Carol's Chocolate Drop Cookies
"...my favorite cookie recipe of my mom's from when I was a kid."-- Carol
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 1-ounce squares unsweetened chocolate
1 3/4 cups sifted enriched flour
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1-teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
Cream butter, shortening; add sugar gradually. Beat well. Beat in egg. Melt chocolate over hot water; stir into creamed mixture.
Sift dry ingredients; add to chocolate mixture alternately with milk. Mix well. Stir in vanilla. Add nuts.
Using a teaspoon, drop 2 inches apart onto un-greased baking sheet. Bake in hot oven (400*) 8-10 minutes. Makes 3 dozen.
While cookies cool, stir up frosting: Add top milk or cream to 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar to make an easy spreading frosting. Add a dash of salt, 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
Drop 1 teaspoon frosting onto center of each cookie: swirl with your spatula. Top each with a walnut or pecan.
Anne's Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
"Happy Holidays!!"-- Anne
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
Mix all ingredients together. Roll into 1 inch balls and put on cookie
sheets. Make cross marks with a fork. Bake at 350 degrees for 7-9 minutes
or until golden brown around the edges.
Meg's No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
"Here is my favorite holiday cookie recipe (they are super easy to make, and very, very tasty)."-- Meg
1 stick margarine
1/2 cup milk
2 cups sugar
1 cup chocolate chips
3-4 tablespoons peanut butter, optional
3 cups oatmeal
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Place chocolate chips, peanut butter (if used), oatmeal, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Combine the margarine, milk, and sugar in a saucepan; bring to a rolling boil. Boil for 1 minute. Combine the hot mixture with the oatmeal mixture; stir well. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper.
Cookies by Janet
Go to the grocery store and buy some already made or buy the Pillsbury dough and eat that
Amber's Chocolate Bonbons
1 (12oz) bag of chocolate chips
1/2 stick of butter
1 (14oz) can condensed milk
2 cups of flour
1 tsp vanilla
about 60 miniture chocolate candies (hershey kisses, reese cups, snickers, etc)
Melt chocolate chips and butter in a saucepan over low heat. After melted, stir in condensed milk. Combine chocolate mixture with flour and vanilla and mix well. Shape 1 tbsp of dough around each unwrapped candy and place 1 in apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes. Cookies will appear wet, but will firm as they cool.
Janet & Alex's Medallions
"My Grandfather used to make these for me every Christmas. The recipe came from Janet's Grandmother."-- Alex
3/4 lb. butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Mix all ingredients together. Refrigerate until firm. Roll out slightly thicker than pie crust. Cut in circles. Bake on a greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees, until slightly brown.
Cool cookies.
Spread cool vanilla pudding pie filling on top of one cookie. Place a second cookie on top (makes a cookie sandwich).
Top with confectioner sugar icing. A dollop of currant jelly is optional.
Refrigerate cookies. (I think they are best the second day after the pudding has soaked into the cookies.)
Jean's Super Easy Cookies
"I got it from my mother-in-law years ago. You can make a couple batches in a short time. They're usually a big hit."-- Jean
2 lbs. Candyquick (found in baking section)
1 cup peanuts (I use broken stick pretzels)
2 cups Special k
2 cups Corn Pops
1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
Break up Candyquick in big bowl and melt in microwave a minute at a time. Stir in ingredients. Spoon onto wax paper, let harden. You can use any cereal and nuts you want. It's the mixture of the sweet and salty that's important.
Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cookie Bar
"easy, delicious, melt in your mouth"
Line 9"x13" pan with foil.
Place single layer of graham crackers in bottom of pan.
In a sauce pan place:
3/4 c. butter
3/4 c. firmly packed brown sugar.
Bring to boil over medium heat. Boil for 3 mins.
Pour mixture over crackers.
Bake 350* for 5 mins.
Remove from oven.
Turn oven off.
Sprinkle chocolate chips over top.
Return to oven for 3 mins. (to soften chips - remember oven is off)
Remove from oven and spread chips evenly with spatula.
Sprinkle chocolate with favorite topping (finely chopped pecans, Christmas colored sprinkles, or nonpareils)
Refrigerate until chocolate is hard. Break apart crackers into bite size pieces. Store in 'frig.
