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Monster Cookies

Ingredients:

½ cup unsalted butter, softened
½ cup sugar
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
3 tablespoons hot water
green and orange food coloring

For Decorating:

5 licorice all sorts, thinly sliced
20 jelly beans, halved
5 gummy candies, cut into 4 pieces
mini chocolate chips
mixed candies for decorating

To make the cookies, beat the butter, sugar, and egg with an electric mixer until creamy. Add the flour. Using your hands, press the mixture together to form a soft dough. Turn onto a lightly floured work surface and knead for 2 minutes, or until smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Brush a large baking sheet with melted butter or oil. Roll out the dough between sheets of waxed paper to ¼ inch thick. Cut into shapes, using any desired cutters. Put the cookies on the baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes or until golden. Leave to cool. Divide and sift the confectioners’ sugar into bowls. Add the water and food coloring and stir well. Dip the front of each cookie into the frosting. While the frosting is still soft, decorate the cookies with candies.

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1/3 cup unsalted butter

1/3 cup sugar

2 tablespoons whole milk

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup self-rising flour

1/3 cup instant vanilla pudding mix

2 tablespoons peach or apricot jam

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with waxed paper. Using electric beaters, beat the butter and sugar in a small bowl until the mixture is light and creamy. Add the milk and vanilla, and beat until combined. Sift the flour and pudding mix into the butter mixture and mix to form a soft dough. Roll 2 teaspoons of the dough at a time into balls and place on the baking sheets. Press a hollow in each ball with your thumb or the end of a wooden spoon and fill each hole with ¼ teaspoon of jam. Bake the cookies for 15 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Makes about 32.

Tested in the THASC kitchen. Photo by THASC.

THASC is a unique small American business producing cards and other promotional products.