Galaxy Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softened
• 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• food coloring
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• dates (anything you want to put in the middle, coconut, nuts, colored sugar, candies, chocolate pieces)
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 1/2 tablespoons light cream or 1 1/2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 preheat over to 350°f.
• 2 mix thoroughly butter, sugar, vanilla, and, if desired, a few drops of food coloring.
• 3 work in salt and flour until dough holds together.
• 4 if dough is dry, mix in 1 to 2 tbsp light cream.
• 5 mold dough by tablespoonfuls around date, nut, candy, cherry, or a few chocolate pieces.
• 6 roll into balls.
• 7 place cookies about 1-inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• 8 bake 12-15 minutes until set but not brown.
• 9 prepare icing by mixing confectioners sugar with light cream or milk and vanilla until smooth.
• 10 if desired, stir in a few drops of food coloring.
• 11 for a tasty chocolate icing, increase light cream to 3 tbsp and stir in 1 oz melted unsweetened chocolate.
• 12 let cookies cool, then dip tops of cookies into icing several times to get a good layer.
• 13 if desired, immediately decorate with coconut, nuts, colored sugar, candies, chocolate pieces or chocolate shot.
• 14 makes 20 to 25 cookies.
• 15 variations: brown sugar galaxy cookies: substitute 1/2 c brown sugar (packed) for the confectioners' sugar and omit food color.
• 16 chocolate galaxy cookies: omit food color and stir in 1 oz melted unsweetened chocolate (cooled) into butter mixture.