Dec. 17, 2008
Winter Treats!
Posted in Homeschool Memoirs
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This week I want to invite you to share one of your favourite winter treats. A treat you look forward to making when the snow falls and include the recipe for it so others can try it out.
I just posted a couple of my favorite baking recipes here. You'll find my quick (and easy and cheap!) peanut butter cookies-- be careful not to burn them! Also there is the recipe for chocolate pretzel treat things that EVERYONE loves. Seriously. You cannot go wrong with those.
My favorite cookie recipe that I get requests for as well, and it wouldn't seem like Christmas without, is Mint Spritz. From: "Christmas Cook-Ease by Pat Giocacchini" Makes: 72 Cook Time: 8-10 minutes
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 c. margarine, at room temperature
- 1/2 c. vegetable shortening
- 1 c. sugar
- 1 egg, slightly beaten, at room temperature
- 1 t. vanilla
- 1/2 t. peppermint extract
- 1 t. baking soda
- 3 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
- 1/4 t. red food coloring
- 1/2 t. green food coloring
- 4 T. all-purpose flour
DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Beat margarine, shortening and sugar in a large bowl until light and creamy. Add egg and flavorings and mix well.
- Stir baking soda into flour. With mixer on low speed, gradually add the flour mixture to the batter.
- Divide dough into thirds and place in 3 separate bowls. Set one third aside for plain dough. Add red food coloring and 2 T. flour to the second third. Add green food coloring and 2 T. flour to final third.
- Take half of each dough and form a log a little shorter than the cookie press. Place each piece of dough into the press and push dough into the sides of the press, leaving room for each remaining piece.
- Using the pinwheel template of the cookie press, fore the dugh through the cookie press onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with red sugar if desired.
- Bake cookies for 8-10 mins until cookies show a slight browing along the edges. Cool on a wire rack. Store in an airtight container.
FOOTNOTE:
I didn't divide into thirds and do this. I just made two halves with color (didn't add the flour).
Yield 72 cookies.
65 cal, 4 g fat, 3 mg cholest, 40 mg sodium
And yesterday I made the cake mix spritz that Pampered Chef consultants make at shows. Turned out well!
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