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treat, cover the tops with icing.
Carrot Cookies
1 cup shortening (part soft butter)
•y* cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed cooked carrots
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Vt teaspoon salt
y< cup shredded coconut
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix shortening, sugar, eggs, and carrots. Blend in flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in coconut. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto lightly greased baking sheet.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until no imprint remains when lightly touched. Immediately remove from baking sheet. Cool and if desired, frost with orange butter icing. (Yields 4 dozen cookies.)
Orange Butter Icing
3 tablespoons soft butter or margarine
2'/z cups confectioners sugar
2 teaspoons grated orange peel
1 tablespoon orange juice
Blend butter and sugar. Stir in orange peel and juice. Beat until frosting is smooth and of spreading consistency.
One of my family’s favorites are Raspberry Meringue Bars. The recipe Comes from the American Cancer Society’s VIP Holiday Cookbook, truly a treasure trove of Christmas goodies. (For the raspberry jam, I substitute homemade wineberry jam.)
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