Chocolate-Mint Sandwich Cookies

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
~Irish Blessing


St. Patrick's Day is tomorrow, March 17. Our family enjoys celebrating all holidays with food. Tomorrow for dinner our menu includes corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots. These Chocolate-Mint Sandwich Cookies with green mint filling make a perfect dessert.

Cookies
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Double-Strength Vanilla Extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup Watkins Baking Cocoa
1 teaspoon Watkins Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup milk

Filling
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1/4 teaspoon Watkins Pure Peppermint Extract
2 to 3 drops green food coloring, optional

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla; mix well. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Shape into two 10-1/2-in. rolls; wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate overnight.

Unwrap dough and cut into 1/8-in. slices. Place 2 in. apart on lightly greased baking sheets. Bake at 325° F for 9-11 minutes or until edges are set. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Combine filling ingredients; beat until smooth. Add food coloring if desired. Spread on the bottom of half of the cookies; top with remaining cookies. Yield: 5 dozen.

Eleisia
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St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic. ~Adrienne Cook

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Everybody Knows:
You can't be all things to all people.
You can't do all things at once.
You can't do all things equally well.
You can't do all things better than everyone else.
Your humanity is showing just like everyone else's.

So:
You have to find out who you are, and be that.
You have to decide what comes first, and do that.
You have to discover your strengths, and use them.
You have to learn not to compete with others,
Because no one else is in the contest of *being you*.

Then:
You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness.
You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions.
You will have learned to live with your limitations.
You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due.
And you'll be a most vital mortal.

Dare To Believe:
That you are a wonderful, unique person.
That you are a once-in-all-history event.
That it's more than a right, it's your duty, to be who you are.
That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish.
And you'll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down.

- author unknown

Eleisia Whitney
Independent Watkins Manager
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