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    Home » Top Amish Recipes » Cookies, Candies & Bars

    Amish Church Cookies

    Published: Aug 4, 2014 · Updated: Aug 4, 2014 by Kevin Williams | Leave a Comment

    Amish church services can be three hours long.  This can make for some restless children (and adults) so at many Amish church services a plate of cookies are passed around to the children during the service. Nothing satisfies the soul more for a kid than a cookie. Of course once the sugar begins coursing through their bodies the cookies may have the opposite effect of what was intended!  These cookies are light and airy and sugar and add a thin layer of frosting to them and they are doubly sweet. Yum!  There are, by the way, different variations of "church cookies", so don't take this as gospel (pun sort of intended). Each church, each cook has their own favorite.  Amish church services are held at home usually so the personality churchcookieof the cook comes out in the cookie.

    Amish Church Cookies
     
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    Ingredients
    • Amish Church Cookies
    • 1 cup white sugar
    • 2 cups brown sugar
    • 1½ cups shortening
    • 4 eggs
    • 1¼ cups cream or evaporated milk
    • 1 tsp. vanilla
    • 2 tsp. baking powder
    • Pinch salt
    • Approx. 5 cups flour (don't make dough too stiff)
    Instructions
    1. Cream together sugars, shortening, and eggs; add vanilla.
    2. Add baking powder and salt to flour.
    3. Add cream or milk alternately with the flour to the butter mixture and blend for a soft dough.
    4. Chill the dough for a few hours.
    5. Roll out dough and sprinkle white sugar over the top and roll the sugar in very lightly.
    6. Bake about 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
    7. Add frosting or sprinkles when cool.
    8. This makes about 5½ dozen 4" cookies.
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