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 ts 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.)
  
  Makes 16 cookies
  
  From Favorite All Time Recipes - Homemade Holiday Cookies, Publication
  International, Ltd., ISBN 0-7853-0147-X.
  
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