Cookie Recipes
Clothespin Cookies
You will need the old-fashioned one-piece wooden clothespins to make this recipe.
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 pound shortening, divided
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 1/4 cups water
Filling
- 1 cup milk
- 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 pound butter
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 6 tablespoons Marshmallow Creme
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Cookies
- Beat together egg yolks and water. Cut 1/4 cup shortening into flour and sugar and add the egg yolks and water and mix as for pastry.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Heat oven to 425 degrees F.
- When it is time to roll out and bake, work with 1/4 of the dough at a time.
- Roll dough out and spread with 1/4 of the shortening. Do this three more times.
- Cut into about 8 inch strips and wind loosely around clothes pins.
- Bake for 5 minutes, then reduce heat to 375 degrees F for 10 minutes.
- Let cool for only about 2 minutes and work gently off pin as cookies are crisp and easy to break.
Filling
- Cook until thick the milk and flour. Let cool.
- Cream together butter, confectioners' sugar, Marshmallow Creme and vanilla extract.
- Add milk mixture to creamed mixture. This recipe will fill over 100 cookies. The filling can be tinted any color you desire. Use a pastry tube to fill cookies.