Holiday Recipe Exchange

[Tink]

OMG Tom!!!! Are you TRYING to make me gain weight??? Those cookies sound wicked!!!!

Shellyamc, I've wanted to try those rock cookies but never have. Will have to give it a go. I can run the recipe to ground, I think. If so, I'll get it up here.

[Tink]

Ta daaaah! Here they are! Johnie's famous Rock Cookies....



Johnie Mae's Christmas Rock Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup butter
1 ˝ cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons hot water
1 pound raisins
1 pound nuts (usually use walnuts)
1 pound dates
1 tablespoon cloves
Pinch salt
3 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
˝ cup candied cherries or mixed fruit for fruit cake (i use green and red candied cherries for color)

Directions:

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and blend well. Dissolve the baking soda in the hot water. Add to creamed mixture. Add raisins,nuts, dates, cloves, salt, flour and the cinnamon mixed together then add candied cherries. Add this mixture to the creamed mixture. Drop by teaspoons full on cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 5-8 minutes
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[Tinkfan]

Take one humbug, add loads of hugs, some spiked egg nog and you've got a right jolly soul!

What sorts of cookies do you like Tinkfan? Herself makes a wicked linzer, and a really nice shortbread. I'm not a huge fan of overly sweet cookies...

I have Shellyamc's recipe for peanut butter kiss cookies..

I really do have tons of cookie recipes but I'm always on the look out for new ones. I don't have a shortbread cookie recipe that I like (plain shorbread) I have one for a rasberry almond shorbread that is made in a 13 x9 pan that is sinfully rich and best paired with a good cheese and a glass of wine( sliced pear ) it is not overly sweet but very indulgent and seriously easy to make!! my brothers favorite!!

[Tinkfan]

Ta daaaah! Here they are! Johnie's famous Rock Cookies....



Johnie Mae's Christmas Rock Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup butter
1 ˝ cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons hot water
1 pound raisins
1 pound nuts (usually use walnuts)
1 pound dates
1 tablespoon cloves
Pinch salt
3 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
˝ cup candied cherries or mixed fruit for fruit cake (i use green and red candied cherries for color)

Directions:

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and blend well. Dissolve the baking soda in the hot water. Add to creamed mixture. Add raisins,nuts, dates, cloves, salt, flour and the cinnamon mixed together then add candied cherries. Add this mixture to the creamed mixture. Drop by teaspoons full on cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 5-8 minutes
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My next door neighbor made Rocks every Christmas , every Christmas without fail the kids ate everyone of them before Christmas morning!! When I got married, she gave me the recipe ! Yours look much better, will it hut the dough to eliminate the candied cherries?

[Shellyamc]

OMG Tom!!!! Are you TRYING to make me gain weight??? Those cookies sound wicked!!!!

Shellyamc, I've wanted to try those rock cookies but never have. Will have to give it a go. I can run the recipe to ground, I think. If so, I'll get it up here.

You should try them! They are easy to make, but make sure you leave a good bit of time because it makes a TON of cookies! It felt like a spent hours pulling trays out of the oven

[Tinkfan]

Christmas or anytime: Cookies!

All right then. Since it's you, I'll share my favorite, super-secret cookie recipe with you. It's the only recipe I have so if you don't like them, tell somebody else!

Personally, I love 'em!

Uncle Tommy’s patented, high-speed racing, outrageously delicious Reeses Peanut Butter Cookies to die for!

• 1⁄2 Cup butter or margarine
• 1⁄2 Cup creamy Peanut Butter
• 1⁄2 Cup sugar
• 1⁄2 Cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1⁄4 Cups all-purpose flour
• 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 40 Reese’s peanut butter cup candies

Cream butter and peanut butter, beat egg and add all liquid ingredients.
Add all dry ingredients and mix well.
Chill dough for at least 1 hour and preferably 24 hours.
Roll dough into 1-inch balls.
Bake in miniature muffin tin at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.
Remove from oven and press a peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie while it’s still warm.
Let cool before removing from muffin tin.

Enjoy!

Tom (... you won't toss these cookies! )

That looks so good, I love peanutbutter, will make these for this week-end!! If you like peanut butter cookies, I have a recipe for plain ones ( although you can add chips to the dough) Called 1 jar of peanutbutter cookies, they are outrageous!!!!

[catrancher]

That looks so good, I love peanutbutter, will make these for this week-end!! If you like peanut butter cookies, I have a recipe for plain ones ( although you can add chips to the dough) Called 1 jar of peanutbutter cookies, they are outrageous!!!!

I love peanut butter! My DW won't let me have it anymore except at "special" times of the year. Birthdays, holidays, etc. I have to cram it in while I can. Post the recipe and they will come. (Oh... wait... that's a different movie)

Tom (... I sure miss a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich!)

[Tinkfan]

Here it is: ! jar of Peant Butter Cookies

1 cup of softened butter

1 cup of white sugar

1 cup of packed brown sugar

2 eggs plus 1 egg yolk

2 teaspoons of vanilla

1 - 18 ounce jar of peanutbutter ( plain or crunchy)

2 cups of flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

you may add 1 cup chopped peanuts if desired.

In a large bowl, cream butter and both sugars until smooth. Add eggs, yolk, and vanilla and mix well. Stir in peanut butter. Add flour, baking soda and salt. Combine well until mixture holds together.. You may refrigerate the dough at this point. If you have no time to do this, I add a few more tablespoons of flour and bake!!! Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C.) Roll dough in walnut sized pieces and flatten slightly with a fork. Bake for 12 - 15 minutes. Cookies should look dry on top but don't over bake. Allow to cool on sheet a few minutes before removing