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- Nov 21, 2005
I am getting excited about baking for Christmas...can you share your favorite cookie recipe???
Butter Cookies (Cookie Press Cookies)
1 cup (2 sticks) Butter
1/2 cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 tps Almond Extract
2-1/3 cups Flour
Cream butter. Gradually add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and almond extract. Gradually beat in flour. Fill cookie press with 1/4 of dough at a time; form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheets. Add sprinkles! Bake in preheated 350˚ oven, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove immediately to wire rack to cool. Makes about 7 dozen cookies. For Christmas we usually make a double batch. They are smallish bite size cookies.
That is all the Christmas cookie recipies I happen to have on my computer here at work.
We usually make lots and lots of cookies! My mom, sister and I usually get together and make most of the cookies in one weekend. We have so much fun! The past couple of years DS12 has also helped. He loves to cook and bake! We all buy our ingredients and go to either my house or my mom's (we both have double ovens). We have two stand mixers and we usually have atleast 3 (but usually more) kinds of cookies at being mixed, baked, chilled or iced at a time. We usually each pick a batch of cookies to make. We then double the batches or make 3 batches in a row if there is a certain kind of cookie one of us does like to make (like I hate rollout cookies and my sister loves it). It speeds things up if you do multiple batches of the same cookies at the time.
This year we are at my mom's house since they just did a complete kitchen remodel and she got the world's coolest double oven. We can have 8 sheets of cookies baking at one time!
When I get time over the next couple of weeks I will add more cookie recipies.
My mom and I are going to get together December 1st (DSis will be out if town) to start making cookies and then we will finish them up on the 10th while the guys are out deer hunting.
Yummmmy they all look so good!!! On that last one...what kind of nuts do YOU use? I usually don't like to put nuts in anything I bake...but if I do...what would you suggest?
I do these...ok TRY and do these with my cookie press....and I get so aggrivated with them...they either stick to the cookie sheet...stick to the cookie press...just don't do what they are suppose to!!
Do you have any tips?? I even try to chill the dough and it STILL doesn't work!!! HELP ME!!!
I have good memories of my Nanas cookies and I want to be able to make them too.
Staci...this sounds like a lot of fun!! I wish my sister and I could do this but she lives too far away! Of course...I guess I COULD drive down there for a weekend and do it....Hmmmm have to think about this more.