Buttery Christmas Trees on a Stick
1/2 butter, softened
1/2 C. butter flavored shortening
3/4 C. sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla or your favorite extract - I used almond
2 1/4 C flour
3/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
Popsicle sticks
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt, and then set aside.
Using an electric mixer, cream together butter and shortening. Add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add vanilla and egg; beat until well combined.
Gradually add flour mixture to the butter mixture until all is combined.
Load mixture into a cookie press fitted with a round cut-out or fill a plastic baggie with the cookie dough and snip a hole in one corner of the bag. Pipe the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet, forming a Christmas tree: 1 round cookie on top, 2 cookie balls on the 2nd line, 3 cookie balls on 3rd line and end with 4 cookie balls on the 4 line. Make sure the cookies touch but do not overlap. Do not crowd on the cookie sheet. Starting from the bottom, stick a Popsicle stick into the cookie dough way up into the cookie.
Bake for 7 to 8 minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned around edges. When the cookies have finished baking, allow them to cool on the cookie tray for 10 minutes so that they set up. Move to cooking racks to completely cool before icing.
Once cooled, ice with powdered sugar icing, if desired, using the recipe below. Decorate with candy sprinkles, colored sugar, etc.
Powdered Sugar Icing
2 cups powdered sugar (sifted)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla or whichever
extract you chose for your cookies
2 tablespoons milk
food coloring
Mix first 3 ingredients together until smooth and creamy. Divide icing into bowls if using more than one color. Tint icing with food coloring. Decorate cookies.
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About the author:
Tami Rose lives in North Carolina with her husband and 2 children. She is always on the lookout for fun, easy recipes that any
age group can make. She is the Assistant Administrator on the MomsMenu.com forums.
You can find her there under the username of "ajrsmom".
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Colossal Double Chocolate White Chip Cookies
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With 101 recipes, ranging from the familiar to the unique, to choose from, you are sure to find something that strikes your fancy. Although pictures for
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Recipe tried from cookbook:
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cups butter or margarine, softened
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup milk semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup white chips
1 cup chopped nuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, and baking soda. In a large bowl, cream together butter, granulated
sugar, and brown sugar. Beat eggs and vanilla extract into butter mixture. Gradually stir in flour mixture. Stir in milk chocolate chips, semi-sweet
chocolate chips, white chips, and nuts. Drop by level 1/4-cupfuls, about 2 inches apart, onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes or
until light golden brown. Allow cookies to cool for 2 minutes on baking sheets, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Makes about 2 dozen cookies.
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