Jack-o'-Lantern Cookies

Name: Jack-o'-Lantern Cookies
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 48
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 591 milliliters packed brown sugar; 158 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 237 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 2 eggs; 946 milliliters Gold all-purpose flour; 48 servings Green, yellow and red food colors; 48 servings Assorted candies, nuts and miniature semisweet chocolate chips, if desired; 79 milliliters frozen (thawed) orange juice concentrate; 1 liters powdered sugar; 4 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice; 1 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters shortening

Jack-o'-Lantern Cookies requires around 1 hour and 30 minutes from start to finish. This dessert has 372 calories, 3g of protein, and 16g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 48. If you have food colors, shortening, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. com.

Instructions

Heat oven to 375F. In large bowl, mix brown sugar, 1 cup butter, the shortening and eggs until well blended. Stir in flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder and salt.

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Pumpkin Pie Spice

Baking Powder

Brown Sugar

Shortening

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Egg

Salt

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Oven

On lightly floured surface, roll 1/4 of dough at a time to 1/4-inch thickness. (Keep remaining dough refrigerated until ready to roll.)

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Dough

Roll

Cut with 3-inch pumpkin-shaped or round cookie cutter.

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Pumpkin

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Cookie Cutter

Place on ungreased cookie sheets.

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Baking Sheet

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light brown.

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Oven

Remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.

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Baking Sheet

In large bowl, mix powdered sugar and 2/3 cup butter until smooth. Stir in juice concentrate.

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Powdered Sugar

Butter

Juice

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Bowl

Place 1/3 cup frosting in small bowl; add green food color until desired color for stems. To remaining frosting, add 2 drops yellow food color for every 1 drop red food color for desired shade of orange. Generously frost cookies with orange frosting. Frost stems with green frosting. Make jack-o'-lantern faces with candies.

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Red Food Color