Tweed Squares

  • 2/3 cup butter
  • 2/3 cup white sugar
  • 1 1/3 cup flour
  • 2 tsp, baking powder
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 egg whites
  • 2 tbsp white sugar
  • 2 squares semi-sweet chocolate, grated

Frosting:

  • 1/3 cup butter
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 cup icing sugar

Topping:

  • 2 squares semi-sweet chocolate
  • 1 tbsp butter

Make it Happen!

  1. Cream together butter and sugar
  2. Add flour, baking powder, salt, milk and vanilla to creamed mixture
  3. Beat together egg whites & additional 2 tablespoons of sugar.
  4. Fold egg white mixture into creamed mixture.
  5. Grate two squares of semi sweet chocolate, and fold into mixture.
  6. Bake at 350F until golden brown.
  7. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.
  8. Beat together butter, egg yolks and icing sugar and spread over top of squares.
  9. Melt semi chocolate and 1 tbsp butter and spread over top of square.
  10. Cool and then cut into squares and serve.

 

Did You Know?

The first cookies appear to have been created by accident! Cooks used small amounts of cake batter to test oven temperatures. These small test cakes were called “koekje”, meaning “little cake” in Dutch.

Icebox cookies became very popular in the 1930s, around the same time as the introduction of the electric refrigerator.

In 1957 Pillsbury announced a delicious addition to their line-up: icebox cookies in three flavours of Butterscotch Nut, Crunchy Peanut and Coconutare.

Icebox cookies use a simple dough as their base, with butter, sugar, flour, eggs, salt, flavouring and leavening agent.

Icebox cookies can be made in a multitude of flavours ranging from vanilla to chocolate to lemon or orange, and can be enhanced by adding nuts, fruits, cherries, and a variety of flavourings and spices.

The best thing about icebox cookies is that you make the dough, roll it in a log, and then refrigerate or freeze and use when needed. When ready to use, simply slice cookies off the log and bake for a fresh from- the-oven treat.

Icebox cookies make wonderful hostess gifts -- either baked up, or as frozen gifts to use when desired.