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GIANT SPICE COOKIES Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1½ cups butter
2 cups brown sugar
1 egg
4 cups sifted flour
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
½ tsp. ground cloves
¼ tsp. baking soda
Directions:
Directions:
1. Cream butter and sugar thoroughly. Add egg and beat till light and fluffy.

2. Sift together remaining ingredients, stir into creamed mixture. Mix well.

3. Chill dough till firm, about 2 hours.

4. Cut these large cookies into desired shapes such as wreaths, stockings, trees and bells, using hand drawn paper stencils for patterns.

5. Bake one at a time in 350º
oven for about 12 minutes.

FROSTING:
4 cups confectioners’ sugar.
¼ cup butter
¼ tsp. salt
2 egg whites (unbeaten)
½ tsp. almond extract
¼ tsp. cream of tartar
1 to 2 tsp. milk

Cut butter into sugar with pastry blender or 2 knives. Add salt, egg whites, flavoring and cream of tartar. Beat until smooth, then stir in 1 to 2 tsp. milk until it’s a little stiffer than spreading consistency. Divide and color as desired.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Mrs. Burruss and Ann were our Wappinger Falls neighbors and made these large cookies, shaped into bells, wreaths, stockings and trees. They were hand shaped.

 

 

 

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