For my family, Christmas cookies are a HUGE part of the holiday. We have 5 cookies that we always make (Russian Tea Cookies, Tollhouse, Festive Cherry-etts, Spritz, and Chocolate Macaroons). This year, I'm making them all by myself. Now, since I'm not a fan of the Russian Tea Cookies or the Chocolate Macaroons, I challenge you to give me a cookie recipe that can take their place.
The rules:
1. I need the full recipe and I picture. You can either e-mail me the picture, or post it on your blog. I think the look of the cookie is as important as the taste at Christmas-time!
2. Entries MUST be received by Midnight on Monday, Dec 19th (I need time to bake!)
The Prize:
A quilting book and a kit to make the Branching Out scarf from Knitty.
I'll start it off. Here is a picture of a Festive Cherry-ette from tonight's baking:
Ingredients:
3/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup butter
tsp salt
1/2 cup Powered sugar
2 Tsp vanilla
Beat the above ingredients together, slowly adding 2 cups sifted flour and 1 cup finely chopped pecans.
Roll dough into 1 inch diameter balls, and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Press a candied cherry into the top of each cookie. Bake at 325 for 25 minutes.
I got 4 dozen cookies when I made these tonight, my mom claims to get 5 1/2 dozen - but she is an over-achiever.
9 comments:
Oh wow - I hope I have time to enter! Can I have the recipe for the Russian Tea cookies?? They sound perfect for my parents-in-law who love Russian Caravan Tea!! :-)
I don't know if I have time to get around to baking cookies! Can I just give a quick nut mix instead?
See my Dec 7th post...
http://knitting.designedlykristi.com/?p=382
Cookies, Caramels & Ost Kaka!
Feh!!! It's called ButterDreams, not Cherry-ettes and you don't use two teaspoons of vanilla, but instead two teaspoons of almond oil. Otherwise it's the exact same recipe and looks the same! I suppose this won't count as an entry....but really, my favorite cookies to make are Butter Dreams.
I'm in, I'm in, I'll take a picture tonight and post tomorrow!!!
Okeedokie Cece, my entry is up over at Comfortably Numb...thanks for the invite.
Chocolate macaroons? What could possibly be wrong with chocolate macaroons?!! Sounds yummy!
I don't really make anything spectacular. I do make a killer devilled egg and a fudge that you can make in the microwave. One of those two usually gets me thru the holiday party circuit!
I've posted my entry over at my blog!
http://knit-whit.blogspot.com/2005/12/sunflower-snackeroos.html
Happy Holiday baking!!
Hi Cece, my recipe is at my site (but you knew that!)
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