Poinsettia Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 c. powdered sugar
    1 c. butter or margarine
    2 eggs
    1 tsp. vanilla
    1/2 tsp. rum extract
    3 c. flour
    1 tsp. salt
    1 c. shredded coconut
    3/4 c. butterscotch chips
    1/2 c. red candied cherries
    1/2 c. green candied cherries
Preparation
    Beat together powdered sugar and butter.
    Add eggs, vanilla and rum extract; mix.
    Add flour, salt and shredded coconut; mix well.
    Roll into 1-inch balls.
    Place on ungreased cookie sheet; flatten cookies with bottom of glass dipped in granulated sugar. Place a butterscotch morsel in center of each cookie.
    Take candied cherries and cut in thin wedges.
    Place wedges in strips down from butterscotch chips, alternating red and green until you have a circle to resemble a poinsettia.
    Bake at 375\u00b0 for 12 minutes.

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