ANGEL KISSES aka WOMEN CONFERENCE COOKIES

KISSES:
2 cups flour
2 cups butter
1 ½ cups cornstarch
2/3 cup powdered sugar

FROSTING:
6 oz. cream cheese & about 2 Tblsp. Butter
2 ½ cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Light purple coloring (or what ever)

Mix the basic 4 ingredients together until the dough is smooth (use a mixer). Roll dough into small balls. Use about 1 tsp. per cookie (roll into smooth balls between your palms so they are about the size of a big marble- these are best as 1 bite cookies. If they are too big and you have to actually bite into them, the second half crumbles in your hand! Place on parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
Bake at 300 degrees for about 20 minutes. They have just the slightest golden tinge on the bottom. Don’t over cook! Cool on wire racks. Frost with beautiful pale purple frosting - OR WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE. At the Women's Conference they looked like sunflowers! Use a small knife and the goal is to put a nice big swirl of the frosting on the top of the cookie. Get as much on there as possible! (Use a mixer for the frosting & don’t let
it sit uncovered. You may have to add more powdered sugar to get it to ‘hold’! It depends on the weather!

Hint – the amount of powdered sugar is approximate. I used to use 2 cups and now for some reason – the frosting is just too soft. It should be thick enough so that you can see the swirl on top – yet not too thick so it is dry and stiff. Start with a bit less and add as necessary.
Hint – Regarding the size of the cookie. These are tiny & delicate. If you make them too big, they crumble when you bite into them. Start with about the size large marble. It seems like a ridiculously small amount of dough. 1 recipe makes about 125 cookies. If you use sparkles, edible glitter or some decoration – you have to put on while frosting is wet. Once frosted you can store in a pan with a lid. Lay them on paper towels so they don’t slide around to transfer them to another location. Obviously they cannot be stacked!