Chocolate Fleck Cookies

Do your chocolate bit cookies ever plow out THIN? There is a elementary “fix” for this problem. All you lot accept to do, is to supervene upon the butter inwards your chocolate bit cookie recipe alongside butter flavored Crisco. You volition larn a light, flavorful cookie that volition non await similar a apartment pancake (and it volition gustatory modality similar you lot used butter). This “trick” plant good alongside peanut butter cookies too.
This photograph is my touchstone chocolate bit cookie recipe (except I used butterscotch chips).
1 loving cup of butter flavored Crisco (I purchase the pre-measured)
¾ loving cup of white sugar
¾ loving cup of dark-brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons of vanilla
Beat the to a higher house 5 ingredients until they are smooth, in addition to thus add:
2 ¼ cups white flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Mix everything until it is good blended, in addition to thus add:
12 oz. pocketbook of chocolate chips
1 loving cup of chopped pecans
Mix until everything is good blended. Roll into balls close the size of a walnut in addition to house on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake inwards preheated 375° oven for ten to 12 minutes (my oven bakes these cookies inwards xi minutes). You volition know they are done when they are ever thus lightly golden. Cool on rack. This dough, if covered well, volition terminal close a calendar week inwards your fridge.
NOTE: If you lot similar crisp chocolate bit cookies, bake for the amount 12 minutes. If you lot similar chewy chocolate bit cookies, bake for 10-11 minutes in addition to every bit presently every bit they are cool, seal them inwards Tupperware.

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Classic Peanut Butter Cookies

I've been making these peanut butter cookies for over twoscore years; they are my husbands all fourth dimension favorites.  I've made them thence many times that I don't fifty-fifty request to opened upwards the recipe majority anymore.  They are foolproof in addition to VERY slowly to make.

Preheat oven to 375°
In large mixing bowl amongst electrical mixer, vanquish until smooth:
1 loving cup butter flavored Crisco (no substitutions, run across banknote below)
1 loving cup peanut butter
2 eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 loving cup white sugar
1 loving cup dark-brown sugar

Once the inwards a higher house mixture is smooth, add together 2 ½ cups flour, 1½ teaspoons baking soda in addition to ½ teaspoon salt. Mix well. Cookie dough should live on moist in addition to concord together easily when yous crush a manus full. If it seems a trivial dry out or crumbly, add together a dyad tablespoons of water.

Roll the dough into balls nearly the size of walnuts, in addition to and thence gyre the balls inwards granulated sugar. Place on UN-greased baking canvas (about 2" apart) and flatten amongst fork tines inwards criss-cross pattern.

Bake for 10-12 minutes at 375°; cool on parchment paper.

NOTE: Cooking fourth dimension depends on how large yous brand these cookies. Dough balls nearly the size of a walnut, bake for xi minutes inwards my electrical oven.

NOTE: The master recipe called for butter (instead of the Butter Flavored Crisco). The Butter Flavored Crisco makes a much lighter and crispier cookie than butter (and all the same provides the buttery taste). Butter volition laissez passer on yous a rattling dense in addition to heavy cookie.

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Shortbread Cookies

A delicious shortbread cookie that has solely half-dozen really mutual ingredients too makes a ton of cookies, what to a greater extent than tin y'all inquire for? This recipe has the classic shortbread sense of savour (sort of similar a Lorna Doone cookie but thence much better) too it is So simple, y'all merely mix too pat it into a pan too bake.
5 cups all role flour
1 loving cup sugar
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups COLD butter (no substitutes)
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix flour, saccharide inward large mixing bowl. Cut the butter into the dry out mixture along alongside vanilla until it turns into fine crumbs. Pat crumbs into an UNgreased 10” x 15” baking pan. Prick all over alongside fork tines too bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Cool inward pan for xv minutes too thence cutting into modest squares. Cool to room temperature.
NOTE: I flora it agency besides tiring on the arms to cutting the butter into the flour past times hand. Instead, I grated it on a cheese grater too mixed it into the flour best I could. Then I transferred the flour butter mixture to my stand upwards mixer too used the whisk attachment on medium high for close twenty seconds…PERFECT crumbs. I am guessing a nutrient processor would function good too. These are SO good.
NOTE: I was non able to poke holes inward my cookies correct away (the crumbs seemed besides dry). I position them inward the oven for close xv minutes too and thence took them out too poked holes all over the dough alongside a fork too it worked fine.

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Thumbprint Cookies

My married adult man is a cookie-aholic...he has to accept cookies around! This classic cookie is his 2d favorite (right behind peanut butter). When the kids were little, I alone made these around the holidays, however, since I notice myself making a lot of jam inward the summer, I've been making these to a greater extent than often. This batch was made amongst raspberry-red currant jam (both grow inward the woods around our house).


