Christmas Cookie Recipe Exchange

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My grandmother, bless her heart, did up a cookbook for all of us with

her favourite recipes including a section on Christmas baking that she

did every year. Its my bible this time of year. Here’s what I’ll

likely make:

 

Cherry Surprises

(not a cookie, but fingerfood sized sweet, so I included it. This is

REALLY sweet, but fast, easy and yummy)

 

½ cup butter or margarine (room temperature)

1 ¾ cup icing sugar

1 tsp orange flavouring

1 ½ cup coconut

3 oz cherry halves

½ cup graham crumbs

 

Directions: Mix together butter, sugar, flavouring and coconut. Roll

around cherry halves. Roll in graham crumbs.

These freeze very well, so can be made well in advance

 

Shortbread

(what Christmas is complete without shortbread?)

 

1 cup butter (NOT margarine)

½ cup granulated sugar

1 ¾ cup all purpose flour

 

Mix with bastry blender or nahds until nice and smooth. Roll on a

floured board to desired thickness. Cut into desired shape and top with

a cherry half if desired. Bake at 250F until very light golden colour.

 

 

Viennese Cresents

(These are my absolute favourites – not terribly sweet, deliciously

nutty)

 

1 cup butter

½ cup granulated sugar

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup of ground nutmeats (I use hazelnuts, or filberts)

 

Mix all ingredients together and knead well. Shake into crescents about

1 inch long. Bake 300F on an ungreased cookie sheet until light golden

brown.

 

Mexican Wedding Cakes

(similar to the crescent, also yummy)

 

1 cup butter

½ cup granulated sugar

½ tsp salt

1 tsp almond extract or 2 tsp vanilla extract (I prefer almond)

2 cups sifted all purpose flour

1 – 2 cups finely ground almonds

icing sugar

 

Knead all ingredients together until nice and smooth. Shape into small

balls about ½ to 1 inch wide. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350F

for 12 minutes or until light golden colour. Roll in icing sugar while

still warm.

 

 

Enjoy! I’m off to start baking

 

--

Sherri

 

They used dogs. They used probes. They used cardio plate crossoffs.

They used teepers. They used bribery. They used stick tites. They

used intimidation. They used torment. They used torture. They used

finks. They used cops. They used search and seizure. They used

fallaron. They used betterment incentives. They used finger prints.

They used the bertillion system. They used cunning. They used guile.

They used treachery. They used Raoul-Mitgong but he wasn't much help.

They used applied physics. They used techniques of criminology. And

what the hell, they caught him. (Harlan Ellison, " Repent, Harlequin,

said the Tick-Tock Man " )