Cookie Presents?!
Answers: I want to make cookies for my 18 friends for X-MAs. What are good cookies that don't take long to make, makes alot, won't crumble during the of carrying them around, and look festive and nice packaged? Also, any wrapping ideas?
Make some cookies in the shape of christmas trees and decorate them. You can use icing to decorate. You can wrap them in different color saran wrap and tie ribbons on the top. You can put a christmas sticker that says to: persons name, from: your name. Then you can put them in a wicker basket and give them out. Good luck!
Cookie that doesn't crumble - that is funny...
Try this: http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Desserts/C...
You can put them in baskets, tins, pie plates, etc... Cover with green or red plastic wrap and add a bow..
These are awesome! They have little festive bags for cookies at Wal-Mart.
M&M Cookies
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
3/4 stick Crisco? Butter Shortening Sticks
2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 large egg
1 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cup Christmas M&Ms
Preparation Directions:
Heat oven to 375oF.
Combine brown sugar, shortening, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Beat in egg. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Mix into shortening mixture until just blended. Stir in M&MS.
Drop by rounded measuring tablespoonfuls 3-inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes for chewy cookies (they will look light and moist), or 11 to 13 minutes for crisp cookies. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet on a cooling rack. Remove cookies to rack to cool completely.
I dont know what your baking skills are so the best thing I can do for you is to recommend you go to
www.Northpole.com
and they have every christmas cookie recipe you could ever want and then some! They have it all! Including no bake cookies!
I am NOT a cook, but I get invited to lots of parties where I need to take treats. These are two absolutely simple recipes that you can handle... though the first requires a waffle iron... but that's what makes them stand out from all the others is the pretty pattern.
This is a large recipe, makes about 8 dozen... you can half it if you wish.
Vanessa's Belgian Waffle Cookies
1 lb softened butter
8 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 3/4 cups of sugar
6 cups of flour
in large mixing bowl combine butter, eggs, vanilla, and sugar with wooden spoon. Gradually add flour by hand to the mixture.
Drop 1-2 tsp of batter on hot waffle iron. Allow to cook around 3 minutes, or until batter stops steaming.
(it usually takes a few tries to get them right, and on some waffle irons it only takes a minute or so for them to cook so just keep an eye out).
Once the cookies cool i melt chocolate chips and i dip the tops of the cookies in the chocolate and then set them out on wax paper in the fridge to set.
RECIPE #2
Magic Bars
We have had these in my family for years... it's super easy, and you can cut the bars whatever size best works out for the number of gifts you plan to give.
Ingredients
2 cups graham Crakcer Crumbs
1 1/4 sticks of butter
1 bag chocolate chips
1 bag butterscotch chips
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup coconut
1 can of condensed milk
Preparation:
Mix melted butter and graham cracker crumbs and pat in bottom of 8 1/2 x 11 pan
Sprinkle chips, coconut, and nuts on top of the crumbs.
Cover with condensed milk.
Bake at 350 for 25 minutes, cool and cut into squares.
not a cookie but so yummy and easy and pretty durable--
chocolate pecan turtles
you need small pretzel knots or squares, hershey kisses and whole pecans--
heat oven to 200 degrees, lay out all the pretzels on a cookie sheet, top each one with a kiss, stick in the oven for just a few mins, just enough to soften the kiss, keep an eye on them, they shouldn't melt down or look any different, my oven this takes about 2 mins. take them out of the oven and press down on each kiss with a whole pecan. since you are just barely warming the kisses none of the chocolate should leak thru the pretzel holes. move off cookie sheet and let cool for about 15 mins. soooooo yummy! good with rolos instead of kisses too!
