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Ang-Rich
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Holiday Cookie Recipes
I'm starting to collect my ideas for the cookies I'll be making this year and wanted to share one I found. Please post any recipes that you have.
Mocha Truffle Cookies
1/2 c. butter [unsalted is best, if you have it] 1/2 c. semisweet chocolate pieces 1 T. instant coffee crystals [Folgers, etc] 3/4 c. sugar 3/4 c. packed brown sugar 2 beaten eggs 2 t. vanilla 2 c. all-purpose flour 1/3 c. unsweetened cocoa powder 1/4 t. salt 1 c. semisweet chocolate pieces
In a large saucepan melt butter and the 1/2 cup chocolate pieces over low heat. Remove from heat. Stir in coffee crystals; cool 5 minutes. Stir in sugars, eggs, and vanilla. Preheat oven to 350.
In a medium mixing bowl combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Stir into coffee mixture. Stir in the 1 cup chocolate pieces. Drop dough by rounded tablespoons onto lightly greased cookie sheets.
Bake in a 350 degree F oven 10 minutes. Let cool 1 minute before removing from sheet. Makes 30 cookies.
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Posted 11/3/05 1:40 PM |
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momAGAIN
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
chocolate covered cherry cookies!!!
1 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2/3 cup packed brown sugar 1/2 cup shortening 1 egg 1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice 2 tablespoons milk 2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1/4 cup maraschino cherries, chopped 18 large marshmallows 36 walnut halves
Directions 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). 2 Sift together flour, soda and salt and set aside. 3 Cream shortening and gradually add 2/3 cup brown sugar. Blend in 1 unbeaten egg. Beat well. Stir in HALF of the flour mixture. 4 Add 1/4 cup maraschino cherry juice and 2 tablespoons milk. Stir in the remaining dry ingredients and mix well. 5 Blend in 2 squares of melted chocolate, walnuts, and maraschino cherries. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheets. 6 Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. 7 Cut the marshmallows in half and place cut side down on hot cookies. Cool on rack and frost with Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookie Frosting and top each with a nut half.
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Posted 11/4/05 10:14 AM |
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jmf423
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
I love this time of year and deciding on what x-mas cookies to make! I always try a few new ones but have my old favorites too. Here are some of my faves. Enjoy!!!
Anise Cookies
2 cups sugar 2 sticks softened margarine 1 oz anise extract 5 eggs 3cups flour confectioners sugar (to dust on top)
Cream together sugar and margarine. Add eggs one at a time. Slowly add flour. Blend in anise.
Bake in a greased 10x15 pan for 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees. Sprinkle with confectioners sugar and cut into bite size pieces. (these are little bite size cookies, not anise toast)
Thumbprint Cookies
1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup shortening 1/4 cup brown sugar 1 egg (seperated) 1/2 tsp vanilla 1 cup flour 1/2 tsp salt 3/4 cup finely chopped almonds raspberry jam
Mix butter, shortening, egg yolk and vanilla thoroughly. Work in the flour and salt. Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Dip into the egg white and then roll in the almonds. Place 1 inch apart on ungreases cookie sheet. Press thumb into center of each cookie. Bake 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees until light brown. Let set 3-5 minutes on cookie sheet and then remove. When cool, fill center "thumbprint" with raspberry jam.
I also love to dip oreos and pretzels in chocolate!! Yummy!!!
Message edited 11/5/2005 11:13:06 PM.
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Posted 11/4/05 12:09 PM |
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jmf423
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
Pecan Tassies
Dough: 1 stick butter(softened) 3 oz cream cheese (softened) 1 cup flour You need a mini muffin pan for this recipe. The recipe doesn't call for it but I usually lightly spray the pan with cooking spray before pressing the dough in to prevent any sticking. Mix butter and cream cheese. Gradually add flour and work into dough. Make exactly 24 mini balls of dough and press into mini-muffin pan. (i use the tart shaper from pampered chef to press the dough into the pan--you can use any tart shaper or use the back of a smalls spoon to shape the dough in the muffin pan to looklike a little cup)
Filling: 3/4 cup brown sugar 3/4 cup chopped pecans 1 tsp vanilla 1 egg 1 tsp melted butter
Mix all ingredients together. Drop by teaspoonful into dough. (Don't overfill!) Bake at 250 degrees for 30 minutes until golden brown. Remove from pan as soon as you take them out of the oven. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.
