Winter Birch Tree Cookies
- 3/4 c Sugar
- 1/2 c Butter; softened
- 1 tb Milk
- 2 ts Vanilla
- 1 Egg
- 2 c Flour
- 1 ts Baking powder
- 1 ts Cinnamon
- 12 oz Vanilla candy coating or
- -almond bark; melted
- 2 oz Bittersweet chocolate;
- -melted
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
on Dec 11, 1997
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
