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Christmas Cookies Recipies #10: Gingerbread Boys

These are the best gingerbread men I've ever eaten. A nice light flavor with a hint of orange.

Yield:
3 -5 dozen
Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened

1 1/2 cups white sugar

1 egg

1 1/2 tablespoons orange zest

2 tablespoons dark corn syrup

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions
Cream the butter and the sugar together.

Add the egg and mix well.

Mix in the orange peel and dark corn syrup.

Add the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, ground cloves and salt, mixing until well combined. Chill dough overnight.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

Grease cookie sheets.
Roll dough out to 1/4 inch thick and cut into desired shapes.

Place cookies 1 inch apart on the prepared pan. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 10 to 12 minutes.

Christmas Cookie Recipie #9: Fruit Cake Cookies

Fruit Cake Cookies

2 1/2 cups dates, cut into small pieces
3 tablespoons rum
3/4 cup candied cherries
3/4 cup white raisins
2 slices candied pineapple, coarsely chopped
2 cups coarsely chopped toasted walnuts*
2 cups coarsely chopped toasted almonds*
2 cups coarsely chopped toasted pecans*
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
3/4 cup firmly-packed brown sugar
1 egg, well beaten
1 cup cake flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground mace
Grated zest of 1 orange
Grated zest of 1 lemon
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon pure almond extract

* How to toast nuts - Spread nuts in a single layer on a baking pan (one with walls is best) for toasting in the oven. Cook at 400 degrees F for 7 to 10 minutes or until the nuts start to turn golden. Shake the pan halfway through toasting.

In the top of a double boiler over hot water, combine dates and rum; let steep 2 to 3 hours.

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine candied cherries, white raisins, candied pineapple, walnuts, almonds, and pecans. Sift 1/4 cup flour over the fruit and nut mixture; stir until well blended. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy; add egg and continue to cream until light and fluffy. Sift cake flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and mace into butter mixture; stir until well blended. Add steeped dates, orange zest, lemon zest, vanilla extract, and almond extract to batter; stir until well blended. Add fruit and nut mixture; stir until well blended.

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown (be careful not to over bake). Remove from oven and cool on wire racks. Store cookies in an airtight container.

NOTE: You can use any combination of nuts or fruits in the recipe that you wish. Whatever you have on hand in the pantry.

Yields 5 dozen cookies.

Christmas Cookie Recipes: # 8--Peanut Butter Blossoms

1 bag (8oz) Hershey's Kisses

1 egg

1/2 cup shortening

2 tablespoons milk

3/4 cup peanut butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/3 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt additional granulated sugar

Heat oven to 375F.

Remove candy wrappers.

In large bowl

Beat shortening and peanut butter until well blended.

Add the 1/3 cup of granulated sugar and all of the brown sugar; beat until light and fluffy.

Add egg, milk and vanilla; beat well.

Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to peanut butter mixture.

Shape dough into 1-inch balls.

Roll in the additional granulated sugar; place on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.

Immediately place kiss on top of each cookie, pressing down so cookie cracks around edges. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.

Cool completely.

Christmas Cookie Recipe: # 7--Thumbprint Cookies

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:
1/2 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1/2 cup margarine, room temperature
1/2 cup shortening
2 large eggs, separated
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups finely chopped pecans
jam or preserves

Preparation:Cream together brown sugar, margarine, and shortening;
beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
Beat egg white slightly; dip balls into egg white; roll in finely chopped pecans.
Place cookies about 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheet; press thumb deeply in center of each.
Bake until light brown, about 10 minutes.
Immediately remove from cookie sheet; cool thoroughly.
Fill thumbprints with jam or preserves.
Makes 5 to 6 dozen thumbprint cookies.

Christmas Cookie Recipe; #5--Fantasy Fudge

Yes, this is the original Fantasy Fudge recipe from the back of the Kraft Marshmallow Creme jar. We'll never know why they changed the recipe on us, but we've preserved the recipe for you right here.

Makes about 117

3 cups sugar

3/4 cup margarine

2/3 cup evaporated milk

1 12-oz. (340 g) package semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 7-oz. (198 g) jar Kraft Marshmallow creme

1 cup chopped nuts

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Traditional method:

Combine sugar, margarine and milk in heavy 2-1/2 quart saucepan;

bring to full rolling bail, stirring constantly.

Continue boiling 5 minutes over medium heat, stirring.

Remove from heat, stir in chocolate till melted.

Add marshmallow creme, nuts & vanilla beat till blended.

Pour into greased 13 x 9-inch baking pan.

Let cool and cut into 1-inch squares.

