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School Days Lunches matches your child's active, healthy lifestyle with a fun, new collection of nutritious, kid-friendly hot/cold lunch and snack recipes for home and school.
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School Days Lunches
Sprinkle Cookies

Sprinkle Cookies      "Sprinkle Cookies" is available in PDF format print friendly version

Bright and colourful. Scrumptious cookies with a light lemon glaze.
 
Brown sugar, packed2/3 cup150 mL
Large egg11
Cooking oil1/4 cup60 mL
Vanilla1/2 tsp.2 mL
 
All-purpose flour3/4 cup175 mL
Quick-cooking rolled oats (not instant)1/3 cup75 mL
Baking powder1 tsp.5 mL
Baking soda1/4 tsp.1 mL
 
LEMON GLAZE
Icing (confectioner's) sugar3/4 cup175 mL
Milk1 tbsp.15 mL
Lemon juice2 tsp.10 mL
Hard margarine (or butter)2 tsp.10 mL
 
Drops of yellow liquid food colouring1 - 2 1 - 2
 
Candy sprinkles1/2 cup125 mL
 
Beat brown sugar and egg in medium bowl until thick and pale. Add cooking oil and vanilla. Beat well.

Combine next 4 ingredients in small bowl. Add to brown sugar mixture. Mix well. Cover. Chill for 1 to 2 hours until just firm. Roll dough into balls, using 1 tbsp. (15 mL) for each. Arrange balls about 2 inches (5 cm) apart on greased cookie sheets. Bake in 375°F (190°C) oven for 8 to 10 minutes until golden. Let stand on cookie sheets for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool.

Lemon Glaze: Combine first 4 ingredients in small saucepan. Heat and stir on medium for about 3 minutes until smooth. Remove from heat. Let stand for about 5 minutes until slightly thickened.

Add food colouring. Stir well. Spread 1 tsp. (5 mL) glaze on each cookie.

Measure candy sprinkles into shallow dish. Dip cookies, glaze-side down, into sprinkles. Let stand, glaze-side up, on wire rack for about 30 minutes until glaze is set. Store in airtight container. Makes 1 1/2 dozen (18) cookies.
 
1 cookie: 161 Calories; 4.1 g Total Fat (2.3 g Mono, 1.1 g Poly, 0.4 g Sat); 12 mg Cholesterol; 31 g Carbohydrate; trace Fibre; 1 g Protein; 55 mg Sodium
 
Kids Can Help: Measuring dry ingredients. Rolling dough into balls. Dipping glazed cookies in sprinkles.

 
 
Reprinted from School Days Lunches © Company's Coming Publishing Limited

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