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Thin Mint Christmas Cookies

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It is quaternary dimension to start planning your Christmas cookie list, isn't it? Today's cookie is really a v star keeper!! These festive cookies savor but like Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies(only better!!) inwards add-on to they solitary own got TWO INGREDIENTS to make!!! People testament hateful value you've been working on them all day.   I  drizzled some   white chocolate decoration on these, but for fun, but it certainly isn't necessary. You can  use holiday sprinkles instead. You testament need or therefore Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers inwards add-on to or therefore Andes (creme de menthe) chocolates..... that's it!!     The chocolate wafers come upwards upwardly inwards a ix ounce packet inwards add-on to I industrial plant life the Andes Mints (those creamy niggling chocolate mints alongside the light-green center) inwards a 4.67 ounce package.  There are 28 mints inwards the packet inwards add-on to i packet testament exe

Sweet Irish Gaelic Patato Pecan Pie Tarts

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I'm posting this at midnight equally good equally it is FIFTEEN BELOW ZERO HERE!! This finally weekend was our 39 th union ceremony anniversary; we were high schoolhouse sweethearts. To celebrate, I made a big roast beef dinner equally good equally these heavenly picayune tarts that I found on Shelby's The Life equally good equally Loves of Grumpy's Honybunch . They are absolutely delicious tiny bites (about the size of a tassie ) of cinnamon spiced sweetness Irish Gaelic Gaelic patato equally good equally pecans all baked inward a pre-prepared mini-phyllo cup. They are impressive looking, peachy tasting, ultra-easy equally good equally (believe it or not) the recipe says they are lone well-nigh 45 calories each!! It doesn't dice much better than that!!! 1 loving loving cup cooked and mashed sweetness potato 3 tablespoons white sugar ¼ teaspoon cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/3 loving loving cup chopped toasted pecans ¼ loving loving cup chocolate-brown sugar, p

Shortbread Melt Aways

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This cookie has a existent traditional shortbread cookie texture, yet it is lite every fleck a feather, sweet every bit good literally melts inwards your mouth!!! These cookies are ane of my families favorites every bit good they are gone inwards a snap!!   1 1/2 cups butter (room temperature) 1 loving loving cup powdered sugar 1/4 loving loving cup cornstarch 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon coconut extract 1/4 teaspoon salt Beat the room temperature butter for closed a minute, or until it is smooth. Add the powdered sugar, salt and extracts and shell on medium high for another minute. Add the cornstarch every bit good shell until practiced mixed. Add the flour, ane loving loving cup at a time, beating practiced inwards between each cup.  Beat everything for ane more than minute, every bit good thence covert every bit good chill for closed thirty minutes (I seldom chill the dough every bit good it does ok). Roll the dough into 1" balls every bi

Raspberry Shortbread Bars

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This is the best recipe I've tried inwards a long time. I constitute it over on " The Domestic Rebel "....my picky-picky married adult human being is inwards beloved amongst this sweetness treat!!! The bottom crust is a deliciously TENDER shortbread, so at that location is a elementary layer of raspberry jam, nuts inwards add-on to more than shortbread pieces on top. It couldn't alive easier!!! The original recipe didn't convey a frosting, but I hateful value every cookie bar needs a drizzle, don't you? (My tweaks to this recipe are inwards blue). CLICK ON THIS PICTURE 3/4 loving loving cup butter (room temperature) 1/2 loving loving cup powdered sugar 1   teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon almond  extract 1 1/2 cups flour 3/4 loving loving cup raspberry jam (I used 1/2 cup) 1 loving loving cup slivered almonds (I used 3/4 loving loving cup of toasted pecans, chopped) Preheat oven to 350°F inwards add-on to operate an 8"x 8&

Rasberry Shortbread Bars

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Everyone loves these raspberry bars, they deport keep an ultra-buttery shortbread crust topped with cooked raspberries as good as a streusel topping. They are actually sweet, buttery, tender AND they cut nicely...perfect for gift giving. Raspberries grow expert inward Alaska, thence if you lot lot are lucky enough to deport keep shut to inward the freezer, this is a wonderful recipe for them; I'm not thence lucky, thence I used a 12 ounce handbag of frozen raspberries. NOTE: You tin skip this step if you lot lot wish to trouble raspberry (or ANY flavor) jam. Put the berries (no need to thaw) in a heavy saucepan with 1/4 loving loving cup of body of water as good as 1 loving loving cup of white sugar. Bring to a boil over high heat, as good as too then cutting downwardly the oestrus to medium high and simmer the berries until thick (I plough mine downwards to a medium depression oestrus for a gentle boil as good as fix them for close xv minutes, stirring 1 fourth dimens

Pecan Tassies

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Everyone seems to bring their ain favorite Pecan Tassie recipe, but the crust inwards 99% of the recipes out there is the same..... flour, butter together with cream cheese. This year, I added just a niggling extra something to the crust trouble organisation role of the recipe together with it made a HUGE departure to the overall cookie, they were a large hit. Tassie Crust 1 loving loving cup butter (room temperature) 6 ounces cream cheese (room temperature) 2 cups flour 2 tablespoons sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon salt Cream the butter together with cream cheese (with electrical mixer) until it is lite together with fluffy. Add rest of the ingredients and beat out until the dough comes cleanly away from the inside walls of your mixing bowl. Flatten dough into a disk, twine inwards plastic together with chill for ane hour. Tassie Filling 3 large eggs 3 tablespoons melted unsalted butter 1 3/4 cups lite brownish sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 teaspoon s

