30 Days of Holiday Kwanzaa Cookie Recipes! Benne Cakes Day 11

Holiday Kwanzaa Cookie Recipes! Benne Cakes

Benne cakes are a food from West Africa. Benne means sesame seeds. The sesame seeds are eaten for good luck. This treat is still eaten in some parts of the

American South.

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Ingredients
oil to grease a cookie sheet
1 cup finely packed brown sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 egg, beaten
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup toasted sesame seeds

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 325°. Lightly oil a cookie sheet. Mix together the brown sugar and butter, and beat until they are creamy. Stir in the egg, vanilla extract, and lemon juice. Add flour, baking powder, salt, and sesame seeds.
Drop by rounded teaspoons onto the cookie sheet 2 inches apart. Bake for 15 minutes or until the edges are browned. Enjoy!

30 Days of Holiday Hanukkah Cookie Recipes! Oatmeal Cookies (Parve) Day 10

Holiday Hanukkah Cookie Recipes! Oatmeal Cookies (Parve)

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Ingredients:
1 cup margarine (parve), room temperature
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 cups rolled oats
2 cups of any combination of: raisins, craisins, pecans, chocolate chips

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit

2. Grease cookie sheets.

3. In a mixer, cream together margarine and sugars.

4. Add eggs and vanilla.

5. In a separate bowl, mix flour with baking soda. Stir into batter.

6. Add the rest of the ingredients.

7. Drop spoonfuls of dough onto cookie sheets or Try a Baking Stone for perfect evenly baked cookies.

8. Bake for 8-10 minutes.

30 Days of Holiday Hanukkah Cookie Recipes! Hanukkah Cookies (Dairy or Parve) Day 9

Holiday Hanukkah Cookie Recipes! Hanukkah Cookies (Dairy or Parve)

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Ingredients:
1 cup butter or pareve margarine, room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 Tbsp. orange juice
1 Tbsp. vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder

Preparation:

1. Mix ingredients margarine and sugar until smooth. Add in eggs, juice and vanilla.

2. In a separate bowl, mix flour with baking powder.

3. Add flour mixture to dough and mix until just blended.

4. Wrap the dough in wax paper and chill for at least an hour.

5. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.

6. Grease cookie sheets.

7. Flour surface and rolling pin.

8. Roll out dough until 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Add flour if the dough is sticky. Cut dough with Hanukkah cookie cutters.

9. Place Hanukkah-shaped cookies on the greased cookie sheet.

10. Bake at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 6-8 minutes or until lightly browned.

30 Days of Holiday Hanukkah Cookie Recipes! Chocolate Bon Bons Day 8

Holiday Hanukkah Cookie Recipes! Chocolate Bon Bons

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INGREDIENTS

1/4 cup butter
1 pound confectioners' sugar
1 cup sweetened condensed milk
2 cups flaked coconut
9 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate
2 tablespoons shortening

DIRECTIONS
In a medium bowl, mix together butter, confectioners' sugar, and sweetened condensed milk. Mix in the coconut. Roll dough into 1 inch balls, and refrigerate until set, about 1 hour.
Melt chocolate and shortening over a double boiler, stirring occasionally until smooth. Remove from heat when melted, and stir to make sure the shortening is fully incorporated. Use toothpicks to hold the balls while dipping in the chocolate. Set on wax paper to dry.

30 Days of Holiday Hanukkah Cookie Recipes! Easy Rugalech Day 7

Easy Rugalech

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INGREDIENTS
1/2 pound butter
2 cups cottage cheese
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup raisins
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons granulated sugar

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Mix butter or margarine, cottage cheese and flour together.
Roll the dough into a circle about 1/4 inch thick. Cut the dough into triangular wedges. Sprinkle raisins into the broad end of the wedge along with cinnamon and sugar. Roll from the broad edge toward the pointed edge to form crescents. Sprinkle the crescents with cinnamon and sugar. Arrange the cookies on an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake for 12 minutes.

