Impatient Person's "I'm Hungry" Cookies

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Title: 1986 Winner: Impatient Person's "I'm Hungry" Cookies
Categories: Cookies, Holiday
Yield: 36 servings

1 c Unsalted butter, softened
8 oz Cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 c Sugar
1 Egg
1 ts Vanilla
3 c Flour
1 ts Baking powder

Preparation time: 20 minutes Chilling time: Several hours Baking
time: 10 to 15 minutes

1. Cream butter and cream cheese in large mixer bowl. Beat in sugar
until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in flour and baking
powder. Chill several hours.
2. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Roll dough into small balls. Place on
ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten with a glass that has been dipped in
vanilla sugar (sugar in which you have stored a vanilla bean) or plain
sugar.
3. Bake 10 to 15 minutes, until the edges are lightly browned. Cool
on wire racks.
Winner Jeanette McCarthy, Downers Grove, Illinois, describes her
impatient person's "I'm hungry" cookies: "When I was a child, part of
our Christmas celebration involved visits to my father's relatives
during the time between Christmas and Epiphany. Great-Aunt Elizabeth
came from a family whose women had been cooks for a wealthy family in
Hungary. As a result, her cooking was usually slightly different and
somewhat elegant.
"A treasured memory of Christmas at Great-Aunt Elizabeth's house
was a cookie that I never learned to eat in moderation. Although my
mother warned me not to say anything, one of the first things I would
say upon arrival was, 'I'm hungry,' hoping that these cookies would
appear. Much to my delight they usually did, and in fact, began also
to appear at Easter, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and any other
time we got together to celebrate." from the Chicago Tribune annual
Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 4, 1986

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