Holiday Cookie Recipe

Betty Crocker has a recipe for candy cane cookies. You divide the batter and tint one half red, roll them out in strips, twine them togeth to make candy stripes then bend them into a candy cane shape. You, at some point (I can't remember if it's before or after baking) roll them in crushed up peppermints.

I bet if you go to www.recipezaar.com you can find them on there. Or a bunch of other holiday cookies.

bettycrocker.com allrecipes.com have lots of recipes.

The best cookies I have ever had (this is a friend's recipe)....make peanut butter cookie dough (you will need to look that up b/c I am not a baker) and then wrap the raw cookie dough around a snickers mini,and bake it. drizzle melted chocolate on the top of the baked cookie. It is wonderful!

Oatmeal/pecan cookies

2 sticks plus 3 tbsp butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
**Cream this together
**Add in 1 egg & 1 tsp vanilla
**Then add:
1 cup flour
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp allspice
**Then add:
3 cups OLD FASHIONED ROLLED OATS (NOT quick cooking!!)
1 cup chopped up pecans

Drop by spoonful on to COOKIE SHEET LINED WITH PARCHMENT PAPER. Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes. If you're productive, you can go ahead and measure out some parchment sheets to put unbaked cookies on - then just slide the batch off that comes out of the oven onto a cooling rack, slide the next batch onto the cookie sheet, and back into the oven it goes.

Dust with powdered sugar. Allow to cook for about 5-10 minutes before peeling them off the parchment paper.

A friend claims biscotti are really not that hard to make and everyone likes them . They can also be varied--dip in melted chocolate, add cocoa to dough, add or subtract nuts, etc.

I have never tried making them myself.

Have fun

K. Z.

A.,

This is my go-to cookie for the holiday. I make them every year, and my family and friends love it! The fabulous thing about it, is that it looks SO festive and Christmassy and difficult and ... dare I say ... expensive? It's really not. It's SO easy for the payoff.

I take the recipe right off the back of the Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate box to make their Chocolate Drop cookies. But! ... I do something different to them. It ends up being a chocolate drop cookie, piped with vanilla frosting on the top ( I just fill a plastic bag with softened icing and snip off the corner) and a cherry on top of that. If I want to get really fancy, I can shake some nuts on top or shaved chocolate or even just chocolate sprinkles. It's the fanciest looking cookie, and it's so easy. And it's delicious!

Good luck!
J.

Gingersnaps are always a tasty treat this time of year!
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