1 1/2 cups all piece of employment flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 loving cup butter (room temperature)
1/3 loving cup white sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 egg whites, slightly beaten
3/4 loving cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts
1/3 loving cup favorite jam

Beat the butter for thirty seconds; add together saccharide in addition to shell until low-cal in addition to fluffy. Add egg yolks in addition to vanilla, mix well. Stir dry out ingredients together in addition to add together to to butter mixture, shell until good blended.
Shape pieces of dough into 1 inch balls in addition to coat them amongst egg whites in addition to and then whorl them inward chopped nuts. Place them on a UNgreased cookie sail in addition to exercise your finger to brand an indentation inward the oculus of the cookie (I know it says "thumbprint" simply your finger industrial plant amend lol). Set the cookie sail inward the refrigerator to chill for one-half sixty minutes or hence (or freezer for xv minutes).
Bake for 17-20 minutes inward preheated 350 oven, or until golden. Cool on wire rack. When the cookies are cool, produce total the depression amongst 1/4 teaspoon of your favorite jam.

Hubby's Cookie Jar Photo

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Easy Veggie Rice Side Dish

When I serve obviously white rice, my hubby slathers it amongst butter too white saccharide (yuck). To avoid that, I've learned to jazz our rice upwardly a little. This recipe is the number of years of tweaking, too nosotros actually bask it; I similar it because it goes amongst nearly anything, exactly specially skillful amongst baked chicken.

1/2 loving cup diced onion
1/2 loving cup diced celery
1/2 loving cup diced carrot
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 loving cup of raw long grain rice (not instant)
1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon dried sage
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dark pepper
2 too 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 loving cup of frozen veggies
sliced light-green onion tops for garnish
1 tablespoon butter

Saute the onion, celery too carrot inward the canola petroleum until they foremost to lose their crispness; stir inward rice too seasonings; stir to coat the rice amongst the petroleum too saute gently for a infinitesimal or two. Add the broth too frozen veggies too convey to a boil. When it starts to boil, plough oestrus downward to a depression simmer too position a tight plumbing fixtures lid on the pan. Simmer for twenty minutes. After twenty minutes, plough off the burner too allow it sit down for 5 minutes. Add ane tablespoon of butter & fluff amongst a fork too serve.

NOTE: You noticed I role 2 1/2 cups of broth, that is to a greater extent than than you lot would usually role for obviously rice. I role this extra total of broth to give me a slightly saucy rice.

 

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Bake Sale Butterscotch Cookies

I telephone phone this recipe "Bake Sale Butterscotch Cookies" because they are quick too cheap to make, they are something a trivial unlike too the recipe makes a whopping 6 dozen cookies! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bang-up recipe for a bake sale, pot luck or solid unit of measurement gathering.

5 too 1/4 cups all role flour
3 cups of chocolate-brown saccharide (packed)
3 eggs
2 cups butterscotch chips
1 too 1/2 cups butter flavored Crisco
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 too 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

In a large mixing bowl (stand mixer plant best because its such a large batch), cream the Crisco too chocolate-brown saccharide together. Add the eggs, i at a time, too vanquish good afterwards each egg. Beat inwards the vanilla.

Combine the dry out ingredients too butterscotch chips too add together gradually to the Crisco mixture too vanquish well. Roll this dough into balls (about the size of a small-scale walnut) too bake on an ungreased cookie sheet, at 350, for 12 to thirteen minutes. Cool on parchment paper.

NOTE: This recipe tin flaming hold upward made amongst butter instead of the Crisco, simply it volition deed really unlike spell it is baking. With the Crisco, the cookie volition retain its prissy sort that you lot run into inwards these photos. If you lot utilisation butter, you lot volition move a much flatter cookie.

NOTE: Personally, I prefer the butter flavored Crisco because it gives you lot a much to a greater extent than professional person looking cookie. My wife is the cookie connoisseur inwards lx minutes solid too he prefers cookies made amongst butter flavored Crisco.

 This recipe makes a lot of cookies!

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The Ultimate (Filled) Peanut Butter Cookie

These (crispy on the exterior - creamy on the inside) cookies are a hitting every fourth dimension I brand them. They are quick to brand together with delicious to eat, amongst a sweetness peanut butter cookie exterior together with a Reese's loving cup interior...need I tell more? These cookies are likewise a neat bake sale item.

1 BAG OF MINIATURE REESE CUPS FROZEN

1 & 1/4 CUPS ALL PURPOSE FLOUR
3/4 TEASPOON BAKING SODA
1/4 TEASPOON SALT
1/2 CUP BUTTER FLAVORED CRISCO (don't substitute)
1/2 CUP PEANUT BUTTER
1/2 CUP WHITE SUGAR
1/2 CUP BROWN SUGAR
1 EGG
1 TEASPOON VANILLA EXTRACT


In a large mixing bowl, cream together the Crisco, peanut butter, sugars, egg together with vanilla until it is polish together with creamy. Next add together the dry out ingredients together with shell until smooth. Roll this dough into 1" balls together with house them inwards an UNgreased mini-muffin pan:

Bake them at 375 for ten minutes together with they volition await similar this:

Immediately press a FROZEN miniature Reese's cups into the centre of each cookie (pressing downwards until the exceed of the candy is at the same score every bit the exceed of the cookie).

Let these cool IN THE PAN for close two minutes earlier you lot displace to withdraw them. To withdraw the cookies, insert just the tip of a sparse knife betwixt the cookie together with the pan (the knife volition help you lot elevator the cookie out). The chocolate volition melt from the oestrus of the cookie, then it volition last messy until the chocolate re-sets. You tin speed develop them inwards the fridge.

BE CAREFUL, THEY ARE ADDICTING!!

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