Kristine Cayne's Cookie [Recipe] Exhange: Double Layer Jelly Cookies
It's time for the fifth recipe in the Kristine Cayne Cookie Recipe Exhange. Today's recipe is a classic jelly cookie that I'm sure will be a treat for everyone who comes to your house this holiday season and is treat worthy
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Double Layer Jelly Cookies
3 1/2 cups of flour, sifted
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup of vegetable shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
2 tablespoons cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Icing sugar
Mix shortening and sugar until creamy.
Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
Add flour mixture to shortening mixture.
Beat until fluffy.
Add eggs, cream, and vanilla. Mix well. Then add remaining dry ingredients. Mix well.
Form dough into a ball, wrap in wax paper and refrigerate for about 3 hours.
Sprinkle counter or cutting board with icing sugar. Cut dough into two and roll out each half until 1/4" thick.
Using cookie cutter (or top of a glass), cut out one half of dough and place on cookie sheet (use non-stick or use parchment paper).
Cook 8 minutes at 375F until lightly browned. Do the same with other half of dough.
Let cool a little before assembling into two layers with some of your favorite jelly in between. Wait 1/2 hour before serving.
Previous Recipes
Sugar Cookies
Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
Caden's Candy Cookies
Chocolate-Hazelnut Thumbprints
Holiday Decorations
So, have you put up your Christmas Tree or outdoor decorations yet? I have not. Well, the tree is standing in the corner of the living room but it's naked! As soon as we get it done (hopefully before December 24!) I'll post pictures.
In the meantime, here a Christmas Slideshow you might enjoy. It's one of those wonderful arrangements that gets sound out on mailing lists each year - author is unknown.
Writing Progress
Some readers have been asking about my progress. Things are going really well. I'm more than 50% done on my December goal of 35K words. But more importantly, the draft of my Obsession manuscript is now at 93500 words (309 pages using Times New Roman 12pt font). This is a first draft so there will definitely be a lot of editing and revising to be done before I can start sending it out to my beta readers but I'm still planning to do that by early March.
By the way, to get (almost) daily updates, check out my website www.kristinecayne.com. On the home page, there is a Facebook badge containing my status updates. I try to post word count daily so it's easier for all of you to follow along in this wonderful journey of mine.
Writing Inspiration
What inspires you? Last year I attended a workshop where the speaker talked about how she would buy herself a bottle of champagne and write her goal on it. The bottle would only be opened when the goal was reached. That day, I was lucky enough to win one of the bottles of champagne that she was giving out - a small bottle of Cook's. Immediately upon arriving home, I wrote my goal on it - Finish the draft of my novel. That bottle has been sitting on the shelf of my dining room buffet where I see each each time I sit to have a meal. I'm not much of a drinker but I love champagne. And you know what? I'm expecting to be able to enjoy that bottle on December 31, 2009!!!
And my next inspiration - a large bottle of Dom Perignon Champagne. My husband purchased this for me last weekend. The goal - finish my Obsession manuscript. What does finish mean? It means that I've finished editing, revising and have sent it out to Beta readers. It needs to be at the point where I feel it is ready to be sent out to potential agents. I'm hoping to be able to enjoy this bottle of fine champagne in the wonderful flutes that came with it by spring. I'm setting April 30, 2010 as my goal.
Thank you all so much for your support! And please, keep sending me your comments, recipes and photos. I love to hear from you.
Happy Writing,
Kristine
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Posted by Kristine Cayne at 12/15/2009 10:06 AM 
Categories: recipes, cookies, holidays
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Categories: recipes, cookies, holidays
Tags: writing recipes cookies author
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Kristine
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