3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1-1/2 cups butter or margarine,
softened
1/4 teaspoon orange paste food
coloring
1 cup sugar
1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup homemade or purchased creamy
chocolate frosting
18 green jelly beans, cut
crosswise in half
In a medium mixing bowl stir
together flour and baking powder.
Set flour mixture aside. In a
large mixing bowl beat butter or
margarine and food coloring with
an electric mixer on medium speed
for 30 seconds. Add sugar and beat
until fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla, then beat
well. Stir in flour mixture. Do
not chill dough. Put the flower
plate onto a cookie press. Pack
dough, half at a time, into the
cookie press. Press dough into
flowers on ungreased cookie
sheets. Bake in a 400 degree F
oven for 7 to 8 minutes or until
cookies are just light brown
around edges. Remove cookies to a
wire rack, then cool completely.
Spread the flat side of half of
the cookies with some frosting.
Top with remaining cookies to form
pumpkins. For stems, attach one
jelly bean half to the top of each
cookie with frosting. Let stand
for 1 to 2 hours or until frosting
is slightly dry.
Makes 36 cookies.
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