COOKING
Coconut Cookies
4 Tb. Butter
½ C. sugar
2 eggs
2 C. coconut
1 C. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. salt
Cream butter, eggs and sugar.
Slowly add flour, baking powder and salt.
Mix in coconut.
Bake at 375 for 12 minutes.
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Dirty Snowballs
¾ C. butter
¼ C. brown sugar
3-4 Tb. chocolate syrup
¼ C. milk
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 C. flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. baking soda
Confectioner’s sugar
(1 C. chopped nut, if desired)
Beat butter and brown sugar at medium speed until fluffy.
Add chocolate syrup, egg, vanilla, and milk and mix well.
Add remaining ingredients (except confectioner’s sugar)
And blend well.
Chill for 1 hour.
Roll into 1 inch balls and bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.
Keep dough in refrigerator between baking batches.
For best results it has to be cold when rolling into balls.
Sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar.
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Basic Cookie Recipe
2 ½ C. unsifted flour
1 tsp. baking powder.
Sift the two ingredients together.
¼ tsp. baking soda
1 ¼ C. sugar
½ C. butter or margarine
1 egg
½ C. milk
Mix well and add anything your heart desires. Maybe some chopped nuts? Raisins? Peanut butter, chocolate, butterscotch chips? Coconut? The little M & Ms? Sprinkle with little pieces of caramel? Have fun and make this recipe your own!
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Mollie’s Molasses Cookies
1 C. sugar
1 C. molasses
1 C. butter (softened)
1/3 C. water
2 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. soda
4 C. flour
Mix sugar, molasses, butter and water in a large mixing bowl.
Mix together ginger, cinnamon, soda and flour.
Add dry ingredients to the molasses mixture ¼ at a time.
Roll out and cut into 2” cookies.
Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 375 for about 12 minutes.
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Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies
1 ¼ C. all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. cinnamon
1 C. butter (softened)
¾ C. sugar
¾ c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3 C. quick oats (do not cook)
1 (12 oz.) package butterscotch morsels
In a medium mixing bowl combine; flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
In a second medium mixing bowl combine; butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
Gradually add the flour mixture (1/4 at a time) to the butter mixture and mix well.
Stir in the oats and the butterscotch morsels.
Drop by teaspoonfuls on to a cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 for 10 minutes.
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Peanut Butter Drop Cookies
½ C. peanut butter (plain or chunky)
½ C. sugar
1 egg
1 C. flour
2 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp. salt
½ C. milk
In a medium mixing bowl mix; peanut butter, sugar, and beaten egg.
Sift dry ingredients to the peanut butter mixture alternating with the milk.
Drop by the spoonfuls on to a greased baking sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until lightly browned.
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Old Fashioned Butter Cookies
1 C. butter
1 C. sugar
1 egg
2 ½ C. all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp. orange juice
1 tsp. vanilla
Cream; butter, sugar, and egg until fluffy.
Beat in; flour, baking powder, orange juice, and vanilla until smooth.
Chill 2 to 3 hours.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Roll out dough ½ of the batch at a time.
Keep the other ½ of the batch in the refrigerator.
Roll out the dough to ¼ inch thickness on a well floured board.
Cut out with cookie cutters and place on a cookie sheet.
Bake at 400 degrees for 8 minutes until just turning brown at the edges.
. Watch carefully because these burn easily.
Cool and decorate.
Decorating frosting
3 c. confectioner’s sugar
½ C. butter
1 to 2 tsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
Beat until fluffy.
Color with food coloring.
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Sadie’s Spritz Cookies
2 ½ C. all purpose flour
¼ tsp. salt
1 C. butter
1 ¼ C. confectioner’s sugar
2 egg yolks
½ tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Sift together; flour and salt and set aside.
Combine in a small bowl; butter and confectioner’s sugar and whip until fluffy.
To the butter mixture add: egg yolks, almond extract, and vanilla and mix well.
Add the flour mixture ¼ at a time. Mix well.
Using a cookie press, shape cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 for 10 minutes or until they just begin to brown at the edges.
Cool and decorate.
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Grandma Jennie’s Cookies for Christmas
½ C, sugar
3 c. Sifted all purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. powdered ginger
2 tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp powdered cloves
½ tsp. powdered nutmeg
½ lb. soft butter
½ C. honey
Sift together; sugar; flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
Work in the butter a little at a time with a pastry blender.
Add the honey and stir until blended.
Refrigerate for 2 hours or longer.
Roll out to ¼ inch thick on waxed paper.
Cut into gingerbread men and ladies.
Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes.
Cool and decorate.
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Orange Breadcrumb Macaroons
½ C. flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
2 eggs beaten
¼ C. butter, melted and cooled
2/3 C. sugar
2 tsp grated orange
1 tbsp orange juice
2 ¼ C. soft bread crumbs
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt.
Stir cooled butter into eggs.
Mix in sugar gradually.
Add orange rind and juice.
Add dry ingredients and bread crumbs.
Drop by teaspoons full on to greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes or until browned.
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Sour Cream Cookies
½ C. shortening
1C finely packed brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
½ C seedless raisins
2 C sifted flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp nutmeg
½ C sour cream
½ C chopped walnuts
Cream shortening and sugar.
Add the egg and raisins.
In a separate bowl sift flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and nutmeg.
Add alternating with sour cream to the raisin mixture.
Stir in the walnuts.
Drop by spoonfuls on to a greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 400 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes.
Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
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