These are so yummy!!! Taste like mini pecan pies!! (You can substitute walnuts for the pecans)
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Posted 11/4/05 12:15 PM |
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jmf423
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Meringue Cookies
2 egg whites 1/8 tsp salt 1/8 tsp cream of tarter 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 tsp vanilla 2 1/4 cup chocolate chips (in place of chocloate chips you can use broken up candy canes or you can mix together the chips and nuts)
Heat oven to 250 degrees. Mix egg whites until foamy. Add salt and cream of tartar. Beat til soft peaks. Add sugar 1 tablespoon at a time. Beat until stiff peaks. Fold in chocolate chips. Drop 2 inches apart on ungreases cookie sheet. Bake for 40 minutes.
These are sooooo easy and my niece and nephew love them!!!
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Posted 11/4/05 12:20 PM |
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jmf423
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Snowballs
1 stick butter 3 tablespoons confectioner sugar 1 cup flour 1 cup chopped walnuts
Combine butter and sugar. Add flour and nuts. Refrigerate dough overnight.
Roll into little balls and bake at 325 degrees for 10-15 minutes until light brown. When almost cool (just very slightly warm or else the sugar will melt) roll in confectioners sugar.
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Posted 11/4/05 12:24 PM |
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jmf423
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Candy Cane Cookies
1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup shortening 1 cup confectioners sugar 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp red food coloring
Preheat oven to 375
Mix all ingredients thoroughly (minus the food coloring) Divide the mixture in half and color half of the dough red. Shape 1 tsp of white and 1 tsp of red dough into 4 inch ropes. Press dough side by side and twist. Curve the top of the rope to form candy cane shape. (complete 1 cookie at a time) If dough becomes too soft to work with refrigerate for a few minutes) Bake on ungreases cookie sheet for 9 minutes.
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Posted 11/4/05 12:28 PM |
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jmf423
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Butter Cookies (require a cookie press)
2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp cream of tartar 1/2 tso salt
Sift together above ingredients and set aside.
1 cup butter 1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla
Cream butter. Add sugar til fluffy. Blend in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in dry ingredients. Use Cookie press on ungreases cookie sheet. Bake at 400 for 8-10 minutes.
Optional: depending on the shapes in your cookie press you can add green food coloring for x-mas trees, red for poinsettas etc. I also use sprinkles, crystal suagr etc to decorate before baking. Be creative.
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Posted 11/4/05 12:33 PM |
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bklyngirl
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
all these sound so yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted 11/5/05 7:57 AM |
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jmf423
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
BUMP
any more holiday cookies??
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Posted 12/6/05 6:54 PM |
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mommy2Alex
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
I am attempting rainbow cookies this year
Rainbow Cookies
4 eggs 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 cup melted butter food color
FOR TOPPING 6 oz chocolate chips 1 tablespoon oil
FILLING Jam - apricot, strawberry and raspberry are all very good but you can experiment (I bought black cherry conserve with amaretto the other day, it's go-od!)
Beat eggs until fluffy. Add sugar, then flour, melted butter and extract. Mix well. Divide into 3 bowls. Add green food color to one, red to another and leave the third plain. Turn into pans and bake at 350 for 10 minutes or until light brown.
Let cool. Put first layer on wax paper and spread with jam, then put plain layer on top of that and spread with jam. Lastly put red layer on (I like to trim edges at this point so it's all even)
Melt chocolate chips and oil. Spread chocolate on top of cake and refrigerate or freeze until chocolate is hard. Flip and spread chocolate on other side and refrigerate/freeze. When both sides are hard, cut into small pieces. (Hint: I cut width-wise strips and then turn strip onto its side to cut into smaller pieces, this way you're cutting through the cookie more than the chocolate - the chocolate has a tendency to crack.)
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Posted 12/7/05 8:02 AM |
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btrflygrl
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
is that usuk2004s recipe? I heard hers are AMAZING
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Posted 12/7/05 9:25 AM |
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MsMa
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
Posted by jmf423
Candy Cane Cookies
1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup shortening 1 cup confectioners sugar 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp red food coloring
Preheat oven to 375
Mix all ingredients thoroughly (minus the food coloring) Divide the mixture in half and color half of the dough red. Shape 1 tsp of white and 1 tsp of red dough into 4 inch ropes. Press dough side by side and twist. Curve the top of the rope to form candy cane shape. (complete 1 cookie at a time) If dough becomes too soft to work with refrigerate for a few minutes) Bake on ungreases cookie sheet for 9 minutes.
My mom used to make these for me & my sister when we were little. She would spell our names out in candy cane cookies!
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Posted 12/7/05 9:42 AM |
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mommy2Alex
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
Posted by btrflygrl
is that usuk2004s recipe? I heard hers are AMAZING
Yes it is.
