Gift Giving Edible Cookie Bowl

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup shortening
• 1/3 cup butter
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon milk
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 dash salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 add shortening and butter to a mixing bowl.
• 2 beat with an electric mixer until softened and well blended.
• 3 add half of the flour, sugar, egg, milk, baking powder and salt to the flour.
• 4 beat until thoroughly combined.
• 5 stir in remaining flour.
• 6 divide dough in half.
• 7 cover and refrigerate for 3 hours.
• 8 meanwhile, invert a 1 or 1 1/2 quart ovenproof bowl on a cookie sheet. cover the bowl with foil. grease the foil and set aside.
• 9 for a pattern, cut out a 9 inch circle of parchment paper.
• 10 to make bowls-------------.
• 11 roll out one of the dough packages between 2 sheets of wax paper to a 10-11 inch circle.
• 12 lay your 9 inch pattern on top. cut with a knife or fluted pastry cutter around the pattern.
• 13 if desired, cut out of the scrap dough decorative shapes and place them on another cookie sheet.
• 14 remove one sheet of the wax paper and carefully invert dough over bowl.
• 15 remove other sheet and form dough around bowl.
• 16 bake the cookie bowl in a 350° f oven, about 15 minutes or until edges turn a light brown.
• 17 transfer the cookie bowl to a wire rack to cool.
• 18 then carefully remove the cookie bowl from bowl it was baked on.
• 19 bake the decorative shapes, if you did them, for about 6 minutes or till the edges are a light brown.
• 20 cool and attach with a little frosting.