Stamped Cookies - Lemon Mace Rounds

Cold days are perfect for turning on the oven and baking.

So bake I did.

I wanted to show you how I make my stamped cookies.

You may use any smooth dough that you can drop by the spoonful, 

such as peanut butter, or soft sugar cookies.  

I mixed up a batch of Lemon Mace Rounds.  (recipe at the bottom of this post) 

You can find actual cookie stamps at kitchen specialty stores. 

Or 

you can do what I did:

Look around the house and find a glass or dish that has a cut or pressed pattern.

Butter the bottom of the glass pieces, getting butter into each little crevice.

Dip the buttered glass in a sugar mixture.

Then stamp each ball of dough with the buttered-sugared-glass. 

(Dip back into the sugar mix between each cookie.)

 Bake according to directions.

And Viola!

So pretty!

(I had trouble getting the pattern on the baked cookie to show with the camera flash,

but you get the idea.)

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Lemon Mace Rounds

(from Better Homes and Gardens Cookies and Candies)

2 cups sifted all purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon mace

2 eggs

2/3 cup salad oil

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1/4 cup brown sugar

2 teaspoons lemon juice

2 teaspoons grated lemon peel

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon mace

Sift flour, baking powder, salt and 1/4 teaspoon mace together. Set aside.

Combine next 6 ingredients:  eggs, oil, sugars and lemon juice and peel.   Beat until thick.

Stir in dry ingredients.

Drop by spoonful about 2 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet.

Combine 1/4 cup sugar, nutmeg and mace.

Lightly butter bottom of glass.

Dip in sugar and spice mixture and press cookie flat.

Bake in 400 degree oven for about 8 minutes, until lightly browned.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

Notes:

You may use nutmeg and mace, or just nutmeg.  

You may use just white and brown sugar or just white.

These are easy and delicious.
Super fun to make with your kids.

From Better Homes and Gardens Cookies and Candies, 1972 edition.

We baked from this same cookbook when I was a kid, only it was the 1967 edition.

My sister has that original cookbook now, 

but copied down all the notes we wrote into the margins of our favorite recipes. 

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PS.
For anyone who is not familiar with mace, it's from the same plant as nutmeg.
And it's the flavor used in donuts. So if you like donuts, you like mace.