Holiday Bakebition
Aka, when I get too ambitious with cookies. I tried turning two different icebox cookie doughs into drop cookies, one which turned out fantastically, and the other which would not cooperate - wayyyyyy too dry (I think my butter melted on me). Anyway, here's the kind that worked out well. Base "vanilla icebox cookie" recipe taken from the ever classic Joy of Cooking.
Peppermint Blossoms
1 bag Hershey's Peppermint Kisses (they're peppermint & white chocolate swirl w/ candy bits)
3 c flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 sticks butter
1 1/3 + 1/3 c sugar (separated)
2 eggs
4 tsp vanilla
1) Unwrap your kisses and set aside. Preheat oven to 350 (Joy calls for 375, but my oven runs SUPER hot - I recommend baking a test cookie to determine what's best for your oven).
2) Whisk together dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt).
3) Cream together butter and 1 1/3 c sugar. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until well blended. Add flour mixture in thirds, scraping the sides with a spatula in between.
4) Pour the extra 1/3 c sugar into a shallow bowl (I use one of our flat Glad-ware things, cuz I'm ghetto like that). Taking a small chunk of dough, roll it into a ball approx. 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Roll it in the sugar until it's completely coated. Drop onto a greased cookie sheet (tin foil, ppl, use tinfoil and crisco baking spray - THIS WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE) and press on it lightly with the flats of your fingers.
5) Bake time will total 8-10 minutes depending on your oven. Set your timer for 1 minute less than the total you need. When it goes off, pull the cookies out, and press a Hershey's Kiss into the center of each cookie, then return to the oven for the final minute (WATCH THEM CAREFULLY - These kisses burn easily, unlike the regular chocolate ones).
Makes 4 dozen cookies
At some point, I'm going to try making gingerbread cookies, which I haven't attempted EVER without my mother to assist. Yikes.
Peppermint Blossoms
1 bag Hershey's Peppermint Kisses (they're peppermint & white chocolate swirl w/ candy bits)
3 c flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 sticks butter
1 1/3 + 1/3 c sugar (separated)
2 eggs
4 tsp vanilla
1) Unwrap your kisses and set aside. Preheat oven to 350 (Joy calls for 375, but my oven runs SUPER hot - I recommend baking a test cookie to determine what's best for your oven).
2) Whisk together dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt).
3) Cream together butter and 1 1/3 c sugar. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until well blended. Add flour mixture in thirds, scraping the sides with a spatula in between.
4) Pour the extra 1/3 c sugar into a shallow bowl (I use one of our flat Glad-ware things, cuz I'm ghetto like that). Taking a small chunk of dough, roll it into a ball approx. 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Roll it in the sugar until it's completely coated. Drop onto a greased cookie sheet (tin foil, ppl, use tinfoil and crisco baking spray - THIS WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE) and press on it lightly with the flats of your fingers.
5) Bake time will total 8-10 minutes depending on your oven. Set your timer for 1 minute less than the total you need. When it goes off, pull the cookies out, and press a Hershey's Kiss into the center of each cookie, then return to the oven for the final minute (WATCH THEM CAREFULLY - These kisses burn easily, unlike the regular chocolate ones).
Makes 4 dozen cookies
At some point, I'm going to try making gingerbread cookies, which I haven't attempted EVER without my mother to assist. Yikes.