I’m in need of Christmas cookie recipes and Christmas candy recipes. I have two cookie recipes that I make every year and am looking for something different this year.
Here’s my recipe for Soft Sugar Cookies with Raisens:
1/2 c. butter
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 c. sour cream
1 c. raisens
cinnamon & sugar mixture
Cream butter to consistency of mayonnaise. Add sugar gradually while continuing to cream. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla and beat until light and fluffy.
In a seperate bowl sift flour and mix salt, baking powder and baking soda together. Add a little of the dry mixture to the creamed mixture and then add a little of the sour cream to the creamed mixture and continue adding dry mix and then sour creme until all of it is added to the creamed mixture. (Hope that makes sense. I’ve been making these for years so I know what I mean but am not quite sure how to say it.)
Next, add the raisens and stir in by hand.
For 3" cookies, drop by the heaping teaspoon on a well greased cookie sheet. Dip a spatula in water and flaten the dough a little bit. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture. Bake at 400 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
Please share your recipes with me!
This is dead easy to make and with very little mess.
You need mini foil cupcake cups for this recipe (you can use paper cups, but the foil seem to be easier to work with)
Ingredients:
2-8oz packs of cream cheese
3/4 cup of sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 box vanilla wafers
cherry pie filling
Combine cream cheese, sugar, eggs and vanilla and mix thoroughly until smooth.
Place 1 wafer in the bottom of foil cup (the size of the cup should fit the wafer exactly). I found that they may fit better if the wafer is upside-down.
Spoon in the cheesecake mix on top of the wafer to about 1/4" from the top of the cup (about a tablespoon) and make sure it is spread out to cover the wafer.
Bake for 10 min at 350 degrees.
Top with pie filling (I do 1-2 cherries and a little sauce for each one). Don’t fill the entire top of the cheesecake, just a dab in the centre so it’s easy to peel the foil back to eat it.
This recipe uses the whole box of wafers and will yield 50-60 cheescake cups. They refrigerate fine.
Pre-heat oven to 400°F
Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla.
Add the salt and nuts, then work in the flour.
Shape dough a tablespoon at a time into round balls, and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 10-15 minutes until they are well set and just starting to brown.
Roll them in powdered sugar while they are still warm (I just toss them in a ziplock of the stuff and shake.) Let them cool, then roll them again. Makes 2-4 dozen, depending on your size.
This makes a lovely shortbread-like cookie that melts in your mouth. They’re great with milk!
Here’s our old family recipe for Persimmon cookies. In order to get persimmon pulp (rather than smooth-skinned orange rocks), you may need to freeze them overnight, then put them in the fridge to thaw (they go all pulpy when they thaw out).
Heat oven to 375. Prepare greased cookie sheet.
1 c sugar
1/2 c shortening
1 egg (well beaten)
2 c flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon, salt, and baking soda
1/4 tsp cloves
1 tsp baking powder
1 c persimmon pulp
1 c chopped nuts
1 c dates or raisins (optional)
Cream shortening & sugar.
Sift & measure dry ingredients.
Add eggs to sugar/shortening.
Add dry ingredients alternately with persimmon pulp.
Add nuts.
Drop by tsp on cookie sheet.
Bake 12-15 minutes.
4 hours and Zenster still hasn’t made an appearance? By God, this universe has just gone topsy turvy.
Rachelle, I find that any holiday recipe always works better with a little wassil. Remember to draw it out like the Bud guys “waaaaaaaaaasiiil!”
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 1/2 bag of semi-sweet chips
1 small bag of chopped nuts ( I like pecans)
1 tsp of vanilla
Melt the chips in the milk, add the nuts and vanilla, mix well and spread in a square pan. Put in the fridge for a couple of hours and then cut. It’s really rich and easy enough for the kids to make!
We also make holiday wreaths using the “Rice Crispy treat” recipe except we substitute Corn Flakes. We add chopped, dried cranberries and green food coloring and then shape them into mini wreaths. Very festive!
Re: …and here I came in ready to sing along with Abba…
(ahem)
…a man after midnight, won’t somebody help me chase these shadows awaaaaayy…
sorry, had to, stuck in my head
I was just off posting to my friend’s thread and got around to clicking on this one and golly gee if ain’t one of my favorite comedians, Enderw23!
All you have to do is click on the recipe index link in my sig and hit page one, recipe nineteen for some Swedish butter cookies. Page two, recipe thriteen is another cookie recipe as well. There’s probably a few more hidden in there, but I need to finish the index to be sure. ([Pa Kettle] I’ll get around to it one of these days Ma. [/Pa Kettle]). Fairy Chat Mom’s peach strusle pie looks pretty good as well.
Please allow me to extend an open invitation to crosspost any and all of these wonderful recipes to my Ultimate Recipe Thread. Any contributions are greatly appreciated. If you email me the post ID# I may use your recipe for a “recipe of the week” at the thread.
