Cherry Almond Chews topped with bright red cherries are festive chewy cookies. They are the perfect choice for a cookie exchange – pretty, chewy and won’t fall apart with handling. They also freeze well so you can make them ahead of time. Bonus! Resist the urge to make these cookies bigger than a teaspoonful. Keeping them small allows the cherry to be the star it deserves. Cutting the maraschino cherries in half is the most time consuming part of this recipe – put a whole cherry on top and solve that problem! However you choose, just relax and enjoy the whole process – these cookies are worth it! Cherry Almond Chews Print Prep time 20 mins Cook time 12 mins Total time 32 mins Topped by a bright red cherry, these chewy cookies are festive AND ... [Read More]
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Pineapple Walnut Cookies
Pineapple Walnut Cookies shout surprise! The pineapple is not a list topper when you are thinking of cookie ingredients. The bits of pineapple bake sweet and a little chewy, a tasty second surprise. Rated superb taste in all categories – hot, cooled for 45 minutes, next day, and two days later. (I have to hide the cookies for two days later category!) Mixing the dry ingredients before adding them to the other ingredients insures that they will be thoroughly distributed in the cookie dough. This is important for taste and to make sure that the leavening agents (baking powder and soda) are doing what they are supposed to do in each cookie evenly. I confess I cheat when I am in the midst of a marathon baking session. I add one leavening agent to the first cup of flour and sort of ... [Read More]
Fruitcake Cookies
Fruitcake Cookies studded with candied citrus rinds, maraschino cherries, nuts and a symphony of spices -- truly stellar!! I love fruitcake. I confess I feel lonely in this obsession sometimes – especially with the jokes-- but there must be other fruitcake lovers somewhere. (Aren’t there? Please??!) True, there are good recipes and bad recipes and some commercial fruitcakes are not worthy of the name. Still I’ll gladly sample and discard the bad in order to find and savor the good fruitcake! This is the good -- and in just the right portion! Fruitcake cookies go together quickly in the order given. Mix the spices with part of the flour and they will be evenly distributed in the cookie, with no hot spots of nutmeg or cinnamon. Mixing the fruitcake bits of candied citrus peel and ... [Read More]
Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies
A dozen great cookie recipes to make your holidays merry and bright! Please pin!!! 1. Fruitcake cookies 2. Minty Christmas Cookies 3. Pineapple Walnut Cookies 4. Red Velvet Cookies with white chocolate and walnuts 5. Toffee Crisps 6. Cherry Almond Chews 7. Maple Caramel Swirl Cookies 8. Crescent Mini chip Cookies 9. Butterscotch Pecan Softies - no bake 10. Peppermint Chocolate Thumbprints 11. Almond Coconut Crunch Cookies 12. Polka Dot Macaroons You might also want to check out these Christmas collections! Please pin! no bake and no stress treats in small batches. For when you want to have a variety of treats without a lot of leftovers. Chocolate Peppermint Grahams Grinch Kabobs Butterscotch Pecan Softies ... [Read More]
