{"id":2157,"date":"2018-03-07T08:26:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2020-12-22T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T19:33:11","slug":"shamrock-cookies-for-saint-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/07\/shamrock-cookies-for-saint-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamrock Cookies for Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day coming up soon, baking shamrock cookies would make for a fun afternoon with the kids or grandchildren.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 cup shortening<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup butter or margarine<\/li>\n<li>2 cups sugar<\/li>\n<li>3 eggs<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup milk<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon vanilla<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>5 cups flour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Click here to buy\u00a0<a title=\"The Rural Route 2 Cookbook\" href=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2cookbook.com\/\">The Rural Route 2 Cookbook)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cream shortening and sugar together. Beat in eggs. Stir in milk, vanilla and salt. Mix in flour. Work the dough with your hands for a minute before rolling out.<\/p>\n<p>Roll out the dough to 1\/8 inch thick. Use flour as needed to roll out the cookies.<\/p>\n<p>For each shamrock, you will need 3 heart-shaped cookies. Place one heart on an ungreased cookie sheet, then put one heart on each side at a 90-degree angle so the tips at the bottom are overlapping. Gently press the cookies together where they overlap. Take a lump of dough the size of a small walnut. Roll into a rope. Press one inch of the rope onto the bottom of the shamrock. Shape the remaining rope into a stem and flatten gently. (Four or five shamrocks will fit on each cookie sheet.)<\/p>\n<p>Bake in a 350 degree oven for 12 minutes, or until golden brown. Immediately remove the cookies from the cookie sheet and allow to cool.<\/p>\n<p>When the cookies are cooled thoroughly, frost with shamrock icing. For added decoration, use cookie sprinkles, if desired.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shamrock Icing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(makes enough to frost 2 dozen Shamrock Cookies)<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"750\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tablestyle5\" valign=\"top\">\n<ul>\n<li>3 cups of powdered sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup soft butter or margarine<\/li>\n<li>5 or 6 tablespoons milk<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon vanilla<\/li>\n<li>10 drops green food coloring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Measure the powdered sugar into a mixing bowl. Work the butter\/margarine into the dry powdered sugar with a mixing spoon. Add salt and vanilla. Add the milk 1 tablespoon at a time and mix thoroughly after each addition. When the icing is finished, add the food coloring and mix thoroughly.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 101.054px; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1074\" title=\"cookie5\" src=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cookie5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"184\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1075\" title=\"finished2\" src=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/finished2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"156\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1076\" title=\"decorated\" src=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/decorated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"121\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Click here to buy <a title=\"The Rural Route 2 Cookbook\" href=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2cookbook.com\/\"> The Rural Route 2 Cookbook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day coming up soon, baking shamrock cookies would make for a fun afternoon with the kids or grandchildren. 1\/2 cup shortening 1\/2 cup butter or margarine 2 cups sugar 3 eggs 1\/4 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1\/2 teaspoon salt 5 cups flour (Click here to buy\u00a0The Rural Route 2 Cookbook) Cream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[243,242,244],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rural-route-2","tag-cookies","tag-recipes","tag-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}