#10 of The Twelve Days of Cookies and more
December 10, 2002
Day Ten Volume I Issue X
On The Tenth Day of Christmas Cookies.
I thought I'd bake for you. . .
Cream Cheese Brownies
1 package fudge brownie mix
1 package (3ounce) cream cheese softened
2 Tablespoon margarine softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 Tablespoon flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
Prepare fudge brownies as directed on package except spread 2/3 of the dough in
13 x 9 x 2 greased pan.
Beat cream cheese and margarine in small mixer bowl at medium speed. Beat in
sugar gradually. Beat in remaining ingredients until smooth. Spread over dough
in pan. Drop remaining dough by tablespoons onto cream cheese mixture. Bake at
350º for 35-40 minutes.
Cool, cut into 1 1/2 inch squares. 5 dozen.
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an old recipe from my recipe box
More Cookie Tips 103
Freezing Cookies
I find that it helps to be able to bake when I can and freeze my cookies. That
way they are always fresh when I give them as gifts or serve them to my guests.
Here are a few hints that I have found. You can either freeze your raw cookie
dough or the baked cookies.
I have found that most dough like the standard cookies, chocolate chip, peanut
butter, shortbreads, sugar cookies freeze well. If you freeze the dough be
sure to wrap them very well, so they don' t pick up any odors from other foods
in your freezer. I generally wrap it in saran wrap and put it in a ziplock
freezer bag and store that in an airtight plastic container. This extra
protection, will help keep it from getting freezer burn. I suggest only keeping
the dough for a month. Longer than that, I am not sure how good it would be.
You can thaw the dough in your refrigerator.
I usually freeze my cookie after I have baked them. Always make sure they have
cooled completely. I wrap them in saran wrap well and place them in an airtight
container. Always put crisp cookies together and soft cookies together. Don't
put them together in the same container.
When I plate them, to give as gifts, I always wrap the soft ones so they don't
make the other soft.
Handmade Gifts from the Heart
This is a wonderful gift to give to your friends during the holidays. My
girlfriend gave me this recipe. Hers were always picture perfect. I haven't
mastered
how to roll them so I don't have all my nuts globed in the middle. They still
taste good, they just don't look like the pictures you always see. How do
they do that?
Nut Roll
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
4 eggs
1 package yeast
1/4 cup warm water
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons salt
Cream sugar and butter together. Add eggs one at a time Dissolve 1 yeast in 1/4
cup warm water and add to creamed mixture. Sift 4 cups flour and 2 teaspoons
salt together. Add to mixture and mix. Place in greased bowl, cover and
refrigerate overnight.
Nut filling
4 cups chopped pecans or walnuts
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 stick of melted butter
2 eggs, beaten
Mix all filling ingredients together.
Split your dough in half. Roll into a rectangle, spread half of the nut
filling on and roll up from the long side. Repeat with second dough roll. Seal
edges, cover with towel and place in warm spot until dough rises. Approximately
an hour.
Bake for 45 minutes at 350 º. Brush with melted butter if desired the last
fifteen minutes before roll is done
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recipes from my girlfriend
Tomorrows Cookie. . Butter Almond Cookies . .
"Somehow not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you."
Elwyn Brooks White
Cranberry Punch
1 (3oz) pkg black cherry jello
1 cup boiling water
1 (6 oz) can frozen lemonade
3 cups cold water
1 (32oz) can cranberry juice cocktail
1 (28oz) bottle ginger ale
1/2 gal raspberry sherbet.
Pour boiling water over black cherry jello: stir until dissolved. Add lemonade
and cold water. At serving time add cranberry cocktail, ginger ale and raspberry
sherbet.
Table setting
Place card ideas to for your Holiday table.
Take a solid color ornament and write the persons name on it, using a glitter
pen or felt tip pen. Tie it with a decorative bow. A gift that your friends
will have to take home with them as a remembrance. Make sure to put the date on
it.
Place cards made out of last years Holiday cards. Cut the pictures out
carefully and personalize.
Personalize sugar cookies for your guests.
Happy Holidays
to you and your family. May all your wishes come true and may you have a
blessed Holiday Season.
im/o_eml
im/o_bye
Happy Baking ~ May your Holidays be full of Memories
music ~ Carol Bells ~
Marv's Christmas Midis
"Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness
of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to
be kind.
Merry Christmas"
-Sugar
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