Half Moon Cookies

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Title: Half Moon Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 24 servings

1 3/4 c Sugar
1 c Butter; softened
4 lg Eggs
1 c Milk
1/2 ts Vanilla extract
1/4 ts Lemon extract
2 1/2 c Cake flour
2 1/2 c Flour
1 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
4 c Confectioner's sugar
1/3 c Boiling water--to 1/2 cup
1 oz Bittersweet chocolate

Recipe by: Sally Beauchamp
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Butter 2 baking sheets and set
aside.
2. Make the cookies: In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar and
butter and mix by machine or hand until fulffy. Add the eggs, milk, and
vanilla and lemon extract and mix until smooth.
3. In a medium bowl, combine the flours, baking powder, andsalt and
stir until mixed. Add the dry ingredients to the wet in batches, stirring
well to combine. Usine a soup spoon, drop spoonfuls of the dough 2 inches
apart on the prepared baking sheets. Bake until the edges begin to brown.
20 to 30 mintues. Allow to cool completely.
4. Make the frosting: Place the confectioners' sugar in a large bowl,
Gradually add enough of the boiling water to the sugar, stirring
constantly, until mixture is thick and spreadable.
5. Remove half of the frosting to the top half of a double boiler set
over simmering water and add the chocolate. Warm the mixture, stirring,
until the chocolate is melted and the frosting is smooth. Remove from the
heat. with a brush, coat half the flat side of the cookies with chocolate
frosting and the other half with white frosting. These are a puffy
cake-like cookies

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