Kris Kringle Cookies

• Kris Kringle COOKIES
• 1 cup margarine
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 3 cups plain flour
• White icing, red frosting or gel
• coconut
• red hots
• mini chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Cream margarine and sugar in large bowl in electric mixer
3. Beat in egg and vanilla; add baking powder. Add flour one cup at a time - blend last cup of flour by hand. Do not chill dough. Divide dough into two balls.(Do not need to chill)
4. Roll dough to 1/4 in thickness and cut with a heart shaped cookie cutter.
5. Bake on middle shelf of oven for 10 minutes or till lightly brown. Let stand 1-2 minutes.
6. Remove from cookie sheet. Cool on wire racks.
7. Turn heart upside down and frost the two rounded parts with white icing. Then top with coconut to create Santa's beard and sideburns. Use a red hot for the nose and mini chocolate chips for the eyes. Frost the point of the heart with red icing for the top of Santa's hat. Add coconut for the trim

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/kris-kringle-cookies-1231321 (may not work)