SERENA’S SUGAR PIE COOKIES

SERENA’S SUGAR PIE COOKIES

start out by following the “old fashioned sugar cookie” recipe exactly

2 cups sugar

1 cup shortening

3 eggs

3 tbsp water or milk

3 level tbsp baking powder

1 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp cloves

3 cups flour

Cream fat and sugar

beat in whipped eggs and add baking powder and 1 cup of flour.

Then add in water and spices. Add remaining flour gradually  working in more flour until dough is stiff enough to roll.

Sprinkle flour over pastry board

Make a ball of dough and lay it on the board. Rub rolling pin with flour and roll out dough to 1/8 thickness.

I took a WHOOPIE PIE PAN sprayed with bakers joy and pushed dough into each cavity almost to top edge.

add colored sugar to each top. then add granulated white sugar over that

put into oven at 400 with timer set to ten minutes..

when only four minutes is left I open door and carefully reach in adding a dark hershey kiss to each center

then grab some coconut and put on each center

now take white chocolate morsels and add about 3 to each center you may have to tap them down some … (by now your time should almost be up)

shut oven door and cook one extra minute

take out let set IN cookie sheet a few minutes..

then take a spoon in right hand and use left hand to help stable it and transfer to cooling rack.. if middle seems unstable wait to transfer that one.

.. once transfered let them sit and cool..