vulva/uterus/vagina/breast/penis cookie recipe

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For the last few years I have been on the national Planned Parenthood Voices for Choice VOX e-mail list. I just got an e-mail that I had to share with all of you who love to bake. If you ever feel the need to make cookies for a V-Day or otherwise feminist event please consider making vulva/uterus/vagina/breast/penis cookies.

"Here is the recipe Reed Vox in Portland, Oregon uses. It is actually a recipe for the traditional Jewish cookies, Hamentaschen. One of our members dug up her parents' (both rabbis) recipe. They loved the new use for the traditional cookies.

We use the Murbe Teig dough recipe:

3 cups flour
1.5 cups sugar
1.5 cups butter
3 eggs
6 teaspoons baking powder
6 teaspoons (or to taste) vanilla
lemon rind of three lemons (grated)

Mix by spoon then by hand.
Refrigerate for two hours (or overnight) or freeze for at least 1 hour.

We cut out squares and circles and shape them to whatever genital organ we want to represent. Often for uteri we'll fill the cookie with some sort of jam (pre-baked) and then it will be a gooey, jam-filled, uterus-shaped cookie when it comes out. Don't overfill them though as the jam melts in the oven (and it is really hot and bubbly when it comes out.) Other times we'll decorate breasts with red hots as nipples or use icing to decorate cookies after they are baked. These always go over really well. Use your imagination and shape the cookies how they need to be.

We bake them at 350ish. We have to watch them to make sure they don't burn. It depends on how thinly the dough is rolled as to how quickly they will burn."

2 Comments

Chip Roland said:

Just make sure the vanilla dosen't overpower the lemon

me said:

what a ripoff!! no pictures!!! how am I supposed to make them without a prerequisite picture?!?

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