Lots of Baking today…

Dec 23, 2006

I made the girls Christ­mas cook­ies and will be mak­ing choco­late mint brown­ies today. I thought I would share a few pho­tos of my fin­ished cook­ies as well as the recipes. Hope you are all hav­ing a won­der­ful hol­i­day sea­son with friends and fam­ily. Merry Christ­mas!

Chewie Choco­late Christ­mas Cookies

1 pkg. dev­ils food cake mix (18.25 oz.)

1 small pkg. semi-sweet choco­late chips

1/2 c. Crisco

2 large eggs

1 tbls water

1/2 cup pow­dered sugar

Com­bine 1st 5 ingre­di­ents in a large bowl, stir­ring until smooth. Shape dough into 1 in. balls and roll in pow­dered sugar. Place 2 in. apart on lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake at 375 for 10 min. Remove from oven.Cool 10 min. on cookie sheets. Place on wire racks to cool completely.

Pecan Sandies with a choco­late center

1 c. butter

4 tbls pow­dered sugar

2 tsp vanilla

1 tbls cold water

2 c flour

1 c finely chopped pecans

Brach’s Choco­late Stars

Red and Green Sugar

Cream but­ter and sugar. Add vanilla and water. Stir in flour and then nuts. Form a ball with cookie mix­ture and place a choco­late star in the cen­ter, make sure the choco­late is com­pletely wrapped with the cookie mix­ture. Bake on ungreased bak­ing sheet at 400 for 9 min. or until lightly browned, imme­di­ately roll in pow­dered sugar while cook­ies are still warm.

Red Devil Cook­ies with a Her­shey Kiss on top

Red Devil Cake Mix

2 large eggs

1/2 cup oil

1 Bag of Her­shey Kisses

Mix ingre­di­ents together in a large bowl, place a tbls sized amount of cookie mix­ture on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 min. Remove from oven and imme­di­ately place a her­shey kiss in the cen­ter of each cookie. Place on cool­ing racks.

Pep­per­mint Bark

2 reg­u­lar sized bags of White Choco­late Morsels

24 candy canes (red and green striped)

parch­ment paper

Unwrap and crush candy canes. (Make sure to leave some larger pieces of candy canes to go on top) Melt two bags of white choco­late morsels in microwave for 3 min. Stir melted choco­late and poor half of the crushed candy canes into the melted choco­late and stir again. Poor mix­ture onto parch­ment paper, spread mix­ture to the thick­ness you pre­fer. I like mine thin. Once choco­late is smoothed out, poor remain­ing mix­ture on top and gen­tly push in larger pieces of candy canes. Let cool until candy is hard. Cut or break into pieces and enjoy!