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      Title: Hot Shades Cookies
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 18 servings
 
      3 c  All-purpose flour
      1 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Salt
    3/4 c  Butter; softened
    1/2 c  Shortening
  1 1/2 c  Granulated sugar
      1    Egg
      1 ts Lemon extract
      4    Rolls fruit-flavored life
           -savers
           Or other colorful hard candy
 
  Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 8/5/96
     In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt; set
  aside.
     In a large mixer bowl, beat butter and shortening together. Add sugar
  and beat until light and fluffy; beat in egg and extract. With mixer at low
  speed, gradually blend in flour mixture just until well-mixed. Turn dough
  out onto a sheet of plastic wrap, cover with another sheet, flatten into a
  disc and chill until firm, 15 to 30 minutes.
  
     While the dough is chilling, give each child a few 3-by-5-inch index
  cards. Cut each card to resemble a pair of sunglasses (just the frames, not
  the temples); set patterns aside. Divide Life Savers by colors. Place each
  color in a freezer-weight zipper-sealed plastic bag and crack coarsely with
  a tin can or meat mallet.
  
     Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place about half the dough on a surface
  lightly sprinkled with flour. Sprinkle dough lightly with additional flour
  and roll to about 1/4-inch thick. Lay sunglasses patterns on dough and cut
  around. Cut holes for "lenses" out of each cookie, leaving "frame" at least
  1/2-inch wide all around. Lift cookies onto a lightly greased, foil-lined
  baking sheet. Spoon crushed candy into lens holes, filling level with top
  of cookie. Bake 7 to 9 minutes; let cool completely on sheets. Carefully
  peel off foil. Yield: 18 large cookies.
 
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