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I have this sudden and unaccountable urge to engage in a baking marathon.
Would you? Could you, share your favorite cookie recipes?
Would you? Could you, share your favorite cookie recipes?
Thanks, kikazary. The maple pecan sound positively yummy. Gonna bake a batch first thing in the morning.
Icelandic Pepper Cookies have become a tradition in our house. (oddly enough, despite the name, pepper is the smallest ingredient and not even noticable. They're more clove-like than anything.)
Fluffy Whipped Shortbread
1 cup soft butter
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
Beat butter and icing sugar with a hand mixer for 2 minutes. Add flour and beat at high speed for 10 minutes.
Drop by spoonfuls on an un-greased cookie sheet and bake in a preheated 300 degree oven for approximately 20 -25 minutes or until edges are golden. These are absolutely melt in your mouth cookies and if you want to fancy them up place half a candied cherry in the middle or a chocolate chip.
Maple Pecan Shortbread
1 cup of butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 T maple syrup (I don't use the real stuff)
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups of flour
1 1/4 cups of finely chopped pecans
Cream butter, sugar, syrup, vanilla. Add flour mix till combined and fold in nuts. Shape into 1 1/2 inch round rolls and wrap in wax paper. Chill till firm or over night. Slice into 1/4 inch thick slices and place 2 inches apart on an un-greased cookie sheet. Bake at 325 for 14-16 minutes or until edges begin to brown. Makes about 6 dozen. *note these taste best if allowed to mellow for a day before eating.
I make several varieties of cookies for Christmas every year.
I do snickerdoodles, but instead or regular cinnamon sugar, I roll them in a gourmet "Burnt orange cinnamon sugar" I found. They're fantastic; my husband's work went through four dozen of them in about a minute and a half and regularly ask if I'll be making them again. You can find gourmet sugars at any baking store or spiffy grocery store; it's worth a look around. Because snickerdoodles are such a lovely basic cookie you can dress them up with just about anything--you could try vanilla sugar or powdered dark chocolate or any number of things.
I also make cherry almond cookies with Hershey's Ksses pressed into the top. Again it's like a basic snickerdoodle recipe but with a tsp or two of almost extract and chopped maraschino cherries.
I have a recipe for Buried Cherry cookies from the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook and they're fantastic.
And some oatie cookies, little ones, spread with Nutella and made into little sandwiches.
If any of those recipes interest you let me know and I'll post them. (Yeah, I could have done it now but I just got comfy.)
I'm curious if you made them, if you liked them or not. They are different. Our kids like them, but then our kids are weird. My nieces and nephews won't touch them.Shadow Ferret, I'm going to get around to making your spice cookies this weekend I hope. They sound great to me and I'm curious about both the pepper and the corn syrup. I will post back with my results.
Cool. So glad they were enjoyed.Ed’s Icelandic Pepper Cookies were a BIG hit with my neighbor. She ate a whole plateful yesterday when she stopped by for coffee.
I have this sudden and unaccountable urge to engage in a baking marathon.
Would you? Could you, share your favorite cookie recipes?
My Great Grandmother made the best holiday cookies, and then would gift them in a giant tin.
They were sugar cookies, similar anyhow, except formed like a chocolate kiss. And on the inside she'd place an Andes Mint. It would melt throughout and then melt in your mouth.
Deelish. I'm not sure if it's a known recipe, or something she did.
There you go! Hope you like it as much as I do...okay, not quite as much, that's just unhealthy =)
I'm curious if you made them, if you liked them or not. They are different. Our kids like them, but then our kids are weird. My nieces and nephews won't touch them.