Ingredients and Preparation

• Prepared filling choices - poppy seed, apricot, almond, or prune

• Sugar cookie dough - choose
  1) your favorite recipe
  2) already-prepared refrigerated dough from the store,
  or
  3) the following recipe:
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 stick butter, cut into small pieces
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 3 tablespoons orange juice

Preparation:

• Combine all the dry ingredients and stir to blend.

• Cut in the butter until the combined mixture resembles a course meal.

• Add the beaten egg and orange juice and mix until the dough forms. Chill the dough.

• Set the chilled dough on the floured parchment paper, then sprinkle more flour on top of the dough. Cover the dough with another sheet of parchment.

• Kids will love rolling the dough to 1/8 inch thick. Remove the top sheet of paper and cut shapes with a 3 inch round cookie cutter or use a tin can or drinking glass for a circle pattern.

• Dab a teaspoon of your favorite filling on the center of each circle.

• Fold the edge of the circle inward toward the center in thirds to form a triangle shape.

• Lightly pinch together 3 edges of the 3 joined sections of dough, leaving a small opening in the center for the filling to peek through.

• Bake on a cookie sheet covered with a sheet of parchment paper for 20 minutes in a 400 degree oven.

• Remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack.

Dust cookies lightly with powdered sugar before serving.

Important note: Adult supervision and participation is required for this activity.

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