Light Brown Sugar Cookies Recipe
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Light Brown Sugar Cookies
3/4 cup butter, (1 1/2 sticks)
1 egg yolk, (save the white for merin
2/3 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
2 cup King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose
1/2 tsp salt
Garnish
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips melted
chocolate jimmies, colored sugars,
finely chopped nuts or other sugar
decorations
In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter, egg yolk and brown sugar
until well-combined. Mix in the flour and salt gradually. Cover and chill
the dough for at least 1 hour (while you wrap presents or attend your
exercise class).
After the dough has chilled, break off teaspoonfuls of it and form them
into
balls. Place them on lightly greased or parchment-lined baking sheets, and
press gently down onto each ball with the bottom of a juice glass that's
been dipped in granulated sugar.
Bake the cookies in a preheated 375F oven for 10 to 12 minutes, or until
they're lightly browned. Remove them from the oven and cool them on a wire
rack.
When the cookies are cool, glaze half of each with the melted chocolate.
You
can dip each cookie in chocolate to coat both sides of the half, or use a
flat butter knife to cover the top side only of the half (which is much
easier). Then make small piles of whatever garnishes you use -- it's fun
to
mix and match -- and dip the chocolate end into the decorations.
Refrigerate
the cookies in a single layer on a baking sheet until the chocolate sets,
about 1 hour. Yield: about 40 cookies
Just A Hint:
When you're melting chocolate to use as an icing or glaze (as in the
recipe
above), be very careful that alcohol, water or any other water-based
liquid
doesn't get into the chocolate. Even a drop can make the chocolate "seize
up" immediately, i.e., thicken into a dull, clay-like substance that's
impossible to spread or drizzle. If you want to flavor your chocolate,
don't
use an alcohol-based flavor or extract; be sure to use one based on oil.
You've heard that the most important consideration when buying a piece of
real estate is location, location, location, right? A similar slogan for
the
holidays could be, then, decoration, decoration, decoration -- what with
the
trimming of trees, the lighting of candles, the weaving of wreaths and the
frosting of cookies, among oodles of other festive activities.
Now, maybe some of us have the enormous patience required to decorate our
holiday cookies in painstaking detail, but there are probably many more of
us who'd rather just get the job done and then move on to the next
project.
That's where these cookies come in. First of all, the silky smooth
shortbread-like dough they're made from is a joy to work with, and there's
no tedious rolling to tend to. Then, there's the extremely easy way that
this little decorating fact of life can be taken care of (details below).
The end result is a beautiful batch of tender sugar cookies, half-glazed
in
chocolate and gussied up with as little or as much garnish as you see fit
--
and all created without working up a sweat!
Nutrition information per serving (1 chocolate-coated cookie without
decoration, 17g): 81 cal, 4.4g fat, 1g protein, 4g complex carbohydrates,
5g
sugar, 17mg cholesterol, 30mg sodium, 30mg potassium, 35RE vitamin A, 14mg
calcium, 12mg phosphorus, 1mg caffeine.
Per serving: 2187 Calories (kcal); 176g Total Fat; (68% calories from
fat); 7g Protein; 174g Carbohydrate; 373mg Cholesterol; 2522mg Sodium
Food Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 35
Fat; 11 1/2 Other Carbohydrates
Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 2246 Calories; 181g Fat (68.9%
calories from fat); 10g Protein; 174g Carbohydrate; 7g Dietary Fiber;
585mg Cholesterol; 2530mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1/2 Lean Meat; 36 Fat; 11
1/2 Other Carbohydrates.
Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Preparation Time: 0:00
Serves: 1 |
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