Briana’s Peanut Butter Balls

Briana usually makes 1/2 recipe which makes 40-50 balls. They tasted just like a peanut butter cup! YUM!

Briana’s Peanut Butter Balls

2 sticks butter melted
1 cup flake coconut
1 tsp vanilla
1 lb powdered sugar
2 cups graham crackers
1 1/2 cup chunky peanut butter

Mix well, make into small balls and freeze.

1 12 oz package chocolate chips
1 stick paraffin (really, it’s ok. It makes them shiny and keeps them from getting white and cloudy like some chocolate does.)

melt in top of double boiler.  Dip in frozen balls and cool on wax paper.  A teaspoon works well as a dipping tool, or I skewer the ball with a bamboo skewer and dip.

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Lizzie’s Shortbread Cookies

Lizzie makes these cookies every year as presents for friends and family. They are very pretty in a cellophane bag with a nice ribbon and very easy to make.

Lizzie’s Shortbread Cookies

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

In the bowl of your electric mixer cream the butter with the sugar till smooth. Add vanilla. Gently stir in the flour and the salt. Flatten the dough into a disc, wrap in plastic wrap and chill for an hour. Continue reading

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Colleen’s Spritz

One year we went house to house learning how to make a special cookie from each family in our troop. Colleen taught us how to make Spritz cookies. They were fun because you got to squeeze them out of a cookie dough gun and pick different plates to make different shaped cookies.

Colleen’s Spritz Cookies

1 cup butter softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (do not use self rising flour in this recipe)
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
1 tsp. almond or vanilla extract

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix butter and sugar. Mix in remaining ingredients. Place dough in cookie press; form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until set but not brown, 6 to 9 minutes. Immediately remove from cookie sheet. Makes about 5 dozen cookies.

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Colleen’s Snickerdoodles

Colleen and her dad enjoy baking. He has done lots of gourmet cooking and Colleen has learned a lot from him. When we went to her house she taught us how to make her favorite Snickerdoodles!

Colleen’s Snickerdoodles

2 sticks butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 cup all purpose flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt Continue reading

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Holly Berry Bars

Another simple variation on the delicious Magic Cookie Bars. This one has a little dried cranberry to give it a little Christmas color.

Holly Berry Bars

Contributed by Phyllis at Studio 627

½ cup butter Continue reading

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Lemon Butter Pound Cake Bars

These bars are easy to make,  lemony and so pretty on a tray of goodies! Lovely with tea and they’ll be a big hit at a cookie exchange party.

Contributed by Mindy  Merrell

Lemon Butter Pound Cake Bars

1 cup butter Continue reading

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Double Chocolate Magic Cookie Bars

These are really easy to make and so chewy and delicious you’ll want to make them again and again! They’re also called 5 layer bars when made with walnuts. Our S’mores cookies are a variation of this treat.

Contributed by Dianne Lamb

Double Chocolate Magic Cookie Bars

½ cup butter

1 ½ cup graham cracker crumbs Continue reading

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Mint Chocolate Meringues

By Barb Ford
“It’s going to be the very best Christmas ever—we’ll have all the traditional Christmas goodies and we’ll die of exhaustion in the process.” Well, think about it.  What really made Christmas great when you were a child?  Do you reallyremember what you got for Christmas when you were five, ten or twelve?Of course you don’t remember the exact presents you got.  But you likely remember some Christmas cookie you loved that your mother made every year.  Maybe you were even lucky enough to live in one of those families who set aside a special baking weekend and you all made cookies together.  Now, years later, you may be thinking that’s too hard if you’re working and trying to get ready for Christmas. Continue reading
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Original Girl Scout Cookies

There are many stories about how the tradition of selling GS cookies first got started and just as many recipes. I’ve tried several and this one is the best tasting and easiest to make. It’s a crispy, buttery, roll out cookie that can be cut into shapes, like the famous trefoil. It’s not too sweet and I’m sure our founder would have loved having several with a cup of tea.

Original Girl Scout Cookies

We found this recipe on the internet and it claims to be the “original recipe” from 1927. Continue reading

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S’mores Cookies

This is a delicious variation on the 5 layer bar cookie. Graham cracker crust, chocolate, caramel, nuts and marshmallow. How can you go wrong with ingredients like that?!

S’mores Bar Cookies

This is the classic 5 layer bar, that you can find on the sweetened condensed can, with the substitution of mini marshmallows for the coconut. Continue reading

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