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      Title: Half Moon Cookies
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 24 Cookies
 
  1 3/4 c  Sugar
      1 c  Butter; softened
      4 lg Eggs
      1 c  Milk
    1/2 ts Vanilla extract
    1/4 ts Lemon extract
  2 1/2 c  Cake flour
  2 1/2 c  Flour
      1 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Salt
      4 c  Confectioner's sugar
    1/3 c  Water; up to 1/2 c, boiling
      1 oz Bittersweet chocolate
 
  Preheat the oven to 375°F. Butter 2 baking sheets and set aside.

  Cookies:

  In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar and butter and mix by
  machine or hand until fulffy. Add the eggs, milk, vanilla, and
  lemon extract and mix until smooth.

  In a medium bowl, combine the flours, baking powder, and salt, and
  stir until mixed. Add the dry ingredients to the wet in batches,
  stirring well to combine. Usine a soup spoon, drop spoonfuls of the
  dough 2" apart on the prepared baking sheets. Bake until the edges
  begin to brown, 20 to 30 mintues. Allow to cool completely.

  Frosting:

  Place the confectioners' sugar in a large bowl. Gradually add
  enough of the boiling water to the sugar, stirring constantly,
  until mixture is thick and spreadable.

  Remove half of the frosting to the top half of a double boiler set
  over simmering water and add the chocolate. Warm the mixture,
  stirring, until the chocolate is melted and the frosting is smooth.
  Remove from the heat. With a brush, coat half the flat side of the
  cookies with chocolate frosting and the other half with white
  frosting. These are a puffy cake-like cookies

  Recipe by Sally Beauchamp
 
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