GERMAN WREATHS

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Made with hard-boiled eggs! Often a Christmas cookie but good any time.

Provided by Rosina

Yield 60

Number Of Ingredients 6

Ingredients

¾ cup shortening
1 ½ cups confectioners' sugar
2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 eggs, separated
⅓ cup confectioners' sugar for decoration

Steps:

In large bowl cream together shortening and confectioners' sugar. Beat in uncooked egg yolks and hard-boiled eggs. Gradually blend in flour. Cover dough and chill for 8 hours or overnight.
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and lightly grease two cookie sheets.
Roll out dough on floured surface to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut into pencil thick strips about 6 to 8 inches long.
For each cookie, braid three strips and form into a circle pinching ends together. Place cookies 1 inch apart on cookie sheets. Brush with the beaten eggwhites. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until lightly colored. Cool on wire racks.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 57 calories, Carbohydrate 6.9 g, Cholesterol 13.3 mg, Fat 2.9 g, Fiber 0.1 g, Protein 0.8 g, SaturatedFat 0.8 g, Sodium 4.5 mg, Sugar 3.6 g