Cookies Around The World 5 Of 5

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemons, rind of
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1/2 cup colored crystal sugar
• 1 (1 ounce) envelope premelted chocolate
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 ounce premelted chocolate
• 4 teaspoons milk
• 1/4 cup colored crystal sugar or 1/4 cup chocolate sprinkles or 1/4 cup finely chopped nuts

Recipe

• 1 basic cookie dough.
• 2 cream butter and sugar.
• 3 beat in egg and vanilla.
• 4 add flour slowly, and mix well.
• 5 divide in two.
• 6 turkish twirls.
• 7 preheat oven to 375.
• 8 add to 1/2 basic cookie dough- lemon peel and ground cardamom.
• 9 mix well.
• 10 shape dough by rounded teaspoons into pencil-like strips, about 6 inches long.
• 11 roll strips in colored sugar.
• 12 coil around into spiral shapes.
• 13 bake on ungreased baking sheet about 10 minutes until set.
• 14 immediately remove from baking sheet.
• 15 mexican swizzle sticks.
• 16 preheat oven to 375.
• 17 mix into 1/2 basic cookie dough- premelted chocolate and cinnamon.
• 18 using star plate cookie press, for 4 inch fingers on ungreased baking sheet.
• 19 bake 5-7 minutes, or until set.
• 20 cool.
• 21 drizzle with chocolate glaze made as follows.
• 22 blend confectioners sugar, premelted chocolate, and milk.
• 23 sprinkle with colored shot, chocolate shot or nuts.
• 24 or, if desired, dip ends in or dust with cinnamon/sugar made by blending 1/4 cup confectioners sugar and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon.