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My recipe is a bit different than Buttercup's. Here's mine if you want to compare:
1/3 cup sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon
½ cup butter (no substitutes), softened
3 oz cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
½ tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 2/3 cups flour
1 tbsp butter (no substitutes), melted
For cinnamon-sugar mixture, combine the 1/3 cup sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl; set aside.
Beat the ½ cup butter and the cream cheese in a large mixing bowl with an electic mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add the 1 cup sugar and baking powder; beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in egg and vanilla until combined. Beat in as much of the flour you can with the mixer. Stir in remaining flour with a wooden spoon.
Divide dough in half. Roll half of dough between 2 sheets of waxed paper into an 11x8 inch rectangle. Remove top sheet of waxed paper. Brush dough with ½ of the melted butter. Sprinkle with 2 tbsp of the cinnamon sugar mixture.
Starting from one of the short sides, roll up dough jelly-roll style, removing waxed paper as you roll. Seal edges. Repeat with remaining dough, butter and 2 tbsp of the cinnamon sugar mixture. Roll each log in remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture. Wrap each log in plastic wrap or waxed paper. Chill about 4 hours or until firm.
Using a sharp knife, cut dough into ¼ inch slices. Place sliced 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake in a 375 oven for 8 – 10 minutes or until edges are firm. Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute. Transfer to wire racks to cool. Makes about 60.
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup margarine or butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs
2 3/4 cups flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
Heat oven to 400F. Mix 1 1/2 cups sugar, margarine, shortening, and eggs. stir in flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Shape into 1 1/4 inch balls.
Mix 1 1/2 sugar and cinamon. Roll balls in mixture. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8-10 minutes or until set; cool. Make about 4 dozen cookies.
Sounds fascinating!
Look at this website for great ideas...www.kraftcanada.com
Last year I was lucky enough to get the day before Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off from work. I went to work like a mad woman and started at 9:00am and finished around 2:00am Christmas Eve. After about 10 pounds of flour and 5 pounds of butter I produced something like 45 dozen cookies which I divided into little Christmas tins and gave out to my neighbours and casual friends. I had so much left over.
What a wonderful aroma my house had. I made everything from oatmeal, chocolate chip, toffee bars, shortbread, lemon bars, peanut butter with chocolate kisses, sugar, ginger bread and dried cranberry and orange biscuits.
I don't think I'll repeat myself again this year. (as I made good use of my kitchen aid mix-master) but I hated the cleaning up part.
Everyone adored their gifts. Something about the love and time it takes to give/receive something homemade means so much.
...."barking in our house usually starts in Mid September. My husband is the first one to start barking when he checks the bankbook. Sometimes he'll get up in the middle of the night and start barking. I love Christmas, but all of that barking really gets to me and I end up eating too much chocolate bark. I realize sometimes I go overboard at Christmas, so this year I'm making alot of my gifts. Picture frames made out of bark!!
What a lark that I have so many trees on my property!!!
I always make shortbread - same recipe as my Mum has always made, and give it away to friends and family (kind of like Norm). I make pans and pans of it. I can't even think how my shopping cart must look to other people at Christmas time. "Would you like some butter with your butter, Maam?"
I usually make gingersnaps, shortbread, nutmeg logs (my favorite), biscotti, and something chocolatey.
I am also going to try Paula's recipe for expresso crinkles since they sound really good!
Hi,
I change up the cookies I make every year but I always make white chocolate cranberry bark. I just mix the best white chocolate I can find with dried cranberries and spread it on a cookie sheet and let it harden (in fridge). Then break it up by hand. People seem to love it..
Hi...wow they sound wonderful...do you think you could share the recipe ? Thank you.
I make fruit cakes, small ones from an old recipe of my Mom's. It is chocked full of fruit and nuts. I give them as gifts to hard to buy for people. My Mom being one .LOL
I make between 32-40 pans of cinnamon buns each year...A double recipe makes about 8 pans (of 8). It has been a traditional gift for family and friends for over 20 years now. It started when they decided to pick names for gifts and I felt bad not being able to give everyone something. It is nice to hear people say "hey, great buns, Norm! ;) I also make Belgium cookies with Christmas colours -usually a wreath decoration on them, shortbreads and last year I tried the mini-kisses wrapped in dough. They are so good. They look very cute in tiny Christmas (muffin) cups. I am also responsible for the "Christmas Pudding" which has now evolved into a plain carrot cake soaked in a warm "hard sauce". Christmas eve is spent at my SIL's with over 60 people and my job is to make 2 large pans of scalloped potatoes (20lb) for a buffet style late dinner. :D ....Yikes ..it is just over 3 months away.
You're freaking me out here!
I always make cheesecakes - my specialty. Plus brownies - they freeze well, fudge, tollhouse cookies - also for freezing! I will be doing cookies with DD this year with the cutters. Not sure of a recipe yet. I usually do something new as well, just to try something else.
I usually make 1 or 2 varieties of biscotti, snickerdoodles, fudge, espresso crinkles and either a butter or pecan tart.
I usually try to make one new recipe each year as well, just for fun.