Hot Shades Cookies

• 3 cups flour, all-purpose
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup butter softened
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
• 1 1/2 cups sugar granulated
• 1 each eggs
• 1 teaspoon lemon extract
• 4 each lifesavers

1. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
2. In a large mixer bowl, beat butter and shortening together.
3. Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy; beat in egg and extract.
4. With mixer at low speed, gradually blend in flour mixture just until well-mixed.
5. Turn dough out onto a sheet of plastic wrap, cover with another sheet, flatten into a disc and chill until firm, 15 to 30 minutes.
6. While the dough is chilling, give each child a few 3-by-5-inch index cards.
7. Cut each card to resemble a pair of sunglasses (just the frames, not the temples); set patterns aside.
8. Divide Life Savers by colors.
9. Place each color in a freezer-weight zipper-sealed plastic bag and crack coarsely with a tin can or meat mallet.
10. Preheat oven to 350F (180C).
11. Place about half the dough on a surface lightly sprinkled with flour.
12. Sprinkle dough lightly with additional flour and roll to about 1/4 inch thick.
13. Lay sunglasses patterns on dough and cut around.
14. Cut holes for inchlenses inch out of each cookie, leaving inchframe inch at least 1/2-inch wide all around.
15. Lift cookies onto a lightly greased, foil -lined baking sheet.
16. Spoon crushed candy into lens holes, filling level with top of cookie.
17. Bake 7 to 9 minutes; let cool completely on sheets.

flour, baking powder, salt, butter, vegetable shortening, sugar, eggs, lemon, lifesavers

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/hot-shades-cookies-34838 (may not work)