Does anyone have an awesome recipe for great Holiday cookies?
I love to bake around the holidays but I am running out of ideas for something yummy and unique. Does anyone have a unique and tasty recipe for holiday cookies? Thanks!
Grandma’s Waffle Iron Cookies are a holiday favorite in my family and definitely qualify as "yummy and unique". I’ve yet to meet anyone outside of my family who has ever heard of these before but everyone loves them! Here’s the recipe, it makes quite a few cookies probably about 5 dozen. Also, a Belgian waffle iron (the kind that makes waffles with the really large holes) does not work for this recipe, you need a standard waffle iron.
Ingredients for cookies
4 squares semi-sweet bakers chocolate
2 sticks plus 2 tbsp margarine
1 1/2 c sugar
4 eggs
2 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
Ingredients for frosting
1/4 c margarine
1/3 c milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 squares semi-sweet bakers chocolate
2 1/2 c powdered sugar
M&Ms for decoration – we usually put two green and one red on each cookie to kind of look like holly.
Directions for cookies
Melt chocolate and margarine together in a small pan, stirring continuously. In a bowl combine sugar and eggs and mix bowl. Add chocolate mixture and stir well. Add flour and salt and stir well. Cook in waffle iron at medium low/light waffle setting. If the waffle iron does not have settings you will have to keep unplugging iron to control heat. Cook for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes, the cookies should easily lift out with fork. Place on cooling rack or on paper towels to cool.
Directions for frosting
Combine margarine, milk, and chocolate in a pan and melt stirring continuously. Remove from heat, add powdered sugar and vanilla and mix well. Frost cookies right away before frosting gets to thick, topping with M&Ms as you go.
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:45 am
Crescent rolls.
Buy the packaged crescent roll dough (about 4 canisters)
Lay the dough out and put a heaping tablespoon of apricot jelly at the thick end (you can also use any type of jelly you like)
roll the dough up as directed
egg wash them lightly and bake
When they come out dust with powdered sugar and enjoy!
References :
my mother’s cookie recipe
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:29 am
I have just posted the best tried and true shortbread cookie recipes.
Here is the recipe link:
http://cheapfamilymeals.info/2008/12/14/holiday-shortbread-cookies/
Happy Baking -Machelle at http://www.cheapfamilymeals.info
References :
http://www.cheapfamilymeals.info
http://cheapfamilymeals.info/2008/12/14/holiday-shortbread-cookies/
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:52 am
Grandma’s Waffle Iron Cookies are a holiday favorite in my family and definitely qualify as "yummy and unique". I’ve yet to meet anyone outside of my family who has ever heard of these before but everyone loves them! Here’s the recipe, it makes quite a few cookies probably about 5 dozen. Also, a Belgian waffle iron (the kind that makes waffles with the really large holes) does not work for this recipe, you need a standard waffle iron.
Ingredients for cookies
4 squares semi-sweet bakers chocolate
2 sticks plus 2 tbsp margarine
1 1/2 c sugar
4 eggs
2 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
Ingredients for frosting
1/4 c margarine
1/3 c milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 squares semi-sweet bakers chocolate
2 1/2 c powdered sugar
M&Ms for decoration – we usually put two green and one red on each cookie to kind of look like holly.
Directions for cookies
Melt chocolate and margarine together in a small pan, stirring continuously. In a bowl combine sugar and eggs and mix bowl. Add chocolate mixture and stir well. Add flour and salt and stir well. Cook in waffle iron at medium low/light waffle setting. If the waffle iron does not have settings you will have to keep unplugging iron to control heat. Cook for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes, the cookies should easily lift out with fork. Place on cooling rack or on paper towels to cool.
Directions for frosting
Combine margarine, milk, and chocolate in a pan and melt stirring continuously. Remove from heat, add powdered sugar and vanilla and mix well. Frost cookies right away before frosting gets to thick, topping with M&Ms as you go.
References :
personal experience