#COOKING WITH CLORIS--PUMPKIN SHORTBREAD COOKIES

Tomorrow is Halloween. Why not whip up a batch of Pumpkin Shortbread Cookies?

Tomorrow is also the last day that the ebook version of A Stitch to Die For will be available on Amazon for .99 cents. So grab your copy now before the price returns to $4.99.

Pumpkin Shortbread Cookies

Yield: approximately 3 dozen

Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour + extra for rolling/cutting dough

3/4 cup sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

1-1/2 cups cold butter, cubed

2 tablespoons cold water

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon pumpkin extract

pumpkin cookie cutter

Icing:

2 cups confectioners sugar

2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons milk

Orange food coloring

Chocolate and green icing tubes with fine tips

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in water and extracts until mixture forms a ball.

Lightly flour surface for rolling. Roll dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut out pumpkins with floured cookie cutters. Place 1-in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. 

Bake at 325° for 15-18 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool 2 minutes, then remove to wire racks. Cool completely before icing.

To make icing, whisk together confectioners sugar and milk in large bowl. Tint with orange food coloring. Gently spread over cookies.

When icing is dry, use tubes of chocolate and green icing with fine tip to decorate as shown.

A Stitch to Die For

An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 5

Ever since her husband died and left her in debt equal to the gross national product of Uzbekistan, magazine crafts editor and reluctant amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack has stumbled across one dead body after another—but always in work-related settings. When a killer targets the elderly nasty neighbor who lives across the street from her, murder strikes too close to home. Couple that with a series of unsettling events days before Halloween, and Anastasia begins to wonder if someone is sending her a deadly message.

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