The GUILD 12-9-2001 COOKIE RECIPE EXCHANGE DAY!!!!

[geege]

Not cookies but home made brownies........

1 stick of light butter...or regular
2 oz of bakers unsweetend dark chocolate
2/3 cup of unsweetend Dutch coco powder
1 and 1/2 cup of sugar
3 egg whites
1 egg
pinoli nuts (pine nuts) slighty toasted about 1/2 cup

Pre-heat oven to 325... Melt butter and unsweetend chocolate on medium heat, add coco powder and sugar.....stir well and remove from heat (batter will be tough and gooey..add pine nuts....Slightly beat 3 egg whites and 1 egg....gradually add batter to eggs and mix...Pour in a greased pan and bake for 1/2 hour...Do not overbake......Yum

[pubmom]

Gram's Cutouts

1/2 Cup Unsalted butter
1 Cup sugar
Cream until fluffy.

Add: 2 well beaten eggs
1 T. milk

Add gradually:
2 1/2 Cups sifted unbleached flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Mix thoroughly.

Divide dough in half, wrap in wax paper, chill at least an hour. Roll out dough 1/4 inch thick. Cut into desired shapes. Bake at 375 until light brown, about 8 minutes.

Paint for the cookies:
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon water
1 teaspoon vanilla
food color

Beat all ingredients together with a fork or small whisk. Paint the cookies with a pastry brush, add candy decors and bake for one minute.

The decors can also be added before baking and the paint omitted, but my gram always painted her cookies.

Hershey Kiss Cookies
These are good ones to do with children. While you're mixing the dough, they can unwrap the kisses.

Sift together:
1 3/4 Cups unbleached flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

In a larger separate bowl, combine 1/2 Cup Unsalted butter
1/2 Cup peanut butter
Beat until light.

Gradually add 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup of white sugar
Add 1 egg and 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
Beat until light and fluffy.

Gradually add the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Roll into balls the size of a walnut. Roll them in a bowl of sugar to coat the outside.

Bake at 375 for 8 minutes, top with a hershey kiss, then return to the oven for one minute. Carefully remove them from the cookie sheet to a cooling rack.

[LibertyThug]

Does anyone have directions on how to make Christmas tree ornament cookies?
I am making them for my class and I want them to be the kind of ornaments that will last forever (I think there is a flour, salt, and water concoction).
Any help would be appreciated.

[daisyscarlett]

Seven Layer Cookies:

Ingredients:
1 stick of BUTTER
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 cup coconut
Small package of chocolate chips
Small package of butterscotch chips
1 can EAGLE Brand sweetened condensed milk
1.5 cups of nuts.

Directions:
1. Melt butter in 9x13 inch pan
2. Sprinkle ingredients in order listed.
3. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
4. Let cool and slice in squares. If desired, you can roll cooled, sliced squares in graham cracker crumbs.

[daisyscarlett]

You can't have a cookie plate without fudge on it!!I remember the old fashioned kind my Mom used to make and my brothers and I could never quite do on our own. Always came out too soft. But that was okay. It was still yummy. We had no candy thermometer and were supposed to cook it till a little hard ball formed in the water. Mother always said we did not beat our fudge long enough.

Well this is not a recipe for that "hard" kind of fudge but an easier version. Not as good, but still CHOCOLATE, and almost never-fail:

RED CROSS FUDGE

4.5 cups sugar
1/2 pound of butter
1 large can of evaporated milk
2 cups mini-marshmallows
1 package of choc. chips (12 ounce)
2 cups chopped nuts

DIRECTIONS:
1. Mix together sugar, butter and milk in saucepan.
2. Bring to a rolling boil and cook for 11 minutes, stirring constantly.
3. Add marshmallows, choc. chips and nuts.
4. Mix well and pour into buttered pan.
MAKES FIVE LBS.

[gopheraj]

Snickerdoodles were our son's favorite cookie. He made them in home ec class. (he was no dummy - he knew where the girls were - no shop class for him)LOL It's been 8 years since he was killed and I still make them from his hand copied recipe every Christmas.

[pubmom]

Mocha Cinnamon Fingers

2 teaspoons instant coffee crystals
1/2 teaspoon water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup Butter or margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg yolk
1 6-ounce bag semi-sweet chocolate pieces
1 cup finely chopped walnuts or pecans

In a small bowl, stir together coffee crystals, water and vanilla till coffee crystals are dissolved. In a medium bowl, stir together flour and cinnamon.

In a large mixer bowl beat butter or margarine till softened. Add sugar and brown sugar and beat until fluffy. Add egg yolk and coffee mixture and beat well. Gradually add flour mixture, beating till well mixed. Press evenly into an ungreased 15x10x1-inch baking pan.

Bake in a 350 oven for 15-18 minutes or till done. Immediately sprinkle chocolate pieces over top. Let stand till chocolate is softened, then spread evenly. Sprinkle with nuts. Cuts into bars while warm. Cool. Makes 48.

