be mine cookies
The dough is easier to cut and move when it is cold and well floured.
yield
3 dozen
cook time
1 Hr
method
Bake
Ingredients For be mine cookies
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2 cflour
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2 tspchinese five spice powder
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1 1/2 tspbaking soda
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1/4 tspsalt
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3 Tbspfresh ginger root
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1 csugar
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1/4 cmaple syrup
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12 Tbspbutter flavor shortening
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3egg
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3 cpowered sugar
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1 tsplemon juice
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bright pink food coloring
How To Make be mine cookies
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1Mix flour, spice powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
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2Chop ginger root into small pieces Melt the butter flavored shortning In a blender, mix ginger, sugar, syrup, shortning, and one of the eggs until smooth
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3Mix ginger goo with dry ingredients to form a dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 day
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4Preheat oven to 325 Place parchment paper on your cookie sheet On very well floured surface roll out the dough (do in small batches, keeping the remainder if the refrigerator) Use heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out the cookies
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5Bake cookies at 325 for 8-10 min Let cool
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6To make icing: Mix powered sugar, 2 egg whites, and lemon juice. It should be fairly runny. Divide into separate bowls for different colors Mix in food coloring to desired shade of lovely pink.
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7Dip front of cookies into lighter colored icing Then use toothpick to drip on darker icing and swirl
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