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Cookies
What
you'll find on this page:
Peanut Blossoms
Triple
Layer Cookie Bars
Walnut Rollups (from the kitchen of Claudia Barney)
Cookie Squares
Mint Surprise Cookies
Chocolate Chip
Triple Layer Cookie Bars
Peanut
Blossoms
- 1 3/4
cup flour
- 1/2
C. sugar
- 1/2
C. firmly pack brown sugar
- 1 tsp.
baking soda
- 1/2
tsp. salt
- 1/2
C. solid shortening
- 1/2
C. peanut butter
- 2 T.
milk
- 1 tsp.
vanilla
- 1 egg
Combine
dry ingredient and set aside.Cream sugars, shortening, peanut
butter, milk and egg. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture.
Shape into balls and roll in additional sugar. Place on ungreased
cookie sheet in 375 degree oven for 10 minutes. Remove from
oven and top each with a candy kiss. Place back in oven for
one minute. Allow to cool slightly and remove from cookie sheet
to cooling rack. (Chocolate will harden as cookie cools.)
Walnut Rollups (from the kitchen of Claudia Barney)
- 1/2
lb. butter
- 1 pkg.
yeast
- 1 egg
- 3/4
C. sour cream (1/2 pint)
- 3 C.
flour
Place yeast
and sour cream together in bowl for 15 minutes. Add remaining
ingredients and mix well. Shape into a ball and refrigerate
overnight. Divide into 3 equal parts. Roll into rectangles on
board covered with confectioners sugar. Sprinke brown sugar
and chopped walnuts over dough and roll starting at the short
side. Place the rolls on a greased and floured baking sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
Cookie
Squares
- 2 T.
butter melted in 8x8" baking pan
- 8 butter
cookies crushed (approximately one cup)
- 6 oz.
chocolate bits
- 1 C.
chopped walnuts
- 3/4
C. sweetened condensed milk
Layer all
ingredients in baking pan on top of melted butter. Pour sweetened
condensed milk over top and bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
Cut into squares while slightly warm.
Mint
Surprise Cookies
- 3 C.
flour
- 1 tsp.
sugar
- 1/2
tsp. salt
- 1/2
C. butter softened
- 1 C.
sugar
- 1/2
C. brown sugar
- 2 unbeaten
eggs
- 2 T.
water
- 1 tsp.
vanilla
Mix flour,
sugar and salt; set aside. Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar.
Blend in eggs, water and vanilla. Add dry ingredients and mix
well. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours. Enclose a chocolate
mint wafer in about 1 T. of chilled dough. Place on a greased
cookie sheet. Top each with a walnut half. Bake at 375 degrees
for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.
Chocolate
Chip
Everyone's
favorite with a twist -Don't stop after adding the chocolate
chips, add some white chocolate chips as well. Walnuts are great,
but macadamian or pecans add a special touch. These can also
be baked in a 13 1/2 x 9" pan and cut into squares.
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Triple
Layer Cookie Bars
- 1/2
C. butter
- 1 -
1/2 C. graham cracker crumbs
- 7 oz.
flaked coconut (2-2/3 cups)
- 14 oz.
sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated)
- 12 oz.
chocolate chips
- 1/2
C. peanut butter
Melt butter
in 350 degree oven in 13x9" baking pan. Sprinkle graham
cracker crumbs over butter and top evenly with sweetened condensed
milk. Bake 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from
oven and set aside. Over low heat, melt chocolate chips with
peanut butter and spread evenly over hot coconut layer. Cool
30 minutes and place in refrigerator to chill thoroughly before
cutting into bars.
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