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1 cup butter flavored shortening

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 cup oil

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. vanilla

5 cups all-purpose flour

2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp cream of tartar

sugar for coating

small red and green gumdrops (bell shaped)

Cream together shortening, sugar, eggs, oil, salt and vanilla. Sift all dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Roll into small one-inch balls and roll in sugar. Press one gumdrop in center of each cookie. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Should make close to 100 cookies.

Christmas cookies are generally made from a basic sugar cookie recipe. You can google or seach yahoo for tons of variations. Joseph Hall's blog explains the science of sugar cookie dough and gives what reads like a killer recipe as well. I don't like sugar cookies, but the butter to sugar to flour ratio in his recipe is making me think twice...Yum.

1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened

2 cups granulated sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

The directions and how to work with the dough are at the blog...

http://blog.josephhall.com/2006/11/sugar-cookies.h...

"Cherry Snowballs" - 2 1/2 dozen

1 cup butter; softened

1/2 cup confectioners' sugar

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 (6 oz.) jar maraschino cherries without stems; drained and halved

Additional confectioners' sugar

In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar; gradually add flour. Shape a tablespoon around each cherry, forming a ball. Place 1" apart on ungreased baking sheets.

Bake at 325* for 18-20 minutes or until bottoms are browned. Roll warm cookies in confectioners' sugar; cool on wire racks.

No Bake Cookies

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup milk

1 stick butter

1/2 cup peanut butter

4 tablespoons cocoa

3 cups oats

1 teaspoon vanilla

Boil sugar, milk, butter and cocoa for 1 1/2 minutes (until all the sugar is melted).

Start timing when mixture comes to a boil.

Remove from heat.

Add peanut butter, oats, and vanilla.

Mix until blended.

Drop by spoon fulls onto waxed paper to set and cool.

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Corn Flake Candy

1 2/3 cup Corn Syrup

1 2/3 cup sugar

Boil until sugar is melted, remove from heat, then add

1 2/3 tablespoon vanilla

2 1/2 cup peanut butter

In a big pan that is coated with butter, put in 10 cups Corn Flakes.

Pour the above mixture over the Corn Flakes and stir with a large spoon that is coated with butter.

Stir until Corn Flakes are covered. Spoon out on wax paper and let cool.

might this be it? Pfefferneusse a million/2 c Molasses a million/2 c Lt. corn syrup a million/4 lb Lt. brown sugar a million/2 c Margarine or butter a million/2 ts Cinnamon a million/2 ts overwhelmed anise seed a million/4 ts Allspice a million/4 ts Black pepper a million Egg, properly overwhelmed 3 a million/2 c Flour a million a million/2 ts Baking powder a million a million/2 ts Baking powder In a small saucepan over low warmth, blend first 4 components till mixed. get rid of from warmth and permit to kick back, then stir in spices. Stir in egg. Pour into very super non-steel bowl. Sift mutually dry components and upload, in fourths, to liquid combination, mixing properly after each and each addition. (Dough would be VERY stiff.) cover dough with plastic wrap and permit to stand over night at room temperature to combination flavours. Preheat oven to 350. shape dough right into a million inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake approximately 12 minutes, or till bottoms are gently browned. Cool momentarily on sheets, then get rid of to cooling rack. (Cookies will persist with baking sheet, so use an business enterprise hand on the spatula while removing.) whilst nonetheless warm, shake in powdered sugar to coat. (I used a pair of million/2 C. of sugar for the completed batch.) keep in lined packing containers with piece of orange or apple peel for numerous weeks to mellow. (substitute peel each 0.33 day or so.) Makes 80 4-106 cookies, counting on length. (I have been given 106 this three hundred and sixty 5 days. final three hundred and sixty 5 days, it replaced into in undemanding terms ninety 8. in case you finally end up with decrease than 80 4, the balls of dough are too super and the centers won't bake with the aid of.) This replaced into my grandmother's recipe. Theoretically, that's the way those cookies are made interior the Baden area of Germany, this is slightly diverse from different variations of those cookies. Oh, and that i normally enable them to mellow 3-4 weeks till now ingesting. do not keep them in tins or glass -- they finally end up with an weird and wonderful flavor. Stoneware or ceramic storage packing containers look to artwork superb.

I'd use this one cause you can do a lot with it.

All Occasion Cookies

1 pound (4 sticks) butter or margarine, divided (do not use vegetable oil spreads)

2 3/4 Cups (11 oz.) Flour

1 pkg. White Cake Mix

1.Preheat oven to 350º degrees. In small batter bowl, microwave 2 sticks of the butter on HIGH 1 minute or until melted. Using Paring Knife, slice remaining butter into 1/2-inch pieces; add to melted butter, tossing to coat using Classic Scraper. Allow butter to stand 3-5 minutes or until softened.

2.Meanwhile, accurately measure flour into large Colander Bowl by lightly spooning flour into Adjustable Scoop. Level off surface by scraping off additional flour using Handy Scraper. (For most consistent results, use Kitchen Scale to weigh flour.) Add cake mix to flour; blend well using Stainless Steel Whisk to break up any large lumps. Using stainless Steel Whisk, whisk butter until smooth and free of lumps. If necessary, return butter to microwave for 10-20 seconds or until creamy and pourable. Do NOT melt completely. Pour butter, all at once, into dry ingredients; thoroughly scrape butter from Batter Bowl using Classic Scraper. Using Bamboo Spoon, mix until dry ingredients are incorporated and dough is smooth. (If dough is too stiff to stir, knead until smooth by hand on Cutting Board.) Shape dough, bake and decorate as desired.

Flavor Variations:

•Chocolate: Substitute one package devil's food cake mix for the white

cake mix. Add flour and butter as recipe directs.

•Spice: Substitute one package yellow cake mix for white cake mix. Add 1

Tablespoon Pantry Cinnamon Plus Spice Blend. Add flour and butter as

recipe directs.

•Peanut Butter: Substitute one package yellow cake mix for the white

cake mix. Add flour as directed. Whisk 2/3 Cup Peanut Butter into softened butter until smooth; add to dry ingredients as recipe directs.

This dough is versatile, can spread cream cheese on top, and add pie filling.

You can use this for drop cookies, cookie press cookies or my favorite roll out, cut into flowers. On half of them use a small circle and cut out the center. After cooled, spread full cookie with jelly of your choice and top with one with a hole. Then you put powdered sugar on it and it’s like a linzer tart. You can add nuts, chips, candy bars cut up… it’s really versatile.

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