Cereal-Date Wreaths
Recipe: #28511
October 28, 2017
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Shaped, Dates, Christmas, Oven Bake Vegetarian, Refrigerated Dough, more
"Practice in shaping these results in a more attractive-looking cookie."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (20.4 g)
- Calories 83.4
- Total Fat - 4.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.5 g
- Cholesterol - 18.8 mg
- Sodium - 27.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 10.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.6 g
- Sugars - 4.3 g
- Protein - 1.2 g
- Calcium - 5.8 mg
- Iron - 0.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In large bowl cream the butter, sugar, vanilla and salt until fluffy.
Step 2
Add egg and beat well. Stir in orange peel and dates.
Step 3
Gradually stir in flour until blended.
Step 4
Wrap dough airtight by covering bowl with wax paper held in place by a rubber band and chill 1 hour or more, even overnight.
Step 5
Pinch off walnut-size pieces of dough. Roll each piece to a 4-1/2"-long rope, then roll it in cereal.
Step 6
Shape these rolls into wreaths, pinching the ends together.
Step 7
Put on lightly greased cookie sheet, 1 inch apart.
Step 8
Bake in preheated 350' oven 12-14 minutes or until light brown.
Step 9
Remove to a rack to cool.
Tips
- Rolling pin and waxed paper to crush the corn flakes