How Do You Make Polar Express Cookies?
• Combine butter, sugar, and vanilla with a hand mixer. Beat until light and fluffy. Gradually, add and blend in chocolate. • Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to chocolate mixture, alternately with milk. • Stir in raisins with a large spoon, not a hand mixer. • Cover the mixture in tin foil and refrigerate until it is firm. • Heat oven to 350ºF. • Grease cookie sheet with butter or shortening. • Shape dough (mixtures) into about one inch balls; roll into powdered sugar. Place on cookie sheet. Bake in upper third over for twelve to fifteen minutes. This recipe makes about 3 1/2 dozen cookies.
