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BETHY'S PINK COOKIES

Ingredients

  • 3 cups flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • Mix these dry ingredients together in a bowl.
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 cup orange juice
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon lemon extract

FROSTING

  • 3 cups confectioner's sugar
  • 1 teaspoons vanilla or lemon extract
  • Pink food coloring
  • approximately 1/4 cup water

Instructions

  1. With an electric mixer, mix these wet ingredients together in a separate bowl.  Add 1/3 of the dry ingredients and mix until blended.  Continue adding the dry ingredients, 1/3 at a time, until mixture is well-blended.  The batter will be soft and sticky.  Drop by heaping teaspoonful onto a parchment-lined cookie cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees until bottom of cookie is lightly browned and cookie is set.  Dip tops of cooled cookies into pink frosting.  Sprinkle with jimmies and let dry.

FROSTING

  1. Mix with electric mixer or by hand.  Beat until smooth.  (The consistency should be thicker, rather than thinner.)

Recipe Notes

Important note:  Avoid the temptation to tint the icing a different color.  These cookies were meant to be pink.  Pretty pink.  Any other color = big mistake.  That's why they're called Bethie's PINK Cookies.