1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs
3 1/2 cups flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon pure vanilla
1 cup milk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees using the middle rack. Grease a cookie sheet or line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees using the middle rack. Grease a cookie sheet or line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Mix SUGAR AND SHORTENING BEAT UNTIL they are well combined will look
grainy using an electric mixer. ADD the eggs beating through each one.
Then add the flour alternating with milk, add vanilla, then add all the
rest of the dry ingredients in a bowl mixed well.
Drop by heaping well rounded tablespoons on a greased cookie sheet,
(make sure these are molded to be round.) Use a floured finger if you
have too.
Bake on 350 degrees hot oven at least 3 inches apart so they don't touch
when they expand cooking. Bake until slightly browned on the bottom
but not too dark. This is the flat side you will frost.
Cool. Frost half with white frosting and half chocolate frosting or all
dark chocolate for full moons on the flat side of this cookie.
You can use canned or make from scratch below. I highly recommend homemade.
2 cups confectionery sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla
add milk a tablespoon at a time until desired thickness enough to spread on cookie.
add 1 tablespoon shortening to keep it white and a little softer for spreading. This is for the vanilla side
For the chocolate frosting:
Second variation:
Whipped Frosting:
(several bakeries made a fluffy whipped frosting like this one instead)
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup milk
Cook, stirring constantly, until pasty consistency. Cool. (Do not use this mixture until it is really cold).
In a medium size bowl beat the following two ingredients together
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup granulated sugar
Beat 4 minutes.
Add
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat 4 minutes.
Add
Cooled flour mixture
Beat 4 minutes.
The more you beat, the better it is! Double the recipe for large 3 layer cake. Do not use with chocolate powder or make this flavored with chocolate.