Cookie Recipes
Tutti-Frutti Cookies
Yield: about 56 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups sweetened flaked coconut, toasted until golden and cooled
- 1 cup packed (about 7 ounces) dried apricots, quartered
- 1 cup dried cranberries (about 5 ounces)
Instructions
- In a bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In another bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add flour mixture, sour cream, and egg and beat until a dough forms. Stir in coconut, apricots and cranberries.
- Halve dough and on a sheet of wax paper form each half into a 10 inch log, using paper as a guide.
- Chill logs, wrapped in wax paper, 4 hours, or until firm. (After the dough has been formed into a log it can be kept in the refrigerator for one week or the freezer for one month. Thaw the frozen dough in the refrigerator until sliceable, about four hours.)
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F and lightly butter 3 cookie sheets.
- Cut logs into 1/3 inch thick rounds with a serrated knife and arrange about 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
- Bake cookies in batches in middle of oven until pale golden, about 12 minutes, and transfer to racks to cool.
- The baked cookies keep in airtight containers at room temperature for four days.
Attribution
Posted by Chyrel at Recipe Goldmine 9/18/2001 1:27 pm.