Sunday, March 11, 2018

Recipe #139: Chocolate Chip & Peanut Cookies

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

1½ cups packed brown sugar
1 cup (½ lb.) butter, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs
3 cups all purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
2 cups. salted peanuts
1 package (6 oz) semisweet chocolate chips


Heat oven to 375 F

Mix brown sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs in large bowl.

Stir in flour, baking soda and salt. Stir in peanuts and the chocolate chips.

Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart. Flatten with greased bottom of glass dipped into sugar.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown.

Remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack immediately.



Recipe #138: Brown Sugar Shortbread Cookies

Makes 5 dozen.

1 cup soft butter
1/2 cup light-brown sugar, firmly packed
2-1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour


In large bowl, with portable electric mixer at medium speed, or wooden spoon, beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy.

With wooden spoon, stir in flour until smooth and well combined.  Dough will be stiff.

Refrigerate dough, covered, several hours.

Preheat oven to 300F.

Divide dough into 2 parts; refrigerate until ready to roll out.

On lightly floured surface, roll out dough, one part at a time, 1/3 inch thick.

Using 1-1/2- or 2-inch fancy cookie cutters, cut out cookies. Place, 1 inch apart, on ungreased cookie sheets.

Bake cookies 25 minutes, or until light golden. 

Remove to wire rack; cool.

Bonus: SHORTBREAD STARS

Make Brown-Sugar Shortbread Cookies, substituting granulated sugar for light-brown sugar.

Use 1-1/2- or 2-inch star-shape cookie cutters to cut out cookies. 

Bake as directed above.



Recipe #137: Magic Cookie Bars

Makes 24 bars.

1/2 cup (125 mL) butter
1‑1/2 cups 375 mL) graham wafer crumbs
1 can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 cup (250 mL) semi‑sweet chocolate chips
1‑1/4 cups (300 mL) flaked coconut
1 cup (250 mL) chopped nuts


Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F (180C).

In 13 x 9 inch (3.5L) baking pan melt butter in oven. Sprinkle crumbs over butter; mix together and press into pan.

Pour Eagle Brand evenly over crumbs.

Sprinkle with chips, then coconut and nuts; press down firmly.

Bake 25‑30 min. or until lightly browned.

Cool well before cutting. Store loosely covered at room temperature.

Easy to bake and easier to eat.

Source: Arthur Dick



Saturday, March 10, 2018

Recipe #136: Rolled Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 Tbsp. hot water
1 tsp. soda
2 cups sifted pastry flour
2 cups quick oatmeal
½ tsp salt
1 tsp. vanilla

Cream butter, sugar and cream until fluffy.

Add flour, salt and oatmeal.

Add soda dissolved in hot water, and vanilla.

Roll very thin, about 1/8" thick.

Cut with round cutter the size of a soup tin.

Bake at 350 degrees.



Recipe #135: Shortbread

½ pound of butter
½ cup icing sugar
1 ½ cup sifted All Purpose flour
1/4 cup corn starch
1 teaspoon vanilla

Beat butter and icing sugar very smooth with an electric beater.

Beat in flour and corn starch.

Continue beating until light and fluffy.

Drop by the teaspoonful onto a greased cookie sheet.

Bake in a 325 degree pre-heated oven until lightly brown - ~12 minutes.

Garnish with slice of cherry, broken walnut, cashew nut or whatever.





Recipe #134: Sugar Cookies

2 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 eggs, well beaten
5 cups white flour
2 tsp  baking soda
4 tsp. cream or tartar
1 tsp salt
2 tsp. vanilla


Cream butter and sugars thoroughly, add well-beaten eggs and vanilla. Sift together dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture.

Chill dough for several hours or overnight. Roll dough 1/8" thick, and cut with round cookie cutter.

Sprinkle with sugar. Bake for 8 min. in 350 degrees oven.



Recipe #133: Banana Muffins

Sift together:
3 cup flour
1-1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2-1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt


Beat together:
1-½ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2/3 cup melted butter


With the sugar, eggs and butter thoroughly beaten (about 4 minutes by hand) add the sifted ingredients into the batter ½ cup at a time.

Bake at 350 for twenty minutes or until toothpick inserted into center of muffin comes out clean.