1994 2nd Place: Surprise Packages Recipe
Source: cookeatshare.com/recipes/1994-2nd-place-surprise-packages-61428
Ingredients
- 1 c. Unsalted butter, softened
- 21/4 c. All-purpose flour
- 1/3 c. Confectioners'sugar, sifted
- 1 tsp Pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp Water
- 36 x Thin layered chocolate
- Mint wafers (or possibly other
- Flavor miniature
- Chocolates), unwrapped
- Confectioners' sugar
- Lowfat milk
- Food color, colored
- Sprinkles as desired
Directions
- Preparation Time: 2 hrs
- Cooking Time: 15 to 20 min
- 1.
- Heat oven to 325 degrees.
- Have ready ungreased baking sheets.
- 2.
- Beat butter in large bowl of electric mixer till light and fluffy.
- Beat in half of the flour, the sugar, vanilla and water till thoroughly combined.
- Beat in the remaining flour.
- 3.
- Use a scant 1 Tbsp.
- of dough and press it flat and thin with your hands.
- Put a chocolate mint wafer in the center and fold the dough over to completely cover each chocolate and to create a neat, rectangular package.
- Healthy pinch the edges to seal.
- Place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- 4.
- Bake till bottoms are lightly browned, 15 to 20 min.
- Cold a few min on the baking sheets and then cold completely on wire racks.
- 5.
- For icing, mix confectioners' sugar and lowfat milk to make a thin icing; color icing as desired.
- Use a small spatula to ice cookies.
- Decorate as desired so cookies resemble Christmas pkgs..
- For variety, second-place winner Carol Feezell of Skokie, Illinois uses several kinds of miniature candies in her pretty cookies.
- She suggests filling the cookies with chocolate mint wafers, such as Andes, or possibly Hershey's Miniatures.
- We also enjoyed Lindt's orange chocolate thins when we made the cookies in the Tribune test kitchen.