Sugar Plum Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, room temp
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup chopped sugared gumdrop
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar, for dipping into
• 26 small sugared gumdrops

Recipe

• 1 heat oven 350.
• 2 degrees f.
• 3 chop your sugared gumdrops into small pieces, i use scissors, or a sugared or floured paring knife. a little tedious job, but once its done, the recipe is a breeze.
• 4 mix butter and sugar and cream well with wooden spoon.
• 5 (if using hand mixer do not over beat the butter and sugar, this will make the butter ooozz out while baking and end up with a buttery greasy cookie.).
• 6 stir in the flour and the chopped gumdrops.( a tip is to use 1/4 cup of the flour tossed into the chopped gumdrops, so that they stay seperate after cutting.).
• 7 shape dough into balls. this doesnt want to hold together well, so just squeeze each ball tightly to form.
• 8 place onto cookie sheet.
• 9 press a greased glass into the granulated sugar, and then press down on each cookie to 1/2 inch thick.
• 10 cut the small drops into pieces and press a few into each cookie.
• 11 bake 10 minutes, or until edges are light golden.
• 12 remove to wire rack.
• 13 cool completely.
• 14 you will see that these are crumbly to make balls, you might even think that they won't hold up.
• 15 but do not add any more butter.
• 16 that is the reason that the last drops are pressed into place before baking.