Pumpkin-Chocolate Chip Bars

2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
4 beaten eggs
1 16-ounce can pumpkin
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup oil
1 6-ounce package semi-sweet chocolate pieces
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Stir together flour, baking powder, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, baking soda and salt. In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, pumpkin, 1 1/2 Cups sugar, and oil. Add flour mixture and mix just till moistened. Stir in chocolate pieces.

Spread in an ungreased 15x10x1-inch baking pan. Stir together 3 tablespoons sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and sprinkle evenly over batter. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes or till done. Cool. Cut into bars. Makes 36.

[gopheraj]

Buttermilk Pralines 2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1 cup buttermilk
2 tablespoons margarine
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 heaping cups pecan halves
In heavy 4 1/2- to 5-quart Dutch oven, mix sugar, soda, corn syrup and buttermilk. Cook, stirring occasionally, over medium heat for 10 to 15 minutes, until candy thermometer registers soft-ball stage. (A cup of ice water can be used to test if at soft-ball stage. With a spoon, drop a dime-size blob into the cold water. If it will roll into a soft ball with your finger, it is ready.) Remove from heat and stir in margarine, vanilla, cinnamon and pecans. Stir until mixture starts to set up. Quickly drop spoonfuls onto foil paper that has been sprinkled heavily with salt. Makes 3 dozen.

[MadelineZapeezda]

SB, do the cookies have to be dropped and spread on tin foil? I have really good baking pans and wondered if I can do this directly on the pan?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I really wish that we could send home baked food to the Troops, but alas, we can't. Imagine the huge crate of cookies we could have sent over with our wonderful recipes!

[daisyscarlett]

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Thanks for sharing your Mom's favorite cookie recipe. Wow! I'll bet that cookbook is filled with treasures. I just love those old fund raising books that our Mom's and Grandma's compiled.(Who knows perhaps one day one of our descendants will come upon this thread and marvel at the "old fashioned" recipes).

I see you survived your parties yesterday. Did you really throw a party in the afternoon and attend one in the evening? I am impressed! Any shrimp left or did the Canteen get all the leftovers? And if they did, what are we, chopped liver?

[MadelineZapeezda]

Here's what you were looking for:

Salt Dough Ornaments

1 cup water
1 cup salt
2-1/2 cups flour
1. Combine salt and 2 cups of flour. Mix in water, and work in additional flour if needed to make a smooth and workable dough.
2. Roll out 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Dip cookie cutters in flour and then press into dough. Remove excess dough and put shapes onto ungreased cookie sheet. If making ornaments, use a toothpick to make holes for string to pass through.
3. Bake at 250 degrees for 30 minutes on each side, more for really thick items, less for thin items. Can also be dried at room temperature, time varies according to the thickness of the project- overnight-2 days is normal.
4. Paint and seal with a shellac or other acrylic-type sealer. To keep the salt dough well for years, do not store in a damp place. Store in boxes or well-sealed cookie tins on a bed of uncooked rice to absorb any moisture.

[daisyscarlett]

Still waiting for your repost of the fruit cake cookies and that golden loaf bread. My printer was out of ink so I did not print out the thread from the other day. I decided to wait and print out all the recipes together. If you are not going to post both those recipes, please give me the days you originally posted them, if you remember. Thanks a bunch.

[Aliska]

Thanks for the fudge recipe using marshmallows. I'll try that one.

I usually make the one on the marshmallow creme jar. It NEVER fails and is very creamy. I've played with the basic recipe for a couple of years.

CARAMEL FUDGE: Here's something you might like to try. Use the recipe on the back of any small marshmallow creme jar. For the 3 cups sugar use 1/2 white and 1/2 dark brown. Then use 1 stick real butter and 1/2 stick margarine. Then use Hershey's white chocolate chips. I folded in some coconut and it was good but I think I like it plain or with nuts better.

Next time I'm going to flavor it with 1 or 2 tsp maple flavoring and see how I like it.

It also works to make an all white "opera" fudge. You can stir in cut up cherries or dried apricots at the end. I've had lots of fun varying the marshmallow creme recipe.

[geege]

Ooooooooooops forgot to mention....regarding my brownies...post #81......1 and 1/2 cup of flour:^) Add that to the chocolate batter before mixing it with the eggs.......

[MadelineZapeezda]

Looking up my Baba's (grandma) recipe. I'll get back to you. Are you talking about the ones that are rolled and filled with a nut mixture or fruit? My daughter has a choral concert now that I need to attend, but I'll check later.

[Aliska]

Re my last post. For all-white fudge, use all white sugar and white chocolate chips - or you can chop up white squares used for almond bark. I think the chips are better quality chocolate. PEPPERMINT BARK: Also you can crush peppermint candy and melt that white chocolate and stir it in, pour in a greased pan. It tastes just like the kind you get at the candy stores.

[lodwick]

Good Tunes While Baking

Courtesy FReeper Catpuppy

[pubmom]

Not yet, but there is a bag of them sitting in my pantry. My teenage son that loves cinnamon talked me into buying them. I have no idea what I'm going to make with them, maybe the coffeecake recipe that's on the bag. When I try them, I'll let you know if they're any good or not.