St. Patrick's Pot Of Gold Cookies

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Enjoy some Corned Beef And Cabbage, Irish Soda Bread, Grasshopper Pie, and some good Irish brew. To celebrate, I made Pot Of Gold Cookies. I found a recipe for chocolate cookie cups and baked them. Then I made a small batch of green icing - just icing sugar, water, and green food coloring. If I had some mint extract on hand, I would have added a dash of that, it would fit nicely with the Irish theme and would go perfectly with the chocolate. Then I sprinkled some candy-coated chocolates into each cup. What treasures!

Chocolate Cookie Cups
1/4 cup butter or hard margarine, softened
1/2 cup granulated (white) sugar
1 large egg
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup all-purpose (plain) flour
pinch salt

Preheat oven to 350◦F. Grease a 24-cup miniature muffin tin.
In a medium-sized bowl, cream the butter and the sugar. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until smooth. Add the remaining dry ingredients, mix well. Roll dough into small balls and press each into bottom and up sides of the muffin cups.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until firm. Cool, then gently loosen cookies from the tin.

Paré, Jean. "Dirt Cups." Recipe. Most Loved Cookies, Edmonton Alberta: Company's Coming Publishing Limited, 2005. 60.