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Dec 17, 2007

Quick and Easy Boiled Cookies

These cookies don't look very pretty...but they taste amazing, and they're relatively simple to prepare.

• 2 cups sugar
• ½ cup milk
• ½ stick butter
• 3 tsp dry cocoa

1. Bring to a full rolling boil and boil for one minute. Remove from heat.
2. Immediately add:
   • ½ cup peanut butter
   • 3 cups oatmeal
   • 1 tsp vanilla
   • ½ cup nuts
3. Mix together
4. Drop by teaspoonfuls on wax paper which has been placed on top of newspaper. Let set up and cool for 2 hours.

Yield: 3 – 4 dozen

Drop Sugar Cookies

• 6 eggs
• 2 cups oil
• 2 ¼ cups sugar
• 2 tbsp vanilla
• 6 cups flour
• 2 tbsp Baking powder
• 1 ½ tsp salt

1. Mix together ingredients.
2. Chill dough for 1 hour.
3. Drop by spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.
4. Flatten the top with a glass greased with butter that has then been dipped in color sugar (or just sprinkle the tops with colored sugar and skip the "flatten" bit)
5. Bake at 400 degrees for 8 – 10 minutes.

Soft Date Cookies

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup shortening (or butter)
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3 ½ cup flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ cup milk
• 1 cup raisins or chopped dates (optional)

1. Combine sugars and shortening.
2. Add eggs & vanilla.
3. Add dry ingredients.
4. Add milk.
5. Drop by rounded teaspoons on lightly greased cookie sheets.
6. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 -18 minutes until browned a little.

Eggnog Snickerdoodles

I originally found this recipe last year, over on Leanne's site.

• 1 cup butter softened to room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ tsp nutmeg/cinnamon (or ¼ tsp each)
• 1 cup eggnog
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 4 cups flour

1. Beat butter & sugar until creamy.
2. Add spices, eggnog & baking soda to butter & sugar, blend well.
3. Add flour 2 cups at a time, mix (with mixer) until combined.
4. Spoon onto nonstick cookie sheet, dip a cup in sugar (holiday colored sugar, sugar/cinnamon, sugar/nutmeg, your call), flatten the balled dough a little - but don’t flatten them completely.
5. Bake at 375 for right around 11 minutes, when you can see the bottom edges are golden brown.

Cut-out Cookies

These take more work, but they're excellent for decorating...especially for kids or groups of friends who have odd senses of humour. You can buy frosting, or use the frosting recipe below.

• ½ Cup Crisco
• ½ cup butter
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp orange peel
• 1 tsp allspice
• 3 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 4 cups flour
• 1 tbsp milk

1. Cream shortening, butter and sugar until blended. (Don’t over-beat or it will melt the butter.)
2. Add vanilla & egg & beat well.
3. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl and add to above mixture, a bit at a time and blend well.
4. Add milk. (Dough will be stiff.)
5. Refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour
6. Get out a pastry cloth and rolling pin stocking. Put about 2 tbsp. flour on it and roll pin over cloth to get flour on stocking and pastry cloth. Roll out about 1/3 of dough at a time to about ¼ inch thick. You may have to add more flour to board between each roll out.
7. Cut out shapes & put on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 – 15 minutes. Cool on cookie sheet about 5 minutes.

Frosting

• 3 cups sifted powdered sugar
• ¾ tsp salt
• ½ tsp mace
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 4 tbsp milk
• food coloring (any color(s) you choose)

Mix all ingredients, then separate the frosting into smaller cups or bowls. Add a few drops of food coloring to each bowl to create different colors of frosting...then frost the cookies above and decorate. The cookie recipe is a double recipe; but only need the regular frosting recipe.

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