Caramel Apple Cookies
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine — softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Red paste food color, if desired
About 24 wooden sticks with rounded ends
Caramel Glaze — (recipe follows)
CARAMEL GLAZE
1 (14 ounce) package vanilla caramels
1/4 cup water
Heat oven to 400ş. Beat sugar, butter and shortening in large bowl with
electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in vanilla and
eggs. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt. Stir in food color to tint
dough red.
Roll dough 1/4 inch thick on lightly floured cloth-covered surface. Cut
with 3-inch round or apple-shaped cookie cutter. Place 2 inches apart on
ungreased cookie sheet. Insert wooden stick into side of each cookie. Bake
8 to 9 minutes or until edges are light brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from
cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. Spread top third of each
cookie (opposite wooden stick) with Caramel Glaze. Hold cookie upright to
allow glaze to drizzle down cookie.
CARAMEL GLAZE:
Heat caramels and water in 2-quart saucepan over low heat, stirring
frequently, until melted and smooth. If glaze becomes too stiff, heat over
low heat, stirring constantly, until softened.
Yield:
“24 Cookies”
Per serving: 237 Calories (kcal); 10g Total Fat; (38% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 34g Carbohydrate; 17mg Cholesterol; 167mg Sodium
Food Exchanges: 1 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 2 Fat; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrates
NOTES : Make It Your Way
Here’s another fall idea, try making Leaf Cookies. Make the dough
as directed above—except omit red food color paste and Caramel
Glaze. Divide dough into 3 equal parts. Stir 8 drops yellow food
color into 1 part dough to make yellow dough. Stir 8 drops yellow
and 3 drops red food color into another part dough to make orange
dough. Stir 10 drops red, 8 drops green and 3 drops yellow food
color into remaining dough to make brown dough.
Drop small portions of each of the 3 colors of dough close
together in random pattern onto lightly floured cloth-covered
surface. Roll doughs together into marbled pattern to 1/8-inch
thickness. Cut with 2 1/2- to 3-inch leaf-shaped cookie cutter.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 6 to 7 minutes or until no
indentation remains when touched in center. Remove from cookie
sheet; cool on wire rack. About 4 dozen cookies.
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