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Shamrock Cookies

Here's how you make Shamrock Cookies
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  • Servings: 24
  • Prep: 10m
  • Cook: 20m
  • The following recipe serves 24 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

  • Step 2: In the bowl of an electric mixer beat the butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy.

  • Step 3: Stir in vanilla.

  • Step 4: Stir in the flour and salt and blend well.

  • Step 5: On a lightly floured work surface roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick.

  • Step 6: Cut out cookies with a 3 inch shamrock cookie cutter and place them 2 inches apart on uncreased cookie sheets. Reroll scrapes and cut out more cookies.

  • Step 7: Sprinkle green sugar crystals on each cookie.

  • Step 8: Bake for 20-25 minutes or until cookies are pale golden and not brown (YOU NEED TO WATCH THESE CAREFULLY AS THEY BROWN FAST)

  • Step 9: Let stand for 2 minutes before removing them to a rack to cool completely.


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