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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Holiday Cookie Recipe Exchange!

Happy Holidays to all of you! I love to bake during the holidays. It is a tradition in my family, I have great memories from when I was growing up. We had a schedule on the bulletin board so everyone knew what their jobs where for the baking process. We boxed them and passed them out to friends and family. I still do that with my daughter and I love to give out cookies to our friends. I am hoping you might share some recipes on your blogs so we can all try each others treats. I am going to start with cut-out sugar cookies. They do take a little extra work and time, but it is so worth it and these are delicious.

Sugar Cookies:
1 cup softened butter
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond extract
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp. baking soda

Mix together and form dough into a ball. Cover tightly and refrigerate for 2 or 3 hours to get it firm. I use a combination of powdered sugar and flour to roll them out in. I take a handful of dough and roll out and use my favorite cookie cutters. Keep the dough covered when you are rolling out the cookies. Don't let it dry out.
Place them on a cookie sheet and use colored sugar or sprinkles to decorate them.
Bake for 8-10 minutes until the bottoms are lightly browned


I love these cookies, they are so pretty in a gift box and they are so good and melt in your mouth. Sometimes(when I am patient enough) I leave them plain for baking and frost and decorate them. I use a sugar substitute as my husband is diabetic and they taste just as good.
God bless you all and go bake some cookies!
Anne

57 comments:

Al said...

Yes they look very pretty and thought of not touching or eating them. It will look nice on colorful boxes with pretty ribbons, Anne.

Thanks for sharing the recipe.

AL

SquirrelQueen said...

Those are so pretty, they would be great for gifts. They also make a pretty platter, I love the last photo. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Judy

The Adventures of the LLB Gang said...

Wonderful!! I am so looking forward to baking and giving baked goods this year!! Thanks for my first thing to work on!! One question...can these be frozen?? I tend to bake/freeze until I have a few different types of cookies together and then distribute!

Thanks so much!I will be getting a cookie recipe up in the next couple of days!!

JacksDad said...

Those cookies look great! Home-made cookies taste so much better than the store bought ones!

Lillian Robinson said...

Yum! Christmas cookies! I'll have to dig out my recipe for Pistachio cookies and send it to you. I nicknamed them lead-belly cookies. It's easy to eat too many!

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Unknown said...

Thanks for the recipe Anne--looks yummy and I'm bookmarking it for the holidays!!

Lillian Robinson said...

I just posted my recipe and put a link to this post. If you try them, don't blame me for your belly ache!

Happy Thanksgiving Anne

Lily

SquirrelQueen said...

Hi Anne,

Hope you holiday preparations are going well. Thanks so much for the kind words on the awards post. I am so glad we met here and I treasure our friendship. Your posts are always refreshing and uplifting.

Awards are so hard to give out and I have been trying to come up with some way to deal with them. I got the idea from one of your awards post and took it a step farther. So it was yours to begin with, I'll probably continue to write them up like this.

I posted a cookie recipe last night on The Road to Here, I had hoped to do it with photos but ran out of time.

Wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving. Give sassy Sasha a hug from me.

Love,
Judy

Betty Manousos said...

Ann, I have a present for you on my blog.
Please stop by and pickit up.
hugs hugs love ya.

Honeygo Beasley said...

I'm participating in a cookie exchange this year and found this post very interesting - your Christmas tree cookies are adorable, and I bet they taste good. I'm doing shortbread cookies with cranberries and pecans.

prashant said...

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Ally said...

Wow these look yummy! I bought everything to make some gingerbread cookies myself :)

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Jessica said...

Wow they look jummy :D

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Jessica said...

Wow they look jummy :D

J
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one-more-day said...

OMG! They look so yummy! Now I want cookies.

SquirrelQueen said...

Hi Anne,
Just checking in again to see how you are doing, I keep hoping you will have left a comment or something to let us know all is well. You are missed.
Judy

Tweedles -- that's me said...

I miss you.
Please let us know your okay
love
tweedles

starcakeastrology.blogspot.com said...

i want to make these!

SquirrelQueen said...

You are missed.
Judy

Simply Me said...

cute blog- new follower :)

Anonymous said...

Don't stop posting such themes. I love to read stories like that. BTW add more pics :)

Culture Served Raw said...

Anne have you published your cookbook yet! Delightful creations. Catching up on the blogs I've missed so many are dark and bitter (maybe I follow too many writers). What a beautiful feeling it is to return here. Indeed Comforting to the Soul

Val

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Francis Wossom said...

They look superb! I'll try to bake those this xmas. I haven't had a chance to eat homemade in years.

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Sweet William The Scot said...

Oh I bet those cookies are yummy on the tummy. They look so festive. Lee bakes almond crescent cookies and dusts them in powdered sugar for the holidays.
Thanks for being a friend
Sweet William The Scot

Asta said...

Dawling Sasha
The fwagwance of baking filling the house makes the holidays wawm and speshul. Yoow cookies look bootiful and I'm shoowe yoow holidays wewe equally bootiful
I wish you a wondewful New Yeaw full of love and health and wondewful times
Soochie kisses
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Sketching with Dogs said...

Oh they look so gorgeous, we love the sprinkles you have used. Thank you for sharing your recipe, we are always looking for new ones for Christmas.
Dip Bridge and Elliot x

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