Here’s a festive cookie recipe that kids will love to decorate!
- 1 c. shortening
- 3/4 c. firmly packed brown sugar
- 3/4 c. granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 unbeaten eggs
- 1/2 chopped walnuts (optional)
- 1 1/4 c. flour
- 1 tsp. soda
- 3 c. rolled oats
- Candy corn (optional)
Combine shortening, sugars, vanilla, salt, cinnamon, and eggs. Beat thoroughly. Stir in walnuts. Sift together flour and soda. Add to shortening mixture and blend. Stir in oats. Place dough by tablespoonfuls on greased cookie sheets, leaving a little space between them. Press with a fork. Press candy corn into the cookies (we sometimes do it in the shape of a smiley face). Bake in 350 oven for 12-14 minutes. Cool about 2 minutes before removing them from the sheet.
YIELD 5 1/2 dozen
VARIATION:
For lollipop cookies, prepare dough as directed above. Just before baking, insert a lollipop stick, paper drinking straw, or wooden skewer into each mound of dough with sticks parallel to the cookie sheet to make it look like a lollipop. Decorate with facial features using candy corn, m&m’s, gumdrops, raisins etc. Bake as directed
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