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Leaf Cookies

Updated Mar 24, 2008
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Fall into favor with guests and family when you serve these melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookies.

Leaf Cookies

  • Prep Time 55 min
  • Total 1 hr 35 min
  • Servings 48
  • Ingredients 11
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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

  • Step 
    1
    Heat 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.
  • Step 
    2
    Divide 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.
  • Step 
    3
    Drop 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.
  • Step 
    4
    Bake 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

Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens

  • tip 1
    Dip edges of baked and cooled cookies in melted milk, semisweet or dark chocolate for a decorative and tasty finish.
  • tip 2
    Place the dough between flat wooden or plastic rulers or between 1/8-inch-thick wooden dowels from a craft or home store. Roll the rolling pin over the rulers or rods to make the dough an even thickness.
  • tip 3
    It's easy to make leaf-shaped cutout cookies look like the real thing. To make the veins, just use a table knife to score the cookie dough before baking--that's all there is to it! During baking, the cookies puff slightly and the veins show up nicely when they're done...
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