Sweetheart Cookie Puzzle

 

Sweetheart Cookie Puzzle

Description
This is the recipe of love. Make your sweetheart a sweetheart cookie. Adding M & M's to this recipe is one delicious treat.

Ingredients

• 1 cup margarine, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cup rolled oats, uncooked
• 1 1/4 cup unbleached flour
• 2 cup M&Ms. plain chocolate candy

Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Lightly spray 2 baking sheets with cooking spray; set aside.
3. In a mixing bowl, combine margarine, sugar, and vanilla.
4. In another mixing bowl, combine oats and flour.
5. Mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients just until moistened.
6. Divide dough in half.
7. Pat each half of dough into a heart shape about 1/4" thick on prepared baking sheets.
8. To decorate, gently press M&M's into dough in a pattern or phrase of your choice.
9. With a sharp knife, cut through dough to form 10 random shapes.
10. Do not separate.
11. Bake for 18 minutes or until lightly browned.
12. Carefully cut through pieces again to separate.
13. Cool 5 minutes on baking sheet.
14. Remove and cool completely on wire rack.
15. NOTES : The serving size depends on how big you decide to cut out the shapes.
16. This recipe makes two 10" heart shaped cookie puzzles.

Soft Sugar Cookies

Soft Sugar Cookies

Description
These quick and easy sugar cookies taste amazing plain or with an added candy. This recipe calls for  no additional ingredients, but you can still add them on your own.

Ingredients

• 2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening such as Crisco
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup buttermilk or 1 cup plain yogurt

Instructions
1. Cream together, sugar, margarine, Crisco, eggs and vanilla.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda.
3. Add the buttermilk alternating dry ingredients with the buttermilk.
4. Drop on well-greased sheets, sprinkle with sugar and bake 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees F.

Traditional Rolled Sugar Cookies

Traditional Rolled Sugar Cookies

Description
Sugar cookies are Christmas favorites; decorate these with festive holiday colors. The buttery, creamy
flavor of traditional sugar cookies is wonderfully offset by this recipe’s addition of zesty grated lemon
peel.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• water
• 2 large egg yolks
• food coloring

Instructions

Cookies
1. Cream butter in large mixer bowl.
2. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy.
3. Beat in egg, lemon peel and vanilla until well blended.
4. Gradually mix in flour and salt until well blended.
5. Beat in water, a few drops at a time, only until dough starts to come away from sides of bowl.
6. Shape dough into large flat disk; wrap and refrigerate 2 to 3 hours.
7. Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
8. Roll dough on lightly floured surface to 1/8-inch thickness.
9. Cut with cookie cutters dipped in flour.
10. Place on buttered cookie sheets.
11. Paint with edible tempera color, if desired (recipe below).
12. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until cookies begin to brown around edges.
13. Carefully remove from cookie sheets.
14. Cool completely on wire racks.

Edible Tempera Color
1. Lightly beat eggs yolks and divide evenly among 5 small containers.
2. Use liquid food coloring (adding a few drops at a time) to color each mixture as desired.
3. Apply colors with a small clean paintbrush before baking cookies.

Notes
If you prefer not to paint your cookies, simply sprinkle with colored sugar before baking.