Posts Tagged ‘cookies’

Christmas Cookie Traditions

Christmas traditions are part of every family experience. Whether it is spending time shopping, going to parties, staying home with family and friends these traditions are important.

They are important because they give continuity to family. Something you can look forward to year after year. Something your parents did, your grandparents and if you are very lucky your great-grandparents.

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Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches

 

We had some left over ice cream from when Ed made it and no one would touch it for some reason.   I guess no one wanted to be the one to finish off the ice cream.   So what to do with it?

I found this recipe and remembered my Mom made something very similiar when I was a kid, only she used vanilla wafers or any other kind of cookie she had laying around.

So you and the kids enjoy and be sure an experiment with different cookie/ice cream combinations.

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Chocolate Chip Cookie S’mores

I know I just posted, but I was watching the food channel last night and they had a show with Paula, Bobby Flay, Elton Brown, Tyler ( don’t know his last name) and Giada about Grilling on South Beach…the recipes were awesome.

Of course the chocolate smores caught my interest.  They look so good, that I will have to try them soon!

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen, 2007
Ingredients

* Canola oil
* 3 bananas
* 10 store-bought chocolate chip cookies (the larger the better)
* 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
* 1 cup small marshmallows
* 1 cup chocolate chips

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Oatmeal Can Taste Great

I have not always been a fan of oatmeal cereal.  I ate it maybe twice, three times a year.  My mother used to cook it for my siblings and myself for breakfast and I remember it was always gooey and slimy, that might have had something to do with the fact that I couldn’t get past the first spoonful.

Mom was a good cook, but she had these little quirks (I like to call them that), she felt if she ate food one way as a child then her children should eat it that way also. When I started having children I made a promise to them and myself that no slimy oatmeal would pass their lips or mine ever again.  I have kept that promise, but I do eat oatmeal cereal now.

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Peanut Butter Temptations

Peanut butter tarts with a chocolate covered peanut butter cup in the middle. You will need a mini muffin pan to make these.
Yield: 3 dozen
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
36 miniature chocolate covered peanut butter cups, unwrapped
Directions

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A New Twist On A Standard Cookie

Years ago I was looking for a way to make the ordinary sugar cookie even more tasty. At the time I must have been crazy to put that much sugar in my kids, but these sugar cookies have become a staple at Christmas time.

Use either the rolled up sugar cookies you buy at the grocery store for your base, or make your favorite sugar cookie recipe.
Here is mine:

Ingredients:

3/4 cup shortening (I use butter only)
1 cup of sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp lemon or vanilla flavoring
2 1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
your favorite jam or jelly
powdered sugar

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Sweet Turkey Treats

From Family Fun Magazine

From FamilyFun reader Natalie D. of Utah: One recent Thanksgiving, my daughter, Sara, age 7, and I whipped up a batch of sweet turkey treats. Everyone loved the turkeys — especially the kids, who ate them for dessert.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Oreo cookies
Royal icing
Whoppers candy
Candy corn
1. We used half an Oreo cookie for each body and an entire cookie for each tail, then used a dab of royal icing to affix Whoppers for heads.

2. We piped on icing eyes and also used icing to affix the candy corn feathers and beaks.

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