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Posted 12/7/05 12:43 PM |
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jmf423
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
I think I am finally going to try the rainbow cookies this year. I LOVE them!! What kind of pans do you bake them in? Like a jelly roll pan or something smaller? The recipe doesn't really say. TIA
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Posted 12/7/05 9:23 PM |
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mommy2Alex
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
Posted by jmf423
I think I am finally going to try the rainbow cookies this year. I LOVE them!! What kind of pans do you bake them in? Like a jelly roll pan or something smaller? The recipe doesn't really say. TIA
Other recipes I have seen call for a 13X9 pan so that is what I am going to use.
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Posted 12/9/05 4:19 PM |
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btrflygrl
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
I FM'ed Farah and she gave me these dimensions for the pans:
shallow baking pans 10 3/4" long x 7" wide x 1 1/2" deep
she also said you can use the disposable foil pans which I plan on getting
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Posted 12/9/05 8:24 PM |
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Marybeth222
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
Seven Layer Magic Cookie Bars
½ cup (1 stick) butter or margarine 1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs 1 (14 oz) can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (Not evaporated Milk) 1 cup (6 oz) Hershey’s Butterscotch Flavored Chips 1 cup (6 oz) Hershey’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips 1 1/3 cups Mounds Sweetened Coconut Flakes 1 cup chopped almonds
Preheat oven to 350 (325 for glass dish). In 13x9 in baking pan, melt butter in oven. Sprinkle crumbs over butter; pour Eagle Brand evenly on top of crumbs. Top with remaining ingredients in order listed; press down firmly with fork. Bake 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool. Chill if desired (TASTE BETTER CHILLED). Cut into bars.
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Posted 12/12/05 8:07 AM |
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jmf423
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
Thanks for the info on the pan!! :)
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Posted 12/12/05 11:40 PM |
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Elbee
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
Posted by btrflygrl
I FM'ed Farah and she gave me these dimensions for the pans:
shallow baking pans 10 3/4" long x 7" wide x 1 1/2" deep
she also said you can use the disposable foil pans which I plan on getting
I made these cookies last night (delicious!) ... word of advice ... be very careful when you spread out the batter and when you put it in the oven. Mine ended up uneven and I lost some good cookies for it. The disposable pans are so thin and the batter is such a thin layer, that it really needs to be even and carefully handled. Just my observation
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Posted 12/13/05 9:48 AM |
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dooodles
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
I'm going to attempt coconut macaroons tomorrow. If they turn out yummy - I'll post the recipe
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Posted 1/1/06 1:15 PM |
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Palebride
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
Posted by Marybeth222
Seven Layer Magic Cookie Bars
½ cup (1 stick) butter or margarine 1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs 1 (14 oz) can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (Not evaporated Milk) 1 cup (6 oz) Hershey’s Butterscotch Flavored Chips 1 cup (6 oz) Hershey’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips 1 1/3 cups Mounds Sweetened Coconut Flakes 1 cup chopped almonds
Preheat oven to 350 (325 for glass dish). In 13x9 in baking pan, melt butter in oven. Sprinkle crumbs over butter; pour Eagle Brand evenly on top of crumbs. Top with remaining ingredients in order listed; press down firmly with fork. Bake 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool. Chill if desired (TASTE BETTER CHILLED). Cut into bars.
i make these, but i put the condensed milk over the chips and then sprinkle chopped walnuts over them....yummy!!!!
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Posted 1/1/06 9:11 PM |
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jmf423
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
bump for new ideas this year!
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Posted 11/26/06 11:31 AM |
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jmf423
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
bump for MonkeyBride
Message edited 12/4/2006 1:10:07 PM.
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Posted 12/4/06 1:09 PM |
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MrsQ
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Re: Holiday Cookie Recipes
Triple-Chocolate Mini Cups Prep Time:1 hr 25 min Start to Finish:2 hr 25 min Makes:6 dozen cookies 3/4 cup butter or margarine 4 oz unsweetened baking chocolate 2 cups sugar 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour 1/2 cup baking cocoa 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 eggs 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips 6 dozen Betty Crocker® Candied Fruit whole candied cherries, pecan halves, chocolate chunks or Hershey®’s Kisses® milk chocolates
1. Heat oven to 350°F. Place mini paper baking cups in mini muffin pan cups OR use mini foil muffin cups if you don’t have mini muffin pans. 2. In 2-quart saucepan, melt butter and chocolate over low heat 6 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until smooth; cool 20 minutes. In large bowl, beat melted chocolate mixture, sugar, 1 cup of the flour, the cocoa, baking powder, salt and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed about 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally, until well blended. Stir in remaining 1/2 cup flour and the chocolate chips. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons into mini cups. 3. Bake 15 to 17 minutes or until edges are slightly firm (center will be slightly soft). Immediately top each with cherry, pecan half or chocolate, pressing slightly. Cool completely, about 1 hour. High Altitude (3500-6500 ft) Increase flour to 1 3/4 cups. Bake 14 to 16 minutes.
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