Microwave method:

Microwave margarine in 4-quart microwave-safe bowl on HIGH (100%) 1 minute or until melted.

Add sugar and milk; mix well.

Microwave on HIGH 5 minutes or until mixture begins to boil, stirring after 3 minutes. Mix well; scrape bowl.

Continue microwaving on HIGH 5-1/2 minutes; stir after 3 minutes.

Stir in chips until melted.

Add remaining ingredients; mix well.

Pour into greased 13 x 9-inch baking pan.

Cool at room temperature; cut into squares.

Makes 3 pounds.
Note: Can be made in a smaller pan for thicker squares (yield will be reduced).

Christmas Cookie Recipies: #4--Sugar Cookies

Here are two tried and true Recipies. Try them Both!

BEST SUGAR COOKIES EVER

1 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup white sugar

2 eggs

2 3/4 cups Swans Down Cake Flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 375°F.

Cream butter add brown sugar;

beat one minute.

Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Slowly add flour and baking soda, then vanilla.
Beat well for three minutes.

Bake 10 minutes.

WORLD'S BEST SUGAR COOKIES

1 1/2 c. powdered sugar

1 c. butter
Cream together.

1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 tsp. almond

2 1/2 c. flour

1 tsp. soda

1 tsp. cream of tartar

Mix all in order given.

Refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours.

Roll 3/16 inch.

Sprinkle with sugar.

Bake for 6 to 8 minutes at 350 degrees.

Check out this Demonstration Video on how Taste of Home makes Sugar cookies...

Christmas Cookie Recipe: #3--Chocolate Scotcheroos

Ingredients

6 cups rice krispies

1 cup light corn syrup

1 cup sugar

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup chocolate chips (I use 1 3/4 cups chocolate chips)

1 cup butterscotch flavoured chips (I use 1/4 cup butterscotch chips)

Directions:

Cook corn syrup and sugar until it boils. Pull pan from the hot eye of the stove.

stir in peanut butter.

mix in 6 cups rice krispies.

Spread this mixture in a 9X13 pan and let cool completely.

melt cocolate chips and butterscotch chips over hot water, stir and spread over krispy rice mixure .

let cool and cut.

I suggest putting a piece of alumnium foil in the 9X13 pan with edges folding over the outside of the pan. Spray some pam on the foil.

When the cookies are all cooled, they can be very difficult to cut....so all you have to do is pull them all out in one big piece and put the whole thing on a cutting board. Use the big knife you use for chopping. Not sure what you call the knife.....but you know what I mean....
This make for much neater and easier cutting.

Enjoy, This one has been in our family for over 40 years!!

Christmas Cookie Recipies: #2 Butterscotch Chow Mein Drops

These easy drop candies get their crunch from fried chow mein noodles, and their sweet nutty taste from butterscotch chips mixed with a generous dollop of peanut butter.
Prep Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:
1 package (10 oz) butterscotch chips
1 can (5 oz) crispy chow mein noodles
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 cups chocolate chips

Preparation:
1. Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with aluminum foil and set aside for now.

2. Combine the butterscotch chips and peanut butter in a large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave the mixture in one-minute increments, stirring after every minute to prevent overheating. Stir until the mixture is smooth and well-combined.

3. Add the chow mein noodles to the melted butterscotch and stir until they noodles are evenly covered.

4. Drop small spoonfuls of the candy onto the prepared baking sheet. These candies are easiest to eat when they are small, so try to make the spoonfuls no larger than one tablespoon or so. Refrigerate the candy until it has firmed up, about 25 minutes.

5. While the candy is chilling, melt the chocolate chips. Place them in a medium microwave-safe bowl and microwave in one-minute increments, stirring after every minute to prevent overheating. Stir until the chocolate is entirely smooth.

6. Once the butterscotch noodles are firm, dip the bottoms in the melted chocolate, coming half an inch up the sides of the candy. Replace the dipped candies on the foil-covered baking sheet, and repeat with remaining candies and chocolate. If you have excess chocolate left over, you can drizzle it decoratively over the tops of the candies.

7. Refrigerate the candies once more to set the chocolate, for about 15 minutes. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.
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Christmas Cookie Recipies: #1--Saltine Toffee

This easy Saltine Toffee recipe uses saltine crackers and a few common ingredients to make an uncommonly good candy that’s sweet, salty, crunchy, and chocolatey. You can make it more gourmet by adding chopped nuts or dried fruit to the top, or adding swirls of white or milk chocolate.
Prep Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:
1.5 sleeves of saltine crackers
1 stick (4 oz) butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 cups chocolate chips

Preparation:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with aluminum foil and spraying the foil with nonstick cooking spray.

