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Cookie Recipes
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Everyone is posting about baking lately. I think I mentioned in another post that I love to cook but I almost never bake. I would like to, though!
What are your favorite cookie (or holiday treat) recipes?
What are your favorite cookie (or holiday treat) recipes?
Re: Cookie Recipes
my aunt makes this vanilla pretzel bark that I love love love!! I myself cannot bake at all so this is a great holiday recipe for me.
1# of pretzels, small ones, like twists or sometimes this year you can find little Christmas Tree ones.
1# of peanuts, no skins, salted
12 oz. Almond Bark Vanilla
Melt almond bark in microwave, don't overheat it will burn and you cannot mix after that. I do one minute, stir to see the consistency. Then I do 30 seconds next and check again. If needed try another 30 seconds or less. Burning ruins it so be careful. It all depends on your microwave, but that works on mine.
Mix all in large bowl till all coated. Sometimes I mix in Christmas M&M's for more color and fun.
Place wax paper on a cookie sheet and place mixture on it until it dries. Then you just break apart and bag it up.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
The Rowdy Roberts
Bourbon sea salt caramels
http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/bourbon-sea-salt-caramels
English toffee
http://www.preventionrd.com/2011/12/english-toffee/
Kolacky (traditionally we use the Solo cans of filling - apricot, poppyseed, prune, raspberry)
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/cream-cheese-kolacky/
Poppyseed cake (looks like the first link when done, but our recipe follows)
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/old-world-poppy-seed-roll/
Dough:
3 cups milk, 105-115 degrees
approx. 11 cups flour, sifted
2 spoons of sugar
2 spoons of flour
3 packages of rapid rise dry yeast
1 cup sugar
3 spoons oil
1 stick softened butter
1 stick softened margarine
2 envelopes vanilla sugar (can substitute with vanilla)
4 eggs
Poppyseed filling:
1/2 stick butter softened
4 cans Solo brand poppyseed
1 egg
dash of almond extract
Crumb topping:
Approx. 2 spoons flour and sugar
Butter
1 egg, beaten
Instructions:
Add 2 spoons of sugar and 2 spoons of flour along with yeast to the milk.
Cover and let stand for about 10 minutes.
Add 1 cup sugar, oil, softened butter and margarine, and vanilla sugar to the milk mixture.
Add 4 eggs.
Mix.
Slowly add in flour and mix until combined.
Put in bowl, cover and let rise in a warm place for 1-2 hours.
While dough is rising, make poppyseed filling.
Combine all filling ingredients and mix.
Once dough has risen, punch down.
Divide dough into 3 parts roll each out to about 1/4 inch thick.
Spread poppyseed mixture over each dough.
Roll dough into log.
Line 13 x 9 in pan with foil and separate down the middle with foil so 2 loaves will fit into each 13 x 9 inch pan.
Cover and let rise.
While the rolls are rising, make the crumb topping.
Combine flour and sugar.
Cut in enough butter to make moist crumbs.
Brush top of loaves with beaten egg.
Sprinkle crumb mixture on top.
Bake at 340/350 for 50/55 minutes
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The sugar cookies recipe is off all recipes.com and it is called the best sugar cookies recipe ever and it has crazy good reviews...and for good reason! It makes a lot, the cookies keep their shape and they even taste good!
I found the nutmeg buttermilk cookies on pinterest. My mom loves them so I will definitely be making them again.
Cheesecake bites are from my taste of home cookbook and I couldn't find a recipe online that was like this one.
Kwik cookies and PB balls are family recipespassed through the generations.
If you are interested in any of these recipes let me know and I will go dig them out...I have them all written down together!
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- Chocolate Chips (recipe on Nestle Toll House bag except I bake at 350 and add an extra 1/4 cup of flour)
- M&M (same recipe as above just use M&Ms instead of choc chips)
- Cream Wafers (from The Cooky Book)
- Chocolate Nut Bars (Taste of Home recipe here)
- Peanut Butter Blossoms (from The New Baking Book)
- Thumbprints (from The Cooky Book)
- Snickerdoodles (from The Cooky Book)
- Mocha Truffles (Taste of Home recipe here)
- Crisp Butter Cookies (Taste of Home recipe here)
I still have to make.....
- Chocolate Crinkles (AllRecipes.com recipe here)
- Chocolate Fudge Tarts (from The Cooky Book)
- Pinwheels (my MILs recipe)
- Holly Cookies (my mom gave me this recipe...but it's basically this one)
- Oreo Balls (Food.com recipe here)
- Peppermint Crunch Bark (Pampered Chef recipe here)
Also...if you like to bake cookies, I'd TOTALLY recommend The Cooky Book. It's from 1963 and has some great recipes in it. Here's a link to the book on Amazon.
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I love ALL the cookies, but this is my absolute favorite recipe:
http://www.bhg.com/recipe/cookies/peanut-butter-munchies/
They're labor and time-intensive, but still easy, and so worth it. Yum!
Our Little Raspberry-Born 3/27/12
We Said I Do 09/06/09
@wiggyslilsis - would you mind posting the recipes for the cheesecake bites and PB balls?? Also, what is a Kwik cookie?
Thank you
PB balls recipe is
1 stick melted butter
1cup PPeanut butter and
1 (16oz) box of powdered sugar.
Mix well usually with your hands works best but it is super messy. Then refrigerate for an hour. Then take out and form into small balls.
Melt a bag of chocolate chips and a little bit of paraffin wax (like maybe a TB)
Dip the balls in chocolate and put on wax paper to harden.
I will look up the cheesecake bites in the morning...I just have the PB balls memorized
Our Little Raspberry-Born 3/27/12
We Said I Do 09/06/09
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* After 22 months and 2 failed IUIs, we finally got our BFP *
DS delivered naturally at 41w6d on 4/18/14
Crust
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)
Cheesecake
2 pkg (8oz each) cream cheese, softened
1/2 C sugar
1/4 C sour cream
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 tsp. Vanilla extract
Chocolate
1 bag chocolate chips
1TB paraffin wax
1) line a 9*9 sq baking pan w/foil and greasethe foil. Combine the cracker crumbs, nuts and melted butter. Press into pan and set aside.
2) in a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and sour cream until smooth. Add eggs, beat on low until just combined. Stir in vanilla and pour over crust.
3) bake at 325 for 35-40 min or until center is almost set. Cool on wire rack. Refrigerste until chilled and freeze overnight.
4) Take out of freezer and take out of pan. Peel tin foil off and cut 7*7 for 49 squares.
5) Melt chocolate chips and paraffin wax. Dip squares and place on wax paper.
Mine didn't work out this year because I ran out of Chocolate so I tried white chocolate which did not coat them well at all.
Also, I use parafin wax because it makes the chocolate shiny and harden well. I couldn't find any this year so I used Crisco which made it thin enough to dip in but they didn't harden well and they melt in your hands.
Our Little Raspberry-Born 3/27/12
We Said I Do 09/06/09
Our Little Raspberry-Born 3/27/12
We Said I Do 09/06/09