Christmas Cookie Cookies Puffs Food

PECAN PUFFS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°.
• Put on some Christmas music.
• Chop pecan in a food processor or by knife.
• Beat butter until soft with a mixer. Add sugar, vanilla, and pecans. Carefully add flour and blend well.
• Coat hands with flour. Use a teaspoon scoop or a teaspoon and shape into cherry-size and place on a parchment-lined or greased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 300° 15-20 minutes.
• (These should be light in color. Do not brown!) While cookies are still quite warm, roll them in confectioner's sugar. When cool, roll in confectioner's sugar again.

CHRISTMAS COOKIE / COOKIES PUFFS

Steps:

• Boil the two whole eggs, cool and peel.
• Remove the yolks and press through a seive so it is fine ground.
• Eat the cooked whites for your lunch or snack--!
• Cream shortening and 1/2 cup of the granulated sugar.
• Add beaten egg yolk.
• Cream very well.
• Add the sieved egg yolks and blend.
• Add the orange zest and blend.
• Sift the dry ingredients and the other 1/2 cup of granulated sugar together.
• Cut the dry ingredients into the creamed ingredients.
• Add the almonds.
• Shape into walnut size balls.
• Dip into slightly frothy egg white.
• Roll into extra granulated sugar.
• Bake in preheated oven 350°F for 16- 18 minutes, until golden on bottoms.
• Can dredge in icing powder if desired.

SOFT SUGAR COOKIE PUFFS

Steps:

• In a bowl, beat eggs; add cream and beat well. Beat in the sugar, butter and almond extract. Combine flour and baking powder; gradually add to sugar mixture. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle., On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with 2-1/2-in. cookie cutters dipped in flour. Place 1 in. apart on greased baking sheets. If desired, sprinkle with colored sugars, pressing sugar into dough if needed., Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.

GINETTI (ITALIAN PUFF COOKIES)

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan; set aside to cool to room temperature.
• Beat the sugar and eggs together until they are very thick.
• Stir in the lemon zest and melted butter.
• Sift the flour and baking powder; add to the egg mixture.
• Mix thoroughly.
• Drop by tsp 1 1/2 inches apart onto a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake in a 400 degree oven for 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile prepare glaze.
• Glaze while cookies are warm.
• Store in airtight container!

HOLIDAY MONSTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Position oven racks in the top and bottom thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl until evenly combined. Combine the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the vanilla, then add the eggs and yolks 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the flour mixture and beat on low until the dough just comes together. Add the chocolate candies, oats, pretzels, peppermint puffs and white chocolate chips and stir with a large spoon until evenly mixed.
• Scoop eight 1/3-cup portions of dough, roll into balls and divide between 2 baking sheets, spacing the cookies evenly apart. Press the dough balls into thick disks with the palm of your hand. Bake, rotating the baking sheets top to bottom and front to back halfway through, until the cookies are golden brown at the edges and barely brown in the very middle, 18 to 20 minutes. Cool the cookies on the baking sheets for 1 minute, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with the remaining dough.