Silhouette Cookies

Total Time: 4 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 4 hrs Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (no substitutes)
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 unsweetened chocolate squares (1 oz each)
• 1/3 cup butter (refrigerator temp for electric mixer, slightly softened for hand mixing, margarine or shortening can)
• 6 ounces cream cheese
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 starting with sugar cookies:.
• 2 cream butter and sugar well.
• 3 beat in eggs and vanilla.
• 4 sift together flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture.
• 5 cover and chill dough for at least 3 hours or overnight.
• 6 about an hour before you want to start baking make chocolate cookies:
• 7 melt chocolate in a double boiler or very slowly in the microwave; set aside to cool.
• 8 cream butter, cream cheese and sugar well. add chocolate.
• 9 beat in egg and vanilla.
• 10 sift together flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture.
• 11 fill cookie press and form cookies on ungreased cookie sheets. chill for 30 minutes.
• 12 preheat oven to 375°f
• 13 while chocolate cookies are chilling, roll the sugar cookie dough out onto a lightly floured pastry mat to about 1/8-1/4" thickness.
• 14 cut out with a 2" round cookie cutter.
• 15 place on ungreased baking sheets.
• 16 lift chilled chocolate cookies with a spatula and place on top of each sugar cookie.
• 17 bake at 375°f for about 10 minutes.