours or overnight.
4. Discard plastic wrap. Cut into 1/4 inch (6 mm) slices. Lay 1 slice over 1 lollipop stick on greased cookie sheet, covering about 1 inch (2.5 cm) of stick. Press dough lightly onto stick. Repeat with remaining slices and lollipop sticks, arranging about 1 inch (2.5 cm) apart on greased cookie sheets, alternating direction of sticks.
5. Bake in 350ºF (175ºC) oven for 6 to 8 minutes until golden. Let stand on cookie sheets for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool. Makes 3 dozen (36) cookies.
1 cookie: 54 Calories; 2.9 g Total Fat (1.8 g Mono, 0.3 g Poly, 0.6 g Sat); 6 mg Cholesterol; 6 g Carbohydrate; trace Fibre; 1 g Protein; 51 mg Sodium
Recipe reprinted from Christmas Gifts from the Kitchen © Company's Coming Publishing Limited.
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krystal | November 9, 2011 at 12:49 pm - §
This recipe is incomplete....the ingredients call for meringue powder yet it is never mentioned in the instructions!! Who ever designed this project need to be on probation!!!!! The recipe for the sugar cookie base doesn't even appear until today. FAIL!!! Hard to take the rest of your recipes seriously when there is such disorganization, how good can they be if you made two major mistakes on this one?