30 Days of Holiday Christmas Cookie Recipes! Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookie Logs Day 6

30 Days of Holiday Christmas Cookie Recipes!

Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookie Logs

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INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1 tablespoon shortening
3/4 cup finely chopped walnuts

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
Cream together butter and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Stir in vanilla. Mix in the flour, and then one cup of the chocolate chips. Shape dough into 2x1/2 inch logs. Place logs 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheets.
Bake for 10 to 13 minutes in preheated oven, or until firm. Let cookies cool completely before removing from pan (shortbread is brittle).
Melt the remaining 1 cup chocolate chips and shortening over a double boiler, stirring frequently until smooth. Dip one end of each cookie into the chocolate, then into the nuts. Place onto waxed paper until set.

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30 Days of Holiday Christmas Cookie Recipes! Coconut-Peanut Cookies Day 5

International Favorite. Coconut-Peanut Cookies

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Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon fine salt
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, slightly softened
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 cup flaked or shredded sweetened coconut
1 cup old fashioned oats
3/4 cup chopped unsalted roasted, skinless peanuts


Directions


Position 2 racks in the middle of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. (If you only have 1 baking sheet, let it cool completely between batches.)


Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in a medium bowl.

Melt the butter in medium saucepan over low heat. Remove the pan from the heat, and stir in the brown sugar with a wooden spoon. (The sugar will get soft and saucy, but there may still be a layer of butter on top; don't worry, the mixture comes together as you add the rest of the ingredients.) Stir in the egg, then the flour mixture, taking care not to overmix. Stir in the coconut, oats and nuts to make a textured cookie dough. Set aside until it gets to room temperature, about 30 minutes.


Using a tablespoon-sized ice cream scoop (#60), scoop balls of the dough onto the prepared pans, arranging them about 2 1/2 inches apart. Bake until the cookies are golden brown with toasted edges, about 12 minutes.

Cool cookies in the pans for a couple minutes. Then transfer with a spatula to racks to cool. Serve.

30 Days of Holiday Christmas Cookie Recipes! One Dough, Three Holiday Cookies Day 4

Make 1 basic dough & separate to make 3 different Christmas Cookies

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Basic Dough:


Directions
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract


Coarse sugar, for sugar cookies only



Chocolate and Walnut Cookies, recipe follows

Almond-Orange Cookies, recipe follows



Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cloves in a small bowl. Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes in a standing mixer (preferably fitted with paddle attachment) or 6 minutes with a handheld beater. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low, then add flour mixture and mix until just combined.

Form dough into a 12-inch log (2 inches in diameter) on a sheet of plastic wrap and roll up in the plastic wrap. Chill dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour.


Cut 1/2-inch thick slices from the log with a sharp knife and arrange on 2 ungreased large baking sheets, about 1-inch apart.




For basic sugar cookies, sprinkle generously with coarse sugar and bake for 15 minutes or until lightly browned and slightly puffed.   You can add a few drops of food coloring to sugar & sprinkle with colored sugar.


Cool on baking sheets for 3 minutes, then transfer with a metal spatula to racks to cool completely.

Chocolate and Walnut Cookies:


6 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Make basic dough according to recipe above, but adding the cocoa powder to the flour mixture and folding in the nuts just after mixing the batter. Bake for 15 minutes and then cool on sheets for 3 minutes before transferring to racks to cool completely.

Almond-Orange Cookies:


1/2 orange, zested
1/2 cup sliced almonds, finely chopped in a blender to a coarse flour consistency
24 teaspoons chunky marmalade
1/2 cup sliced almonds, for topping


Make basic dough according to recipe above, but adding both the orange zest and ground almonds when you add the flour mixture.


When cookies are formed, make a slight depression in the middle and fill each with about 1 teaspoon marmalade. Top each with a good pinch of sliced almonds. Bake for 20 minutes and then cool on sheets for 3 minutes before transferring to racks to cool completely.

30 Days of Holiday Christmas Cookie Recipes! Holly Berry Cookies Day 3

Holly Berry Cookies

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Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup cold butter
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
2/3 cup seedless raspberry jam


GLAZE:
2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract


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Green food coloring


Directions:
In a large bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. In a small bowl, beat egg and milk. Add to crumb mixture just until moistened. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until dough is easy to handle.


On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a 2-in. round cookie cutter. Place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool on wire racks. Spread jam on half of the cookies; top each with another cookie.


In a small bowl, combine sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth; spread over cookies. Decorate with red-hots before glaze is set. Let dry. Using a small new paintbrush and green food coloring, paint holly leaves on cookies. Yield: 2 dozen.