European Recipes : Danish Recipes : Chocolate-gilded Danish Sugar Cones

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       Title: CHOCOLATE-GILDED DANISH SUGAR CONES
Categories: Cookies
       Yield: 16 servings

     1/2 c Butter or margarine,
            -softened
     1/2 c Sugar
     1/2 c All-purpose flour
       2    Egg whites
       1 t Vanilla
       3 oz Bittersweet chocolate
            -OR
     1/2 c Semisweet chocolate chips

   Preheat oven to 400'F. Generously grease 4 cookie sheets. Beat butter and
   sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy. Blend in flour. In clean, dry
   bowl, beat egg whites until frothy. Blend into butter mixture with
   vanilla.

   Using measuring teaspoon, place 4 mounds of dough, 4" apart, on each
   prepared cookie sheet. Spread mounds with back of spoon dipped in water to
   3" diameter. Bake, 1 sheet at a time, 5-6 minutes or until edges are just
   barely golden. (Do not overbake or cookies become crisp too quickly and
   are difficult to shape.) Remove from oven and quickly loosen each cookie
   from cookie sheet with thin spatula. Shape each into a cone; cones become
   firm as they cool. (If cookies become too firm to shape, return to oven
   for a few seconds to soften.)

   Melt chocolate in small bowl over hot, not boiling, water. Stir until
   smooth. When all cookies are baked and cooled, dip flared ends into melted
   chocolate. Let stand until chocolate is set. If desired, serve cones by
   standing them in a bowl. (Adding about 1" of sugar to bottom of bowl may
   be necessary to hold them upright.)