2. Arrange the crackers in a single layer on the baking sheet so that there are no empty spaces in between them. Crush any remaining crackers into small crumbs and set aside for now.

3. Place the butter and brown sugar in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir while the butter melts, and bring the mixture to a rolling boil. Once boiling, carefully pour the sugar-butter mixture over the crackers on the baking sheet in an even layer, trying to cover most of the crackers. If you miss some spots, don’t worry as the toffee will spread in the oven.

4. Bake the toffee crackers at 350 degrees for five minutes, until the toffee is bubbling all over. Carefully remove the pan from the oven and allow to cool for one minute.

5. Sprinkle the chocolate chips on top of the hot toffee, and allow them to sit for one minute to soften and melt. Once softened, use an offset spatula or knife to spread the melted chocolate over the entire surface of the toffee in an even layer. While the chocolate is still sticky, sprinkle the top with the reserved crushed crackers.

6. Refrigerate the pan to set the toffee and chocolate for about 30 minutes. Once set, break into small uneven pieces by hand, and enjoy! Store uneaten saltine toffee in an airtight container for up to a week.

Make Your Christmas Gifts: Ideas Galore!

I love to make Christmas gifts and
I love to get gifts that someone has taken the time to make.

I like to search for new ideas every year.
Here are some places I found alot of great ideas.

100 Home-Made Gift Ideas
34 Great Gifts To Make For Christmas


You have any ideas for Homemade Christmas Gifts?

Girls Night Out=Many Yummy Cookies

A great way to have a girls night out and not feel guilty about doing it is to have a Cookie Exchange. This is great fun...you get to spend time with you friends and come home with a load of different beautiful cookies...This is a time saver.

Here's how to have a Cookie Exchange with your friends, family, neighbors, church or community group!

* Invite 8 friends

* Everyone make 8 dozen cookies to exchange.

* Ask everyone to bake their family's favorite cookie and try to make sure there will be no duplicated recipes for the Cookie Exchange. The more variety you have the more fun it will be!

* Cookies to be exchanged should be wrapped well; placed either on plastic plates with saran wrap or in inexpensive disposable containers that are airtight.

* Attaching a copy of the cookie recipe with each dozen is always a nice touch, be sure everyone includes their name and any information about where the recipe is from, how it originated or at least a few words about how much their family enjoys the cookies.

* During the Cookie Exchange serve warm beverages such as coffee, hot cocoa, hot apple cider or herbal teas in pretty cups.

And most of all, enjoy this fun time with your friends! Thas What Works For Me!
Here are two really great sites that have loads of information and helps for pulling off a successful Cookie Exchange.

http://www.bettycrocker.com/Entertaining/CookieExchange/

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/Community/CookieExchange/HostingACookieExchange.htm

Cookie Exchange Video from Taste of Home

Below are a few demonstration Videos on making cookies.

Santa Cookie Demonstration Video from Taste of Home

How to Ship your homemade cookies Video from Taste of Home

This is such a wonderful way to spend time with friends, get new recipies and come home with a variety of baked goodies.

That's what works for me! For more ideas, visit Rocks in my Dryer.

Now There is Cooking & Baking & Cleaning & Shopping.......

I feel as if I am naming off Santa's Reindeer and there is no end.

With my oldest daughter off from college yesterday and off from work...we decided to finally get the tree up. They did it all with a little directions ( unwanted as it may be ) from mom.

They did an awesome job. The tree was loaned to us from a dear, sweet, friend from church and it is the most beautiful tree I have ever had in my house. It looks so real....It is really big and we moved the room around to make it fit....Only problem is, if anyone comes to the front door....we can't get it open....OH NO!

We don't have a chimney either...how will Santa get in....OH MY! Another dilema!

While the girls put up the tree, I was off to the kitchen to make up a batch of sugar cookie dough to use in our homeschool party. We baked and decorated the sugar cookies of all shapes and then we split up and delivered them to many deserving folks in our community...I hope they all have health insurance...lol

It was a fun day and as soon as we got home the bad weather came in and we were safe and sound and snug in our home....It was a good time.

Today, we have ice everywhere and I am going to do some more baking while there girls clean. My youngest is finishing up her school work for the day first and nursing a cold she woke up with...yuck.

I have and will have several posts having to do with Christmas Baking, Cookie Exchange Parties and such topics. Come back and get some great Cookie Recipies. Better Yet Subscribe to the feed and get the post daily.

I hope your day is fruitful and you are warm and snug in your home. God Bless!

Wordless Wednesday--Oh My!

25 copies of The Christmas Box for Free-You pay only Shipping!

