Cookie Pops Recipe

Cookie Pops Recipe Ingredients:

2/3 cup solid vegetable shortening
2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
(HINT: use butter, they sure taste better even if there are a few more calories. Geeze! You're eating a cookie, not a piece of celery. Forget the diet for once!)
3/4 cup EACH granulated sugar and firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
3 - 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
4 tsp. pumpkin pie spice or 1 tsp. each cinnamon, ground allspice, and nutmeg
Confectioner's icing directions and recipe follows.
Assorted candy decorations.

Cookie Pops Recipe Directions

In a large bowl and electric mixer, beat shortening, butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until creamy; beat in eggs and vanilla. In another bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice; gradually add to butter mixture, blending thoroughly. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours.

While you are waiting, cut cookie patterns from lightweight cardboard, choosing simple holiday shapes and making them 5 to 6 inches wide at the widest point. Also have ready 4 -1/2 to 5 -1/2 inch popsicle sticks or tongue depressors.

Using a floured rolling pin, roll out dough, a portion at a time, on a floured board to a thickness of about 1/2 inch. Keep remaining dough refrigerated until ready to roll. Place holiday pattern on dough and cut around edges with a knife. Remove patterns; use a wide spatula to transfer cookies carefully to ungreased baking sheets, spacing them about 2 inches apart. Insert popsicle sticks 1 -1/2 to 2 inches into the base of each.

Bake cookie pops in a 380 degrees oven for 12 to 16 minutes or until very lightly browned. Transfer to racks and let cool completely. Prepare confectioner's icing and spread on cooled cookies; decorate with candies as desired. Let icing dry thoroughly, then wrap cookies individually in plastic wrap. Store in a single layer on a flat surface.

Makes about 1 dozen big cookie pop cookies.

Confectioner's Icing Directions

In a bowl, stir together 2 cups sifted powdered sugar and enough milk (about 3 tablespoons) to make a spreadable icing.
Tint with food color as desired.

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