Peanut Butter King Cake Cookie

Yields:	3 cakes
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	Preparation	20 minutes
	Cooking	10 minutes
	Ready In	45 minutes

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Ingredients

1/2	cup	vegetable shortening
1 1/4	cups	brown sugar	firmly packed
3/4	cup	peanut butter	creamy
3	tablespoons	milk
1	tablespoon	vanilla extract
1	each	egg
1 3/4	cups	flour, all-purpose
3/4	teaspoon	salt
3/4	teaspoon	baking soda
3	each	chocolate kisses	or, chocolate candy-coated pieces

Icing
2 1/2	cups	powdered sugar
1/3	cup	vegetable shortening
2	tablespoons	milk
2	teaspoons	corn syrup
1	x	food coloring

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375F (190C). Line three baking sheets with foil. Grease with shortening.

2. For cookies, combine shortening, brown sugar, peanut butter, milk, and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Add egg. Beat just until blended.

3. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended.

4. Divide dough into 3 equal parts. Working with 1/3 of dough at a time, break off 8 equal pieces of dough. Roll into balls. Hide a chocolate kiss in one of the 8 balls, molding dough with fingers around chocolate kiss.

(This is the prize.)

Arrange balls on baking sheet almost touching in a 6-inch (15 cm) circle. Flatten balls slightly with fingers. Repeat with remaining balls to make two more circles.

5. Bake one baking sheet at a time at 375F (190C) for 9 to 11 minutes, or until set. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Cool 5 to 8 minutes on baking sheet before removing cookie on foil to countertop to cool completely.

6. For icing, combine icing sugar, shortening, milk and corn syrup. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until smooth. If too thick, add additional milk, a few drops at a time. If too thin, add additional icing sugar.

7. Divide icing into half. Place 1/2 into a large bowl. Divide other half into three small bowls .Add yellow food colour to one small bowl until desired shade is achieved and mix well.

Add equal amounts of yellow and blue food colour to the second small bowl to make a green icing. Add equal amounts of blue and red food colour to the third small bowl to make a purple icing.

Place coloured icings in small resealable plastic bags.

Seal. Cut tiny tip off corner of each bag. Frost each cookie with white icing using spatula or knife. Pipe coloured icings decoratively over each cake.

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