Cherry Bell Cookies
Cherry Bell Cookies requires roughly 45 minutes from start to finish. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 63 calories, 1g of protein, and 2g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 60. If you have instant coffee granules, brown sugar, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.
Instructions
Sift together: 3 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon ginger and 1/2 teaspoon instant coffee. Put aside.
Cream 1 cup butter or margarine.
Add 1 1/4 cups brown sugar. Cream well. Blend in dark corn syrup, egg, and cream.
Add dry ingredients and mix well.
Roll out dough, 1/3 at a time on floured board to 1/8 inch thickness.
Cut cookies into 2 1/2 inch rounds.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Combine 1/3 firmly packed brown sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 3 tablespoons cherry juice. Stir in 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts, chopped fine.
Place 1/2 teaspoon filling in center of each round. Shape into a bell by folding sides of dough to meet over the filling using spatula to fold over sides. Make top of bell narrower than at the clapper end.
Place 1/2 of a maraschino cherry (cut side down) at open end of each bell for clapper.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 12-15 minutes.