Aunt Chick's Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Cookie Recipe

CREAM IN A MIXING BOWL COMBINE:

3/4 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup sugar

1 package (3 ounces) strawberry gelatin

BEAT IN:

1 Egg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

 IN SEPERATE BOWL COMBINE:

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Combine cream mixture gradually with flour mixture.

Chill dough for 1/4 hour (dough will harden if it gets too cold). Roll dough out to 1/8" thickness and flour strawberry cookie cutter. Cut out cookies one time through just making outline of the cookies. Go back and reflour cookie cutter picking up the cutout shapes and press dough into the cutter mold. Slap cookie out into your hand and put on an ungreased baking sheet (make sure the cookie sheet is NOT an airbake cookie sheet).

Bake cookies at 400 degrees for 6-8n minutes or until set (do not brown). Remove to wire racks to cool. YIELDS 6 dozen cookies.

TO DECORATE:

Using a little bit of Vodka, mix into green luster dust to make a paintable substance. Paint on strawberry stems and sprinkle with green sanding sugar. Then dip cookies into tempered milk chocolate and let cool on a wire rack.

Recipe Source: http://www.auntchicks.com/cookies_strawberry.asp