Gifts from the Heart
Grandma's sugar cookies
cream together:
1/2 cup butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
add:
4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp.baking soda
1 cup sour cream
bake 12 minutes at 350 degrees, then icing with cream cheese icing when cool. I like too decorate these cookies so they look like christmas wreaths, with green icing, and then make a bow with red icing. These cookies are my favorite very soft, fat and yummy. You have just got to try these....
Candy cane cookies
1/2 cup shortning
1/2 cup butter
1 cup powered sugar
1 egg 1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. red food coloring
1/3 cup crushed candy cane
1/3 cup sugar
cream shortning and butter in a large mixing bowl untill fluffy; add next 6 ingredients and mix well. Divide dough in half, add food coloring to one portion, on floured surface, roll each section of dough out to form ropes, twist to make candy canes. bake on ungreased cookie heets at 375 dregree's for 9 minutes. Mix sugar and candy, and immediately sprinkle on cookie. makes 4 dozen.
Christmas Tree's
1 box of sugar cones
batch of icing
frost the tree's so they look fluffy, this will take a lot of icing..decorate the tree's with red hot candies and popcorn.
Icing
1 cup shortning
2 pound bag of powered sugar
1 tsp. of vanilla
1/4 cup milk
Mix sugar with shortning a little at at time with milk. Then add your green food coloring for tree's.. This is a really cute idea for a treat for school.. also for gingerbread houses.
Buckeyes
1 18 oz. jar peanut butter
1 stick butter
1 lb.confiections sugar
1 tbs. vanilla
1 12 oz. package of semi sweet chocalate chips
1/2 square parifin
cream butter and peanut butter , add vanilla- blend in sugar make into ball's-melt chocalte chips and parifin over double broiler. Then use toothpick to dip ball's into chocalate. lay on top of wax paper. makes about 100 buckeyes.
Hard tac
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup light corn syrup
3/4 cup water
1 dram of flavoring
powered sugar
food coloring
mix first three ingredients in a large saucepan. stir over medium heat untill sugar dissolves. boil, without stirring, untill temperature reaches 310 degress's or untill forms hard brittle threads in cold water. remove from heat, after stops boiling stir in flavoring and coloring. pour into lightly greasesd cookie sheets, cool then break into pieces , sprinkle with powered sugar.
Snow Balls
1/2 cup powered sugar
1 cup butter, softened
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
1 cup chopped pecans
1/4 tsp. salt
beat sugar, butter, vanilla untill light and fluffy. add flour, pecans and salt.shape into 1 inch balls. bake at 325 degrees for 15-20 minutes. cool slightly, then roll in powered sugar, cool completly: roll again in powered sugar. makes 5 dozen cookies.
Cutout Cookies
1 cup shorting
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
approx. 5 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
cream shorting and sugar together, add vanilla, then eggs and beat untill fluffy, add dry ingredients little at a time with milk. chill dough, cut into shapes and decorate. bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
Turtles
1 large bag of caramels
1 12 oz. package pecan pieces
1 12 oz. milk chocalate candy bar
1 square paraffin
melt caramels with 2 tsps. water add pecans mixing well, drop by tsp. onto waxed paper: col, melt chocalate with paraffin over low heat, dip caramels into chocalate with toothpicks, cool on waxed paper. store in airtight container.
Wendy's Chocolate Chip cookies
3/4 cup butter flavor shortning
1 1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbs. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
1 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1 cup ch. chips
Mix together...bake at 375 degrees on lightly greased pan. drop by heaping teaspoons. now the secert to this wonderful cookie is to underbake them...bake for only 8 minutes!!! yummy....
These are just some of my favorite
recipies I like to make at
christmas time. I hope you enjoy
them as much as our family
does.
Be careful not to overwork your dough. Avoid rolling the dough more than twice. The result could be tough cookies. Refrigerating your dough before rolling will also make your cookies more tender.
Remember to line your measuring cup with flour before measuring out the molasses for your next cookie recipe. This allows the molasses to pour out easily and clean-up is a breeze.
When baking, measure out all ingredients first, then mix together.
Preheat oven for at least 15 minutes before baking cookies.
Use heavy-gauge, flat, shiny aluminum baking sheets. Pans with sides deflect heat and make it harder to remove cookies; dark sheets absorb heat and can overbrown cookies.
If you find cookies are browning unevenly, rotate sheet from front to back halfway through cooking. If you're cooking more than one sheet at a time, rotate sheets from top to bottom halfway through.
Finally the secert to a perfect cookie....underbake it........
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