White Star Cookies Food

WHITE STAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Melt the white star candy and peanut butter together.
• Add all other ingredients and mix together.
• Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper.
• Refrigerate until hardened.

RED, WHITE, AND BLUE STARS

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl. Cream butter and granulated sugar, with a mixer on medium speed, until pale and fluffy. Beat in yolks and vanilla until well combined. Add flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with cream and beating well after each addition. Shape dough into 4 disks, wrap each in plastic, and refrigerate for at least 3 hours (or up to 3 days).
• On floured parchment, roll 1 disk of dough into a 1/8-inch-thick rectangle. Repeat with remaining disks. Stack sheets of dough and parchment, and refrigerate for 1 hour or freeze for 30 minutes.
• Spread raspberry jam on 1 sheet of dough, blueberry jam on another. Top each with a plain sheet of dough. Refrigerate for 1 hour or freeze for 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut out cookies using a 2 1/2-inch star-shaped cutter, and space 1 inch apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. Brush with cream, and sprinkle with sanding sugar. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or freeze for 15 minutes.
• Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until golden, 16 to 20 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks, and let cool completely. If desired, bake dough scraps.

WHITE ICED STAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 190c/fan 170c/Gas 5. Beat the butter and sugar together until asoft and pale, creamy colour. Gradually beat in teh egg. Mix the flour, making a smooth dough.
• Lightly dust a work surface with flour and quickly roll out the dough. Press out star shapes, place in a baking sheet and cook for 8-10 mins until golden at the edges. Carefully lift with a palette knife and cool on a wire rack.
• Put the icing sugar in a bowl and add enough hot water to mix the icing sugar to a stiff consistency. Spoon the icing on to the biscuits and smooth out.Leave to harden.

WHITE CHOCOLATE STAR SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat cookie dough and flour until combined. Roll out on a lightly floured surface to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-3/4-in. star cookie cutter. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. , Decorate half of the cookies with sugars and nonpareils. Bake at 350° for 7-9 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool., In a microwave, melt white chocolate; stir until smooth. , Cool. In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and food coloring until fluffy. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar and melted chocolate until smooth. Spread over the tops of plain cookies; top with decorated cookies. Store in the refrigerator.

CHOCOLATE STAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat overn to 375°.
• In a large mixing bowl, beat together Crisco, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, water and vanilla until well mixed.
• Add the flour, baking soda & salt to the mixing bowl and mix well.
• Cover and refrigerate dough for 30 minutes.
• Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Place in preheated oven and bake for 9-11 minutes or until light brown.
• As soon as you remove the cookies from the oven, place a chocolate star on the top of each cookie.

SHINING STAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350°F.
• Put the sugar and butter into a large bowl. Stir them together with a wooden spoon, until the mixture is smooth.
• Break the egg into to a separate bowl. Use a fork to stir the egg hard, until the yolk and the white are mixed together well. Mix the beaten egg into the mixture in the bowl, a little at a time.
• Sift the flour and allspice through a sieve into the bowl. Mix everything together really well, using the wooden spoon.
• Use your hands to squeeze the mixture together to make a dough. Then, squeeze the dough into a large ball.
• Dust a clean work surface and rolling pin with a little flour. Don't use too much flour or the dough will get tough. Roll out the ball of dough until it is about 1/4 inch thick.
• Draw around a cookie sheet on parchment paper. Cut out the shape and put it on the baking sheet. Cut the stars from the dough using the large star cookie cutter. Place the stars on the parchment sheet.
• Make a hole in each star by pressing the drinking straw through the dough, near to the top of one of the points.
• use the small cookie cutter to cut a hole in the middle of each star. The hole should be only slightly bigger than the candy.
• Squeeze the scraps of dough into a ball. Roll out the dough again and cut out the rest of the stars. Place them on the parchment sheet and make holes and circles in them too.
• Put a candy into the middle of each star. It looks better if you use different colored hard candies. Put the cookie sheet on the middle shelf of the oven and bake the stars at 350°F for 12 minutes.
• Take the cookies out of the oven. Leave them on the baking sheets until they have cooled completely. Remove carefully. This is where you can eat them, or make them into ornaments by stringing a ribbon through each hole at the tip of the stars.