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.
Yummy! Thanks for the recipe!!!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy, Angela! Happy Halloween!
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