*  Exported from  MasterCook  *

              Easter Bonnet Butter Cookies - House Beautifu

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Serving Size  : 16   Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Holidays

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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   1      recipe        butter cookie dough -- butter cookies
     1/2  pound         marzipan and cooled separate recipe -- available at see
                        -- separate recipe coloring -- mother & baby
                        -- rabbit
     1/2  cup           confectioners' sugar
     1/2  cup           apricot jam -- sieved, heated
   1      recipe        mock fondant -- see
   1      recipe        royal icing -- see
                        paste or liquid food cake supply stores

Roll butter cookie dough on a floured surface 1/4-inch
thick and cut out cookies with a 4 1/2-inch-round
fluted cutter, Place dough on parchment-lined cookie
sheets and bake in a preheated 350' oven for 10 to 15
minutes, rotating pans halfway through baking time.
Cool cookies on wire racks.  Makes about 16 cookies.

Prepare crown of hat: Dust a board with confectioners'
sugar and roll out marzipan Ih inch thick and cut out
rounds with a 1 1/2-inch-round cookie cutter.  Makes
about 16 rounds.

Assemble cookie: Brush cookie base with a thin coating
ofapricotjam, attach marzipan crown to the center of
the cookie and paint the crown with the jam.  Set aside
1 hour.  Pour mock fondant over crown and guide it
along cookie base almost to the edge with the back of
a small spoon.  Leave overnight to set.

All decorations are made with royal icing.  In small
bowls mix icing with paste or liquid colors ofyour
choice and half-fill small pastry bags fitted with
decorative tubes.  Keep all filled pastry bags and
bowls of icing covered with plastic wrap when not in
use.

Flowers are made with #78 decorative tip fitted to a
small pastry bag.  Pipe flowers onto waxed paper, dry,
and store in airtight containers.  Flowers can be made
months in advance.  Place hat on a turntable and, using
a #47 tip, pipe ribbon around the crown and
immediately attach flowers to ribbon.  Pipe tiny green
leaves using decorative tip #349 or #350.  Fill centers
of flowers and spaces between flowers and leaves with
a #2 decorative tip.



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