Winter birch tree cookies
40 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¾ | cup | Sugar |
| ½ | cup | Butter; softened |
| 1 | tablespoon | Milk |
| 2 | teaspoons | Vanilla |
| 1 | Egg | |
| 2 | cups | Flour |
| 1 | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| 1 | teaspoon | Cinnamon |
| 12 | ounces | Vanilla candy coating or almond bark; melted |
| 2 | ounces | Bittersweet chocolate; melted |
Directions
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Grease cookie sheets. In large bowl, combine sugar and butter; beat until well blended. Add milk, vanilla and egg; beat well. Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off. Add flour, baking powder and cinnamon; mix well. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. On lightly floured surface, roll balls into logs, 6 inches long. Place on greased cookie sheets. Bake at 400 degrees for 5 to 8 minutes or until light golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely. Place melted candy coating in pie pan. Dip logs into candy coating; place on waxed paper to cool. Drizzle melted bittersweet chocolate over logs to resemble birch trees.
Recipe by: The Tennessee Magazine - 12/97 Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest V1 #449 by Pamela Morrisson <pmorrsn@...> on Dec 11, 1997