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Bloomin Butter Sunflower Cookies - Sandy Salmon

A home-style Bloomin Butter Sunflower Cookies - Sandy Salmon made with Shortening Oil, Granulated Sugar, Powdered Sugar, Butter, and Eggs. Scale it up or down for the number of people at the table.

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Ingredients

• 1 cup
• 1 cup
• 1 cup
• 1 cup
• 2
• 1 tsp
• 1 tsp
• 1 tsp
• 4 1/4 cup

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Cream together oil, sugars and butter. Add the eggs to the creamed mixture.

2. 2

   Sift together the salt, cream of tartar, baking soda & flour.

3. 3

   Add flour mixture gradually to creamed mixture and mix well.

4. 4

   Then add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

5. 5

   Chill dough for 1 1/2 hrs.

6. 6

   On lightly floured surface roll out dough to approx. 1/8" thickness.

7. 7

   Cut out with sunflower-shaped cutter.

8. 8

   Place onto cookie sheet.

9. 9

   Make a circle shaped indentation into center of cookie using a small glass or any round object.

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    Sprinkle circular area in center of cookie with a mixture of finely ground pecans, cinnamon, and granulated sugar.

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    Place a piece of a slivered almond in each petal of cookie.

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    Sprinkle entire cookie lightly with superfine sugar.

13. 13

    To make cookies on a stem, cut a 3/8" wooden dowel various lengths and press one end of a dowel into cookie about 1" from edge of sunflower.

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    Reinforce by pressing a thin piece of dough on top of dowel.

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    Bake cookies at 375 degrees for approximately 8-10 minutes until lightly browned.

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    Remove from pan carefully and cool on wire racks.

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    When the cookies have completely cooled, wrap floral tape and artificial leaves around the wooden dowels for the cookies baked on dowels to complete the sunflower cookie.

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    Arrange in flowerpot or container of choice.

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    Enjoy!

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    The annual Land O� Lakes sponsored "California Living Butter Cookie Contest." Entrants from all over the Golden State combined California ingredients to bake cookies worthy of blue ribbons and prize money.

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