Squash Cookies

Are you looking for a cookie recipe with vegetable? I mean a vegetarian cookie? I think this cookie recipe here is what you are looking for. This is a squash cookie recipe made from mashed squash combined with raisin and chopped nuts.

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Squash Cookies

Manny

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Course Pastries

Cuisine Filipino

Servings 10 servings

Ingredients

  

• 2 1/2 cups enriched flour
• 1 1/2 cups firmly packed light Brown sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ginger powdered
• 1/2 teaspoon orange extract
• 1/3 cup oil for shortening
• 1 cup chopped raisins
• 1 cup chopped nuts
• 1 cup mashed cooked kalabasa squash
• 3 eggs

Instructions

 

• How to make Kalabasa (Squash) Cookies
• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and spices.
• In large mixing bowl, cream together shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Blend in kalabasa and orange extract.
• Add flour mixture all at once, stirring until well-blended Reserve 2 tablespoons nuts and 2 tablespoons raisins.
• Stir remaining nuts and raisins into batter.
• Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased baking sheets.
• Sprinkle 1/3 of the cookies with reserved nuts, 1/3 with reserved raisins and the remaining plain.
• Bake at 400 °F for from 12 to 15 minutes or until slightly brown.
• Yield: 10 servings.