Chocolate Whiskey Balls

Ingredients:

8 cups Flour

2 Tsp Baking Powder

1 Tsp Baking Soda

2 cups Sugar

3/4 cup Cocoa

2 cup Shortening

1/4 Tsp Salt

1 Tsp Cinnamon

1 Tsp Cloves

1/4 Tsp Black Pepper

2 cups Milk

2 cups Chopped Nuts

4 jiggers Whiskey

Directions:

Sift together dry ingredients.  Next adding shortening and the liquid ingredients. Then knead dough with hands. Last roll dough into balls the size of a walnut. 

Bake 12 to 15 minutes at 350 degrees. Do not over bake!

Frosting

Ingredients:

2 1/2 boxes Confectioners Sugar

1 Tsp Butter or Oil

6 Tbl Cocoa

Warm Coffee

Directions:

Mix dry ingredients.  Add warm coffee until it is runnier than regular cake frosting and can be spread over the cookie with your fingers. Messy but Good.

And here you have Chocolate Whiskey Balls!!

S-Shaped Italian Cookies

Ingredients:

4 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1 cup margarine

3 eggs

1/3 cup milk

2 tbsp baking powder

1 -1/2 tsp of flavoring (vanilla, lemon, anise) 

Directions:   Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 

Sifting:

Sift together flour, baking powder and sugar

Mixing:

Beat eggs

Kneading:

Make a well and cut in margarine, eggs, flavoring (vanilla, lemon or anise) and milk.  Knead together until smooth.  Once combined roll dough into balls and bake for 13 minutes.

*Note that dough may be sticky, do not add more flour.  Just pat hand with flour before rolling and do not bake too close together*

Frosting

Ingredients:

4 cups of sugar

1/4 cup Wesson vegetable oil

Water

Mixing the frosting:

Mix together sugar and wesson oil.  Slow add water until the right consistency.  I like to use pink for vanilla cookies, yellow for lemon cookies and green for the anise cookies. 

Frosting the cookies:

Finished Cookies!

These might actually be my favorite cookies!  I have tried baking these a few times, but they never seem to come out the way my Aunts make them.  While I was home I decided to take a lesson form my Aunt Annie.  I usually make a few batches so the pink cookies are the vanilla flavoring, then substitute the vanilla for lemon (yellow cookies), and anise (green cookies).

Crushcakes Cupcakery

Crushcakes is a must in Santa Barbara!!  I was there visiting a friend to celebrate her graduation, and we had to get some cupcakes while we were there.  I got a vegan chocolate cupcake with strawberry frosting, so good!!

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