Through Saturday, December 6, 2008, you can get a box of 25 copies of The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans for just the cost of shipping and handling--$15!

Go here for more details.

I think it would make a beautiful Christmas gift of encouragement to others--especially as it serves as a reminder of what is really most important in life.

Blessings

Free Christmas Fun From Ms. Cheap!

The Nashville Tennessean has a wonderfully informative article by Ms. Cheap listing all the FREE activities locally that will make you Christmas Cheerier and Cheap.
Click on this link to go straight to the article.

Here are a few fun things on Ms. Cheaps list:

DEC. 5-7: The Metro Parks Youth Ballet Mini-Nutcracker will take place at 7 p.m. on Dec. 5, at 2 and 7 p.m. on Dec. 6, and at 1 p.m. on Dec. 7 in the Davis Auditorium at the Harpeth Hall School. Tickets for Friday/Saturday are $6 or $4 for ages 12 and under. On Sunday, it's $10 for all ages and includes a reception. 862-8439

DEC. 6: The Frist Center for the Visual Arts hosts a 2 p.m. Blair School of Music Children's Suzuki Violin and Cello performance. 244-3340 or http://www.fristcenter.org/

DEC. 6: The Discovery Center at Murfree Spring, 502 S.E. Broad St. in Murfreesboro, has an open house 10 a.m.-4 p.m. It's cooking, crafts and a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Clause, and even a Grinch appearance. 890-2300 or http://www.discoverycenteronline.org/


DEC. 6: Young Chefs Academy, a cooking school for kids, at 99 Seaboard Lane in Franklin, is having a hands-on open house teaching family-friendly recipes and kitchens skills 2-5 p.m. It's free if you bring canned goods for Second Harvest Food Bank. Ages 3 and up can create some good holiday treats. 371-5151 or www.youngchefsacademy.com/brentwood

DEC. 6: Mansker's Yule Fest, is an 18th-century Christmas celebration at Mansker's Station and the Bowen Plantation House in Moss Wright Park in Goodlettsville. It's 6-9 p.m. with music, dance, storytelling and refreshments. 859-3678

DEC. 8: Music City Bronze handbell ensemble has a holiday concert at 7 p.m. at Westland United Methodist Church, 110 Dawson Lane in Lebanon. The ensemble's other upcoming concerts are: 3:30 p.m. Dec. 14 at Cathedral of the Incarnation at 2015 West End Ave., and 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at Andrew Price United Methodist Church at 2846 Lebanon Pike. http://www.musiccitybronze.org/

DEC. 9: The Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra will play a program of "fanfare and fate'' at 7 p.m. at Calvary United Methodist Church at 3701 Hillsboro Road.

DEC. 11: The Parthenon Recorder Concert of seasonal music from around the world will be 6-7 p.m. at the Parthenon in Centennial Park. 862-8431.

DEC. 11: The Tennessee State University Poinsettia open house, featuring 49 varieties of poinsettias, will be 9 a.m.–4 p.m. in the greenhouse on the main campus farm on Ed Temple Boulevard. Fill out a poinsettias survey and they'll give you a small one. 963-5320

DEC. 11: First Tennessee hosts Free Day at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. 244-3340 or http://www.fristcenter.org/

This is just a small sampling of all the fun things to do Ms. Cheap has listed.
Be sure to go here to see the whole list.

If you live in an area other than Nashville Tennessee, so a search in you local area newspaper. I have seen Ms. Cheap in other cities in the US. There may be an article in your local paper.

Google Search: Ms. Cheap's 2008 Christmas Guide

Hot Coupons! Get'em Whjle Their Hot!

BeCentsable has a list of great coupons that will help greatly in your Christmas shopping.



Here is a list...



$5 off $30 in your next purchase at Sears! (exp 1/31)



Bath & Body Works- ANY ITEM FREE with any $10 purchase (free item may be up to $13 value)(exp 11/30)



Yankee Candle- $10 off $25 purchase (exp 12/13)



Finish Line- $10 off $60 (exp 11/30)



The Limited- $30 off $100, or $20 off $60 (exp 11/23)



Office Depot- 15% off entire purchase (exp 11/22)



Family Christian Stores- Buy 1 Get 1 item 50% off & 20% off entire purchase (exp 11/23)



Hobby Lobby- 40% off any one regularly priced item (exp 11/15)



Target- Toy coupons (exp 11/28)



Dicks Sporting Goods- $15 off $75 purchase (exp 1/31)

I suggest printing these all out and have them on you when you go shopping...you never know what you will find and you'll wish you had the coupon.....:)

Thanks BeCentsable

Best Shopping,

Lynne