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Feb 14, 2010 at 1:18 PM
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This is from the Pillsbury "The Complete Book of Baking". I made some alterations to the recipe that I will add at the end.

Ingredients

1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup margarine or butter (softened), 1 tbs milk, 1 tsp vanilla, 1 egg, 1-1/4 cups all purpose flour, 1 tsp cream of tartar, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt, sugar for decorating

Filling

2 tbs margarine or butter, 1-1/3 cups powdered sugar, 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa, 4 tsp hot water, 2 to 3 tbs coffe-flavored liqueur

In large bowl, beat sugar and 1/2 cup margarine until light and fluffy. Add milk, vanilla and egg; blend well. Stir in flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt; mix well. Cover with plastic wrap; refigerate 3 hours or until firm.

Heat oven to 425 degree F. Using a cloth-covered rolling pin and well-floured pastry cloth, roll out 1/3 of dough at a time to 1/8-inch thickness. Keep remaining dough refrigerated. Cut with floured 1-1/2 inch round cookie cutter. Sprinkle tops with sugar. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.

Bake at 425 degrees F. for 3 to 5 minutes or until edges are light brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheets; cool completely.

In small bowl, combine all filling ingredients, adding enough liqueur for desired frosting consistency. Spread rounded 1/2 teaspoon filling between 2 cooled cookies.

Yield: 5 dozen sandwich cookies

Donna's alterations: I added another 1/4 of flour to the dough because it was really, really wet. Even with the extra flour, the dough was still incredibly sticky and difficult to work with unless very cold and with flour flying generously every where. I used a heart-shaped cutter (obviously) that was larger than what they called for and got 2 dozen cookies, but the ratio of cookie to filling still worked very well. For the filling - I didn't have the coffee liqueur and water in frosting seems unsatisfying, so I used milk as the sole liquid. I added the liquid the recipe called for and found that was more fluid than I would have liked, so I added more powdered sugar to "stiffen" it up (no idea how much that was - call it three dumps).

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