Eggnog Sandwich Cookies are a unique holiday treat. The nutmeg and ginger sugar topping, the soft cookie, the creamy filling -- all the eggnog flavors in your hand. The dough is soft and a little sticky, even after chilling. Just do the best you can to make round cookies. Flatten them with a drinking glass (patterned bottom optional) dipped in flour so they are even height all the way across. When baking, watch the time so cookies just begin to turn golden when you remove them from the oven. (Some of mine got a little too brown this time!) We really liked them plain, but the filling definitely lifts things up a notch. Wait until they are well cooled before assembling sandwiches. The yield is approximately 72 cookies which will make 36 sandwiches. These are better eaten within a ... [Read More]
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Butter Fluff Cookies
I liked this recipe for Butter Fluff Cookies because it includes butter and cream cheese and tastes like a rich,fluffy cloud. It is also quick and easy and you can vary it in so many ways. Like this: Variation 1 - 3: Rolled in red sanding sugar before baking, green and red sprinkles mixed into the dough before baking, rolled in tiny green candy balls before baking. Variation 4: Add mini Chocolate chips. (Variation 5 not pictured - Heath Toffee Bits) Variation 6: Chopped walnuts (pecans, almonds also good!) Why did I try variations? Because when I first tasted the mixed cookie dough, I thought it needed pizazz. So I pizazzed. And when I was finished, guess what was my favorite? The plain fluffy cloud. Seconded quite closely by the chopped walnut -- cuz I like ... [Read More]
Buttery Brownie Bark
For a brownie lover, brownie bark seemed a no brainer. Who wouldn’t go for that rich chocolate brownie taste in a different form? Especially with toffee on one pan full and slivered almonds on the other. Turns out Bytes was not a fan. He had his mouth set for the rich chocolate flavor, but also for the fudgy texture. What he got was crisp and crunchy. He felt cheated. I didn’t care because I got chocolate and crunch, both of which are high on my list. Wheels will eat anything that looks good so both the toffee topped bites and the ones with almond slivers disappeared in short order and without discrimination. That was the first time I made brownie bark. The second time I made them, I found a better buttery recipe. I made one batch just a bit thicker when spreading the batter in ... [Read More]
No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Bytes decided he was in the mood for Grandma Call’s No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies. Deep chocolate flavor, textured with oats and coconut, those cookies were a favorite of his. And of Grandma’s thirteen other grandkids who wandered through her kitchen. She always had some goodie tucked away for their visits and this was a frequent flier! When the clink of the cookie jar lid was heard from the kitchen, it was usually a taller grandchild helping themselves and a cousin. Too close to dinnertime and Grandma would peer around the corner into the kitchen and warn the red handed cookie holder that mealtime was imminent. But if timed right, she would pretend she didn’t hear a thing and the pilferer was home free. For one of her birthdays, the family compiled a book of Grandma’s ... [Read More]
Elvis Cookies
A special cookie in honor of the King. Elvis Presley was famous for liking peanut butter and ‘nanners. Probably chocolate chip cookies, too -- because who doesn’t like chocolate chip cookies??? But I’m not so sure about bacon and pretzels. He may have liked them. Or not. Maybe as a snack and a part of breakfast, respectively. The record seems to be quiet on that one. Still someone thought they ought to be part of the Elvis Cookie. So there you are. He was famous for a few other things too. Upsetting the older generation for one thing. So I hear. But then the older generation is always getting upset about something. "Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess." Elvis Presley in ... [Read More]
Chocolate Peppermint Grahams – No Bake Treat
I am always confused by graham cracker measurements. Different brands package their crackers differently. What this recipe refers to are the crackers packaged in little 8 cracker squares – that are actually square. Other brands have rectangular crackers and people call them squares. But there IS a difference! Rectangles have two long sides and squares have sides the same length. Ask the little school person in your life! Those rectangles contain TWO squares each. To break crackers, grasp each cracker along the perforation firmly with all four fingers on the bottom and the base of the thumb and the thumb itself on top. Snaps cleanly. The easiest way to crush peppermint candies. No hammer handy? Use something unbreakable with a bit of weight. You CAN dip the entire cracker ... [Read More]
