Fall into favor with guests and family when you serve these melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookies.
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Leaf Cookies
- Prep Time 55 min
- Total 1 hr 35 min
- Servings 48
- Ingredients 11
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Yellow food color
- Red food color
- Green food color

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F. Stir together sugar, butter and shortening in large bowl. Stir in vanilla and eggs. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt.
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Step2Divide dough into 3 equal parts. Stir 8 drops yellow food color into 1 part dough to make yellow dough. Stir 8 drops yellow and 3 drops red food color into another part dough to make orange dough. Stir 10 drops red, 8 drops green and 3 drops yellow food color into remaining dough to make brown dough.
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Step3Drop small portions of each of the 3 colors of dough close together in random pattern onto lightly floured cloth-covered surface. Roll doughs together into marbled pattern to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut with 2 1/2- to 3-inch leaf-shaped cookie cutter. Place about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
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Step4Bake 6 to 7 minutes or until no indentation remains when touched in center. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
Nutrition
80 Calories
4 g Total Fat
1 g Protein
10 g Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 80
- Calories from Fat
- 35
- Total Fat
- 4 g
- Saturated Fat
- 2 g
- Cholesterol
- 15 mg
- Sodium
- 55 mg
- Potassium
- 10 mg
- Total Carbohydrate
- 10 g
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- Protein
- 1 g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 1 Fat;Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens
- tip 1
- tip 2
- tip 3
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