With Valentine’s day approaching, I am trying to make as many different varieties of cutout cookies using my heart cookie cutters. These use crisco in the cookies and you can leave them plain, sprinkle sugar on top before baking or frost them, after they are completely cooled,with a simple vanilla frosting.
1 1/3 cups crisco
1 1/2 ,cups sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tbs plus 1 tsp milk
2 cups flour
11/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Sprinkle a clean, flat surface with flour. Cut out cookies and stagger on prepared sheet.
While trapsing through the grocery store today, I stumbled up JIF chocolate peanut butter. So I used it in one of my peanut butter cookie recipes and topped them with melted hershey kisses.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also, firmly packed your brown sugar into your measuring cup. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 cup crisco
1 1/2 cups chocolate peanut butter
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
4 tbs milk
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup bread flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Directions- preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In a bowl, cream crisco, chocolate peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar. Mix in eggs, milk and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Scoop our 1/4 cups of dough and roll tops in extra granulated sugar. Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 10 minutes, no longer. Cool completely. Top cookies with melted hersey kisses.
For my last Christmas cutout cookies recipe for this season, here are the traditional sugar cookies. I made most of them into cookie sandwiches so people can actually tell what they are.
This is a recipe from a family friend, one that brings back so many wonderful memories. I used a traditional buttercream frosting recipe.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Make sure you flour your surface enough to roll out the dough and sprinkle flour in your cookie cutters too. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 1/2 cups crisco
1 1/3 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
4 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
Directions – in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar. Blend in eggs well. Add vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. You can chill the door in a covered container for a few hours if you want. Or bake them right away. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees, and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Flour a flat surface with flour. Roll dough to desired thickness and cut. Place on cookie sheet. Bake 7 to 8 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
Buttercream frosting/filling ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar (scooped from container into your measuring cup so you get the right amount)
Milk
In a bowl, cream butter and vanilla. Carefully blend in powdered sugar, a cup at a time. Add enough milk to get consistency you want. Frost or fill sandwich cookies.
I stood for the entire second half of the Bills game, something I had not done in a long, long time. It alleviated some of the Fandom stress for me, and we were playing well while I stood, so I did not sit down until the game ended. We got a much needed win, so i asked Rob what the victory treats should be and he said triple chip cookies. They are a chocolate chip cookie dough with an instant vanilla pudding mix added and uses milk chocolate, white chocolate and semisweet chocolate chips. I was in a bit of a rush and didn’t have time to chill the dough, but they stayed niced and puffy anyways.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. And preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup butter, cold and cubed into small squares
1/2 cup butter crisco (regular crisco also works)
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1 box vanilla instant pudding mix, 3.4 oz
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups flour
2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup milk chocolate chips
2/3 cup white chocolate chips
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. In a bowl, cream butter, butter crisco and brown sugar. Add pudding mix. Mix in eggs, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Fold in flour. Blend in chips. Scoop out 1/4 cup dough. Stagger on cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 11 minutes, no longer. Remove from oven. Tops may look gushy, but cookies will firm up as they cool. Cool completely. Store in covered container.
We had one last bag of leftover candy from Halloween – a bag of plain m&ms. so I thought “why not bake with them?”
Note the colors in the middle – red and blue! Go Bills!
Instead of the usual chocolate chip cookie recipe, I went with oatmeal, for something different.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Chill the individual doughs for a few hours. And preheat your oven before baking
Ingredients list
8 tbs butter, softened
2 1/2 tbs crisco
1 cup plus 2 tbs plus 2 tsp brown sugar, firmly packed
1 egg
1 tbs honey
1 tbs vanilla
1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups oats (I used quick pats)
1 cup m&ms
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco and brown sugar. Add egg, honey and vanilla. Blend in flour, salt and oats. Mix in m&ms. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Chill a few hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet. flatten cookies to desired thickness.
