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Joan picked up a paperback cookbook at a garage sale. ' A World of Desserts and Delicacies from SOLO'. Solo is a brand of canned fillings for cakes and coolies, like Almond Paste, Poppy Seed, Prune etc.

Well a newspaper clipped recipe fell out from the book (this was about 2 years after we bought the book).

Joan made the cookies twice and we really liked them enuf to add them to our collection.

For a couple of years the ingredients section of 'Family Recipe Central' hasn't worked, so I'm putting the recipe here and listing the ingredients and procedures below.

Joan picked up a cookbook at a garage sale. The title is " A World of Desserts and Delicacies from Solo". Solo is a brand of canned cake and cookie fillings like Almaond Paste, Poppy Seed, Prune, Date etc.

At home she opened the book to make an almond cake BUT a newspaper clipped recipe fell out. The original owners of the book had tucked it in between pages. It sounded like a really chocolately, fudge cookie so Joan tried itl I looked up similiar cookies but didn't find one exactly like it.

Well, it's just delicious. We decided to add it to our family recipe. 

This really works:

1 1/2 cups butter (3 sticks)

1 cup sugar

2 large egg yolks

3 3/4 cups sifted flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 Tablespoon vanilla

Sanding Sugars

1. Cream the butter and sugar

2. Mix in the yolks, flour, salt and vanilla

3. Do not refrigerate

4. Put through Cookie Press

350º for 7 to 10 minutes

There are subtle differences bewteen this and Mom's recipe. Mostly, you can use this dough right after mixing. With Mom's, you must chill the dough first.

I made this cake to be filled and frosted with whipped cream. I used the stabilized whipped cream frosting recipe (stabilized with Mascarpone cheese).

I covered the top of the cake with sliced strawberries tossed in Strawberry Glaze (recipe here also). I filled in the gaps between the berries using a piping bag filled with the same glaze.

I baked it in an oversized rectangular pan. When cooled, I split the cake in half.

This is a test recipe.