Sunflower Cookies
A Betty Crocker betty-crocker-cookies recipe for Sunflower Cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine -- softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted sunflower nuts
- 1/4 teaspoon yellow food color
Instructions
- 1
Beat sugar, butter, vanilla and egg in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon.
- 2
Stir in flour, oats, baking powder and salt.
- 3
Divide dough into one-third and two-thirds portions.
- 4
Stir sunflower nuts into one-third dough.
- 5
Stir food color into two-thirds dough.
- 6
Shape sunflower dough into two 3/4-inch rolls, 8 inches long.
- 7
Divide yellow dough in half. Pat each half into rectangle, 8 × 4 inches, on lightly floured surface.
- 8
Top each rectangle with roll of sunflower dough.
- 9
Wrap yellow dough around roll of sunflower dough.
- 10
Press edges together.
- 11
Wrap and refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.
- 12
Heat oven to 350º. Grease cookie sheet.
- 13
Cut rolls into 1/4-inch slices.
- 14
Place about 2 inches apart on cookie sheet.
- 15
Cut slits in outer yellow edge about every 1/2 inch to shape tips of petals.
- 16
Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light brown.
- 17
Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
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