Part 2 of today’s cinnamon related treats – snickerdoodles. They are remarkably like churros. A soft sugar cookie with cinnamon added to the batter and cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag so you get the right amount. I think i would chill the dough before baking next time, so they spread less. And, preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1/2 cup crisco
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 cups plus 2 tbs flour
1 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Cinnamon sugar
Directions – in a bowl, cream crisco and sugar. Add egg. Blend in dry ingredients. Add a tbs or 2 of water if dough seems too dry. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. Chill a few hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
I thought treats were in order today – for our hard working MLB crew who worked that 18 inning world series game last night and is right back at it for game 4 tonight, plus, the Frozen frenzy on ESPN with all teams playing. In addition to the fall classic, i will be focused in on the Sabres game!
This dough does not need chilling. Cookies stay puffy, as you can see.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. And preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
1 cup crisco or butter flavor crisco
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Hershey kisses
Directions – preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. In a bowl, cream butter crisco, sugar, brown sugar and peanut butter. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. I used one of my cookie scoops.
Roll tops in sugar, if you want. Stagger on prepared cookie sheets.
Bake 9 to 11 minutes, no longer. Gently press unwrapped kisses on top. Cool completely.
This is the sugar cookierecipe I use for all my holiday cutout cookies – halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, football ( i know football is not a holiday but if i have cookie cutters for something, it is a holiday for me) This recipe is from a friend of my family. They bring back a lot of wonderful memories of baking with my mom when I was younger. And these were my dad’s favorite cookies and he loved the dough too!
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also, preheat your oven to 350 degrees before baking.
Ingredients list
1 1/2 cups crisco
1 1/3 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tbs vanilla
4 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
A plethora of pumpkins!
Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees. in a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Slowly blend in dry ingredients. Sprinkle flour on your countertop and roll out dough to desired thickness. Cut out cookies. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet. Bake 8 minutes, no longer. Cool completely.
A gaggle of ghosts
Frosting ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
3 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 to 3 tbs heavy cream (depending on consistency you want)
Food coloring or sprinkles
In a bowl, combine ingredients. Frost cookies and sprinkle with sprinkles. Store in covered container.
Whew! That was a very stressful Bills win today! But a win is a win and worthy of victory treats!
I feel like I haven’t made stuffed cookies in a while, so I decided to whip some up. These are a cookies and cream cookies, with crushed oreos and milk chocolate chips stuffed with brownies.
You can use your favorite brownie recipe or a mix for these. After they are completely cooled, I recommend cutting them in squares and putting them in the fridge.
When baking the cookies – remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Also, after assembling the cookie dough stuffed with a brownie, chill the doughs a few hours. And, preheat your oven before baking.
Ingredients list
3/4 cup crisco
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed into measuring cup
1/4 cup plus 2 tbs sugar
1 egg
2 yolks
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups plus 2 tbs flour
1 cup plus 2 tbs cake flour
2 tsp cornstarch
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
15 oreos, chopped into pieces
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Brownie squares
Directions – in a bowl, cream crisco, brown sugar and sugar. Blend in egg, yolks and vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. Fold in chopped oreos and chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough.
Divide in two pieces and flatten each.
Top with a brownie square
Place other flattened half on top
Seal edges, completely covering brownie. Chill a few hours. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies on sheet.
Another win in the books for the Bills. One worthy of not one, but two victory treats. These are a cookie version of little debbie cosmic brownies, one of my all time favorite treats as a kid. instead of a ganache like topping, I went with a fudge frosting topping. Not sure if love this frosting. I may try a different chocolate frosting next time.
Remember to scoop your flour from your flour bag into your measuring cup so you get the right amount. Chill your dough for a few hours and preheat your oven before baking so it gets to the right temperature.
Ingredients list
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup crisco
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1/4 cup plus 2 tbs unsweetened baking cocoa
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Directions – in a bowl, cream butter, crisco and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Chill a few hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Stagger cookies.
Bake 11 to 16 minutes. Cool completely.
Frosting ingredients
1 1/3 cups chocolate chips
2/3 cup of butter
3/4 cup heavy cream
1 powdered sugar
In a pot, over low-medium heat, combine ingredients, heat and stir until butter is melted. Put in fridge until it is a spreadable consistency. Frost cookies. Top w m&ms.
cookies by christine 