Pecan Sandie Cookies

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I hateful value of my honey sugariness adult woman enhance every 4th dimension I build these pecan sandie's, they were her favorite kind of cookie; I hateful value Keebler made them if I shout out upwards correctly.     This cookie is buttery, sweet, tender and  they melt inward your oral fissure (and at that location are NO EGGS). The cookie dough is formed into logs, thus chilled, thus sliced equally good equally baked at your convenience.  This recipe makes a lot of cookies, thus y'all lot tin also bake part of them and preserve the residual of the chilled dough for afterward inward the week!! It is also a cracking opor-garai recipe because they become proficient equally good equally they are e'er a hitting at cookie exchanges. 2 cups butter (no substitutions) room temperature 1 cup granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon coconut extract (see note) 4 cups all usage flour 1 cup chopped pecans In the bowl of an electric m

Oatmeal Cranberry Walnut Cookies

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If you lot lot are looking for ane more than belatedly cookie to round your opor-garai baking, crusade these delicious cookies. They are light, crispy inwards add-on to buttery tasting (not the measure heavy oatmeal cookie). 1 loving loving cup butter (room temperature) 1 loving loving cup packed dark-brown sugar 1 loving loving cup white sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon butter extract 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 cups quick cooking oats 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups Craisens (sweetened dried cranberries) 1 loving loving cup chopped walnuts Beat butter, sugars, eggs inwards add-on to extracts for FIVE MINUTES (important to the low-cal crispy nature of this cookie). . In more than or less other bowl, mix the flour, oatmeal, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon inwards add-on to salt. Add this dry out out mixture to the butter mixture (1 loving loving cup at a time) beating expert subsequently each addition. . Stir inwar

Monster Chocolate Fight Cookies

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I build these cookies for Christmas; individually wrapped, these BIG COOKIES build nice give give thank you you lot you treats for teachers, the transportation service man, the UPS man, etc. The flavour of this chocolate flake cookie the best I've e'er found, alongside tons of chocolate equally good walnuts.  This recipe makes almost 24 HUGE 5" cookies. 1/2 loving loving cup rolled oats  2  1/4 cups flour 1  1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1  teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1 loving loving cup butter (room temperature) 3/4 loving loving cup brownish sugar 3/4 loving loving cup regular white sugar 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice 2 eggs 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 loving loving cup walnuts chopped Put the rolled oats inwards the food processor equally good physical care for until you lot larn a fairly fine powder. In a bowl, mix the oat "powder" alongside the flour + baking soda + table common salt + cinnamon equally good

Maple Pecan Tassies

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When our kids were little, I made these Tassie's ONLY on special occasions, or during the Christmas holiday. I'm non sure as shooting why that was "the rule", merely it was. These days, at our house, Tassie's have evolved into a barbecue "staple" for several reasons: non lone are they super late (and mess-less) to serve a crowd (especially the trivial ones), merely yous lot tin construct them a solar daytime (or even out two) ahead of time, which is e'er handy. I merely educate a tray of these beauties out on the buffet table, together with guests "re-visit" it inwards ane lawsuit in i lawsuit again together with again; I guess their mini-size isn't every chip intimidating every chip a large sometime while of pecan pie. Tassie's Aren't Just For Christmas Anymore!! PASTRY CRUST 1 loving loving cup unsalted butter at room temperature (see note) 6 ounces cream cheese at room temperature 2 cups all component flour

Easy Kolache Cookies

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There are many different styles (and spellings) for Kolache cookies; but almost are made with yeast, but almost made with cream cheese, but almost are round, but almost are rolled up. This recipe is a cream cheese together with butter crust that is light as air together with bakes upwardly flaky together with sweet . Instead of using dried fruit, it uses jam (any flavor yous like) They are truly delicious together with facial expression SO PRETTY on whatever cookie tray. CRUST 2  1/4  cups all role flour 1  loving loving cup UNsalted butter at room temperature 8  ounces full obese cream cheese at room temperature 1/2 teaspoon salt Mix flour together with table common salt together with pose upwardly aside. NOTE: If yous attain not straight keep table common salt gratis butter, but omit the table common salt inwards this recipe. In a stand upwards upwardly mixer, shell the room temperature butter together with the room temperature cream cheese on medium high speed for 4

Easy Danish Butter Cookies

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Remember those crispy opor-garai cookies that came inwards the brilliant blueish dismiss containers at Christmas? Yes, those!!! They are Danish Butter Cookies together with they are TOTALLY addicting!!!  These cookies don't straight instruct out on that fancy swirl that came on the opor-garai cookies inwards the tins, but that is a SMALL cost to pay inwards telephone exchange for how tardily these are to make. 1 loving loving cup butter at room temperature 1 loving loving cup granulated sugar 1 egg 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar Cream the room temperature butter together with carbohydrate until it is lite together with creamy (about a min or so). Add 1 egg together with the vanilla. Beat until lite together with fluffy (about another minute). Mix the flour, baking soda together with cream of tarter inwards a little bowl together with add together together it to the beaten butter, half lovi