Favorite Cookie recipes

[BonBon]

'Tis the season for baking, at least in my house. One of my favorite cookies is the Infamous Lime Bastards, which can be found below, so I won't repost that. (I've never actually made them, just enjoyed them in a cookie exchange, so I can't attest to how heinous they are to make.)

I LOVE these, as do my kids. I cut the espresso powder down to 1.5 T in the recipe and only make half of the sugar/espresso coating and that still leaves extra. Milk Chocolate Espresso Cookies : http://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/rec...cookies/10321/

[PrincessFiona]

Watching this thread ...

[Auspicious]

Doing pfeffernusse from this recipe this year

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/15518...rnusse-cookies

though there are a million recipes out there.

And these Candy Cane Sugar Cookies

http://www.wearenotmartha.com/2010/1...sugar-cookies/




Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[SuzySunshine]

These are the ones I sent this year - the 3rd I've made for several years.

http://glutenfreehomemaker.com/no-fail-fudge-free/

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2...-cane-cookies/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/rec...cookies/10391/

All very good and very easy.

This is my grandmother's pepper nuts recipe - its a LOT of work so I usually only make them every other year, I might make a half batch this year. You have to have another adult around to help you stir the dough gets that stiff.

4 Sticks Butter8 Cups Sugar
2 Cups Buttermilk

Combine the above in saucepan and bring to boil to soft ball stage, 240 degrees

Grind the following and add to the above:

2 Cups Pecans
1 Pound Candied Fruit Mix

Add:
1 Teaspoon Anise Seed - ground
1 Teaspoon Cardomen
1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
1 Teaspoon Nutmeg
1 Teaspoon Cloves - scant

Add:
2 Teaspoons soda dissolved in 1/2 Cup vinegar.
Stir in 3 Cups flour and allow dough to cool, about one hour

Add:
6 eggs - beaten

Add enough more flour to make dough stiff. Roll dough the size of a fat pencil, cut with knife into 1/4 inch pieces.
Place on cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for 8 - 10 minutes

[GreyhoundsRUs]

Doing pfeffernusse from this recipe this year

I did pfeffernusse three years ago (I love them), but something about the smell of the ingredients in the mixing bowl made my head spin :/


Wife of a PGY-4 Orthopod

[MrsK]

These are different in that they are really spicy and they're addictive. Even my 4yo asks me to make them.

Sugar & Spice Cookies

2 boxes (abt 1lb 5oz each) Cinnamon Swirl Quick Bread/Muffin/Coffee Cake mix
6 tsp ground Ginger
1 and 1/2 tsp ground Black Pepper
1 tsp ground Cloves
1 cup butter-flavored shortening
2 eggs, slightly beaten

1. Reserve 1/2 cup of the swirl mixture from the cake mix, set aside. Prepare cookie sheets with parchment.

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, remaining swirl mixture, ginger, black pepper, and cloves; mix well. With a pastry blender, cut in shorting until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add eggs; mix well.

3. Shape mixture into 1"-1.25" balls; lightly roll in reserved swirl mixture. Place 2 inches apart on parchment lined cookie sheets.

4. Bake at 350*F for 14 minutes or until edges of the cookies are set. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets.

5 dozen cookies.

[niener]

Here are the three I did this year:

Dark Chocolate, Almond & Orange Lace Cookies (Trader Joe’s Lacey Cookies)
http://myjerusalemkitchen.wordpress....s-florentines/
*these took quite a bit of time and counter space to coat each one in chocolate and lay them out to dry but they're super yummy*

Cherry Surprise Crinkles
http://www.bhg.com/recipe/cherry-surprise-crinkles/
*I used the Hershey's cherry cordial kisses for this and the gooey centers did run out of the cookie a bit in the oven but I made sure to pull them off the the cookie sheet before they dried and got stuck, it wasn't a big problem*

Giant Ginger Cookies
http://www.bhg.com/recipe/desserts/g...inger-cookies/
*If I'd had some candied ginger on hand I would have chopped it up and added it to the batter to make them even better, though they are pretty dang good on their own. I'd like to try these again with butter instead of shortening because shortening kind of freaks me out as an ingredient, though I did use it this time being my first attempt at making this cookie because I didn't want to screw with the intended flavor and texture (both of which were really good)*

[DrBandMe]

Here are the recipes of the cookies I made this year:

Chocolate Crinkles

Pecan Pie Cookies

Almond Crescents - recipe by DrBtobe's great grandma
2 cubes Butter (a cube is a stick)
3 1/2 Tbsp Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 1/2 cups Blanched, ground almonds
1 1/2 cups Flour

Place the dough in the refrigerator after mixing for 1 hour. Roll and shape into crescents. Roll crescents in powdered sugar. Bake cookies 10-15 minutes in a 325 degree oven.

Pizzelles - recipe by my Namaw
6 Eggs
1 cup Oil
1 1/2 cups Sugar

Mix these ingredients together.

Add:
4 cups Flour
1/8 tsp Salt
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 small bottle anise extract

Spoon 1 tsp of dough into center of each well. Close lid and let cook approximately 1 min. Cool on rack. Store in air-tight container.

(I used 2 Tbsp vanilla and 2 Tbsp anise for my cookies because anise can be a strong flavor for some people so I wanted to make them milder. I prefer the strong anise flavoring. You can also use all vanilla or almond extract as well. You can also form pizzelles into cone shapes much like you would a waffle cone. Just form the pizzelle into the shape you want as soon as you remove it from the iron.)

[alotofyarn]

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies AKA Hillary Clinton Cookies

Hubby once said he'd marry me if I kept making these for him.

1 1/2 c flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 c shortening
1 c light brown sugar
1/2 c sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 c old-fashioned rolled oats
12 oz chocolate chips (I prefer milk chocolate chunks)


1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease baking sheets.
2. Beat together shortening, sugars, and vanilla in large bowl.
3. Add eggs, beating until light and fluffy.
4. Gradually beat in salt, baking soda, flour, (you're supposed to mix these together first, then add them in - I never do) then rolled oats.
5. Stir in chocolate chips.
6. Drop batter by well-rounded teaspoonfuls onto baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until golden.