Chocolate Dipped Creams AKA Neenahs
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These are a special family favorite around the holidays. The nickname - Neenahs - comes from the way they look when you shape them into thumb-sized bars and dip one end in melted chocolate. You figure it out.
Ingredients
1 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup cornstarch
1/8 tsp. salt
1 cup butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 cup melted chocolate pieces
candy sprinkles, nuts, etc.
Directions
- Sift flour and cornstarch together.
- Cream butter.
- Add sugar gradually to butt
- Cream well.
- Add vanilla and salt.
- Add sifted dry ingredients.
- Mix well.
- Refrigerate 2 - 3 hours.
- Shape into small balls, crescents or thumb-sized bars.
- Place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.
- Bake at 375° for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Roll in powdered sugar while hot, or sift the sugar over the top of the cookies while they are on the cookie sheet.
- Allow to cool.
- Dip one end of each cookie in melted chocolate, then in sprinkles, nuts or whatever.
- Allow the chocolate to cool and harden before storing.
Makes 6 dozen.