Everyone at Long Ears Farm, would like to send greetings of comfort and joy this holiday season to all of you!
Greetings from Annie and Penny and Maverick and Clover
Jake, Hoss, and Boomer, Holly, Mac, and Chianna, and Calico,
and Jaja, Spice, and many feather friends.
Dandelion! the bunny too.
Annie and Penny wanted to share a few of our most favorite Christmas Cookie Recipes with you, so here goes:
SPRITZ- Buttery soft and sweet cookies- “One day they are in the Tupperware , the next they are all gone!
Preheat oven to 400
Bake 5-8 mins
Ingredients
- 1cup butter, softened
- 1/2cup sugar
- 2 1/4cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/4teaspoon salt
- 1egg
- 1teaspoon almond extract
- Food color, if desired
Steps
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1Heat oven to 400°F. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, salt, egg, almond extract and a few drops of food color.
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2Place dough in cookie press. Form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheet.
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3Bake 5 to 8 minutes or until set but not brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
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To decorate cookies after baking, use a drop of corn syrup to attach decorations to cookies.
- Add colored sugared sprinkled on top, or a mix of cookie decorations, the possibilities are endless
ALMOND BARK- Easy no bake quick chocolate craving fix.
Ingredients
Directions
- Butter a baking sheet or use a silicone baking mat (preferred).
- Bring about 1 inch of water to a simmer in a medium saucepan with a bowl fitted to sit just above the simmering water. Add the chocolate. When the chocolate is melted, remove the bowl from the heat and stir in the almonds. Spread on the baking sheet in a thin uniform layer. Let set for 5 minutes, then sprinkle with the salt. Chill in the refrigerator until firm, at least 2 hours.
- Break the bark into 1- to 2-inch pieces. Store in a cool, dry place, stacked between layers of foil or parchment in an airtight container. The bark will keep, tightly sealed in your pantry, for up to a week.
Cook’s Note
You can use any nut you have on hand, such as walnuts, hazelnuts and peanuts.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (227g) unsalted or salted butter
- 1 cup (220g) packed light or dark brown sugar
- 40 salted saltine crackers (about 1 sleeve)
- 1 pkg (270g-300g) milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips
- additional toppings like nuts, candy or sprinkles
instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line a large baking sheet with heavy duty aluminum foil (if using regular foil, spray with non-stick cooking spray for easy removal). Spread the crackers out on the foil in a single layer and fold up the edges of the foil to box in the crackers. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, melt the butter and brown sugar over medium-high heat on the stovetop. Bring to a rolling boil. Reduce the heat to medium and continue to boil for 5 minutes (set a timer), stirring occasionally. Quickly pour over the crackers and spread to cover completely.
- Bake for 5 minutes in the oven. Turn off heat. Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle the chocolate chips on top.
- Let stand for 1-2 minutes or until the chocolate starts to look shiny and is soft enough spread evenly over the toffee. If the chocolate is still not warm enough to spread after 4 minutes, place it back in the oven for a minute to help soften it.
- Top with any additional toppings if desired.
- Chill in the refrigerator for about 2 hours to harden. Peel away the foil and break into pieces.
Grandma Ginny Russian Tea Cakes – You can always spot the thief, they have a little bit of powdered sugar on their face!
Ingredients
Preheat oven to 400
Instructions
- Mix butter, sugar and vanilla into a nice cream. work in the flour, salt, add nuts. roll into small balls set on cookie sheet. Bake 400 oven until firm and lightly brown on bottom.
- While warm roll in a pan of powdered sugar, keep coating the cookie as it cools.
Grandma Myrtle Lemon Bars- A taste of summer in the cold winter months
Preheat oven to 350
Bake 18-20mins
Ingredients
Filling
Instructions
- Mix ingredients for crust together, press into an ungreased 9×13 pan.
- Mix filling together, lemon juice, zest, sugar, flour and eggs well and pour into crust and bake for another 25 mins, Sprinkle top with powdered sugar, cool and cut into bars Makes 32 Bars
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookie Recipe- If there is any dough left, these make great cookies.
Ingredients
Cream together
Sift Together
Fold in
Instructions
Cream Together
- Cream together sugars, eggs, vanilla. Add vanilla, baking soda.
Sift Together
- Sift together flour, salt add to cream mixture.
Fold In
- Fold in oatmeal and chocolate chips.
- If there is any dough left, drop teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheet.
Annie and Penny would not stand still long enough to wear the antlers!
