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Coconut Ice

Coconut Ice

  • 2 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 1 egg white, lightly beaten
  • 3 tablespoons unsweetened condensed milk
  • 1 ¾ cups shredded dried coconut
  • orange food coloring

Brush 13 ¾ inch loaf pan with melted butter or oil. Line with waxed paper and grease the paper. Sift the confectioners’ sugar and cream of tartar into a bowl. Make a well in the center. Add the combined egg white and condensed milk. Stir in the coconut. Mix until well combined. Divide the mixture between two bowls. Tint the contents of one bowl with orange coloring. Knead the color through evenly. Press the orange mixture into the bottom of the loaf pan. Cover with the white mixture and press down gently. Refrigerate for 1 hour, or until set. When firm, remove from the pan and cut into squares. Makes 30 pieces.

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Peanut Butter Alien Cookies

Peanut Butter Alien Cookies

 Ingredients:

  • 1 package (about 16 ounces) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup powdered sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • Green decorating icing
  • 1 cup strawberry jam

 Method:

Let dough stand at room temperature 15 minutes. Grease 2 cookie sheets.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine dough, peanut butter, flour, powdered sugar and vanilla in large bowl; beat with electric mixer at medium speed until well blended. Reserve half of dough; wrap and refrigerate.

Roll out remaining dough between parchment paper to ¼ inch thickness. Cut out 14 circles with 3 inch round cookie cutter; pinch 1 side of each circle to make teardrop shape. Place 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheets. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until set. Cool on cookie sheets 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.

Roll out reserved dough between parchment paper to ¼ inch thickness. Cut out 14 circles with 3 inch round cookie cutter; pinch 1 side to each circle to form teardrop shape. Place 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheets. Cut out 2 oblong holes for eyes. Make small slit for mouth. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until set. Cool on cookie sheets 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.

Spread icing on cookies with faces; let stand 10 minutes or until set. Spread jam on uncut cookies. Top each jam topped cookie with green face cookie.

 Makes 14 sandwich cookies

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

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Rainbow Layer Cake

Rainbow Layer Cake

Ingredients:

  • Parchment paper
  • 2 packages white cake mix
  • Water, vegetable oil and egg whites called for on cake mix boxes
  • Violet food coloring gel
  • Royal blue food coloring gel
  • Kelly green food coloring gel
  • Yellow food coloring gel
  • Orange food coloring gel
  • Red Food coloring gel
  • 3 (16 oz.) cans ready-to-spread vanilla frosting, divided
  • 2 ¾ cups powdered sugar, divided

Method:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 6 (8 inch) round cake pans; line with parchment paper. Prepare double batch cake mix according to package directions, using water, oil and egg whites. Divide batter evenly between 6 bowls. Stir 1/8 tsp. each of violet, blue, green and yellow coloring into 4 of the batters. Stir ½ to 1 tsp. orange into the fifth bowl, and ¾ to 1 tsp. red coloring into the sixth bowl. Pour batters into prepared pans.

Bake cake layers at 350 degrees F for 13 to 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove cakes from pans to wire racks, and cool completely (about 1 hour).

Beat 2 cans frosting with 1 cup powdered sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until light and fluffy (2 to 3 minutes). Stack cake layers with 1/3 cup frosting in between each layer. With 1 ¼ cups frosting spread a thin layer of frosting on top and sides of cake.

Add remaining can of frosting and remaining 1 ¾ cups powdered sugar to remaining frosting in bowl. Beat at medium speed with electric mixer until light and fluffy (2 to 3 minutes). Divide frosting into 3 bowls. Tint 2 bowls different shades of light blue. Frost cake with deepest blue toward the bottom and white frosting on top. Use back of spoon to blend and swirl frosting.

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

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