Fun cookie recipes?!
Answers: Do you happen to have a fun cookie recipe that doesn't take a lot of time and is fun to make with kids?
CHILDREN'S FUN COOKIES
3/4 c. shortening, part butter
1/2 c. sugar
1 (3 oz.) pkg. cherry Jello (may add other flavors)
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
Mix and roll into balls; flatten with greased glass dipped in sugar. Bake 6-8 minutes at 400 degrees.
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup seedless raspberry jam
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 8 inch square pan, and line with greased foil.
Combine brown sugar, flour, baking soda, salt, and rolled oats. Rub in the butter using your hands or a pastry blender to form a crumbly mixture. Press 2 cups of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. Spread the jam to within 1/4 inch of the edge. Sprinkle the remaining crumb mixture over the top, and lightly press it into the jam.
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in preheated oven, or until lightly browned. Allow to cool before cutting into bars
oatmeal
HAMBURGER COOKIES
All store-bought ingredients:
1 box vanilla wafers
1 package Peppermint Patties
Frosting in the "squirt" packages: green, red, orange
Squirt green frosting (lettuce) on the bottom of a vanilla wafer, and put the peppermint patty on top. Add a squirt of orange frosting (cheese), another squirt of green, and a squirt of red (tomato), top with another vanilla wafer
My mom used to make these wonderful butter cookies with green frosting, in the shape of four leaf clovers or shamrocks, for St. Pat's.
Let me see if I can find that recipe for you. She's in the nursing home, but I might get them to take the phone over to her. Yeh, she has a mind like a steel trap, she'll remember.
While we're waiting, here's a recipe which I <i>think</i> is something like what she did. Of course she might be cagey on us, and whisper something like "ancient Basque-French secret" but she's a doll.
Man, those coookies were sooohhhh good they make you wanna slap yo' mama. Oh, sorry Mom.
MONSTER COOKIES
12 eggs
2 lb. brown sugar
4 c. white sugar
1 tbsp. Karo syrup
8 tsp. soda
1 tbsp. vanilla
1 lb. butter
3 lb. peanut butter
18 c. oatmeal
1 lb. chocolate chips
1 lb. M & M's (plain)
Mix in bowl in order given. Drop by large tablespoon or ice cream scoop and flatten.
Do not use flour. Bake for 12 minutes at 350 degrees. Do not over bake.
MONSTER COOKIES - SMALL BATCH
1 stick butter
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. white sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. soda
1 3/4 c. flour
3 eggs
1 1/2 c. peanut butter
3 c. quick oatmeal
1/4 lb. chocolate chips
1/4 lb. M & M's (plain)
Mix in bowl in order given. Drop by large tablespoon or ice cream scoop and flatten.
Bake for 12 minutes at 350 degrees. Do not over bake.