Cookie Recipes - 2015

Coconut Macaroons

Recipe
14oz bag unsweetened shredded coconut
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp almond extract
1 cup chocolate chips

Mix all ingredients together. spoon out cookie dough batter in 1-1/2 Tbsp portions on a baking sheet. Bake for 10 min or until golden brown.

Scotcharoos

 
Chex Scotcharoos 
Ingredients 
1 cup light corn syrup 
1 cup sugar 
1½ cups peanut butter 
6 cups Chex cereal 
1 cups semi sweet chocolate chips 
1 cups butterscotch chips 
¼ cup peanut butter 
½ tsp vanilla Instructions 

Combine corn syrup and sugar in a small pan over medium heat. Remove from heat as soon as it starts boiling and stir in 1½ cups of peanut butter. Pour over your 6 cups of cereal and fold together. Drop spoonfuls onto wax paper to let them set. Melt together chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, ¼ cup of peanut butter and vanilla in a microwave, stirring at 10 second intervals so that chocolate does not burn. Pour over cereal. Allow to cool completely before eating.

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

 
Recipe soon to come...

Orange Cranberry Shortbread Cookies

Recipe link
http://www.momontimeout.com/2015/11/cranberry-orange-shortbread-cookies-recipe/

Ande's Creame de Menthe Chunk Cookies

Recipe

Strawberry Thumbprint Cookies with Lemon Drizzle

Recipe link
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/butter-and-jam-thumbprints-recipe2.html

For the Lemon Drizzle
Use about a tablespoon of cream cheese, a teaspoon of lemon juice, and warm it a few seconds in the microwave. Then add enough powdered sugar to make it a drizzling consistency. If too thick, add a couple drops of water.

French Cookies

 
Recipe

1/2 c butter 
1/4 c sugar 
1 c flour 
1 1/4 c brown sugar 
1c chopped nuts or (chocolate chips) 
1 c coconut 
1/4 c flour 
2 eggs 

Cream butter. Add sugar and 1 c flour. Pat down in greased 9x13 pan. Bake 15 mins at 350 degrees. While crust is baking, mix together brown sugar, nuts (or chocolate), 1/4c flour. Add eggs and mix. When crust is baked, cover with coconut and nut (chocolate) mixture and bake for 15 mins at 350 degrees. *I made the version with chocolate chips but the nut version is good too.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies and Swedish Farmer Cookies

Recipe

Bonnakakor (Swedish Farmer cookies)
1 cup real butter softened (do not use margarine)
½ tsp soda
¾ cup sugar
1 tbs light karo syrup
1 ¾ cup flour
½ cup coarsely chopped blanched slivered almonds
Cream butter, soda, and sugar. Add syrup. Stir in flour and almonds. Shape into two rolls and chill for 2-3 hours. Slice and bake at 325 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Watch closely so they don’t get too brown. Makes about 80 cookies.


Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cream together:
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup shortening
Add:
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
Blend together and add to the creamed mixture:
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
1 ½ cups flour
Then add:
3 cups oatmeal
1 12 oz. pkg chocolate chips
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes

Chocolate Chip Cookies and Peanut Butter Cookies

Recipes

 Peanut Butter Cookies

Chocolate Chip Bacon Cookies

 
 Recipe soon to come...

Frosted Sugar Cookies

Recipe soon to come...

Date Pinwheel Cookie

Recipe soon to come...

Salted Caramel Apple Drop Cookies

Recipe soon to come...

Peanut Butter Cup Brownies and Chocolate Pretzels

Recipe soon to come...

Sour Cream Softies

Recipe soon to come...

Coconut Marshmallow

Recipe soon to come....

White Chocolate Macadamia Nut cookies

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Recipe Link
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/10025/white-chocolate-macadamia-nut-cookies-iii/

Chocolate Dipped Pretzels

dip pretzel rods in semi sweet chocolate chips that are warmed in the microwave. Heat the chocolate chips at 30 seconds at a time, and stir until they're all melted.

Holiday Dinner

Cookie Cake
Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Cookie covered in Chocolate Frosting.


Holiday Dinner
Ham, Scalloped Potatoes, Salad, Roll

Game # 2 - Pass the Gift

Pass the Gift Game

I got the rhyme for this "passing gift game" from  here.

Game #1 - Christmas Song Trivia

Christmas Song Trivia

Half of the songs on my worksheet came from here

Christmas Song Lyrics

1. Santa Baby
Santa baby. I wanna _________ and really that’s not a lot.

2. Jingle Bells
Bells on _________ ring. Making spirits bright.

3. The Twelve Days of Christmas
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me nine __________ __________.

4. Let it Snow
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the ___________ is so delightful.

5. Last Christmas
Once bitten and twice __________ I keep my distance.

6. Baby, It’s Cold Outside
So really I’d better _________ - Beautiful, please don’t hurry.

7. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
She didn’t see me _________ down the stairs to have a peek.

8. We need A Little Christmas
It’s time we hung some _________ on that evergreen bough.

9. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
It seems so long since I could say “_________, __________ sitting on a thistle!”

10. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
You can say there’s no such thing as Santa, But as for me and __________, we believe.

11. Never Do A Tango with an Eskimo
When a lady from Nebraska’s at a party in _________, She must never do a tango with an Eskimo.

12. I Want Elvis for Christmas
You ain’t nothing but a ___________, ooh barkin’ all the time.

13. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Don’t want a _________, no dinky tinker toy.