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fancy cocoa flounce cookies
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A modernized version of:
Fancy Cocoa Flounce Cookies
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
2/3 cup bakin' cocoa
1 teaspoon bakin' soda
1/2 cup hot water
2/3 cup milk
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup Crisco
1 large egg
1/4 butter, softened
1/2 cup Crisco
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups confectioners' sugar
3 tablespoons milk
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 350�.
2) Combine flour and cocoa in a mixin' bowl, then set aside.
3) In a separate bowl, dissolve bakin' soda in hot water,
add milk, then set aside.
4) In a third bowl, cream 1 cup granulated sugar and 1/2 cup Crisco
'til light and fluffy.
5) Thoroughly beat in the egg.
6) Thoroughly mix in one half of the flour mixture followed by
one half of the egg mixture. Repeat.
7) Drop dough by heapin' teaspoons full onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for approximately eight minutes.
8) While the cookies cool, prepare frostin' by creamin' together the
1/4 cup butter, 1/2 cup Crisco, vanilla, and confectioners' sugar.
Beat 'til fluffy.
9) Gradually add 3 tablespoons milk [a little more if necessary]
'til the frostin' is creamy.
10) Put the frostin' in a Ziploc bag and cut off one tiny corner of the bag.
11) Squirt frostin' on top of one cookie and top with a second cookie. You know ... like puttin' together Oreos.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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