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Thanks to L.B. for these delicious recipes. Why not try making these goodies for a cold Christmas night? Enjoy!
Ginger Snaps
(These are great with apple cider. I made more than 100 of these once.
Ingredients:
4 ½ cups of flour
2 T. pumpkin pie spice (or about the same amount of ginger, cloves and cinnamon.)
2 t. baking powder
¼ t. salt
1 ½ cups shortening
2 cups sugar (and a little bit extra for rolling the cookies in)
½ cup molasses
2 eggs
Instructions:
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl stir together the first four ingredients. In a large bowl beat shortening with a mixer on low speed for 30 seconds. Add the sugar. Beat until combined. Add in the molasses and the eggs. Slowly mix in the flour mixture. Shape dough in balls using a ¼ cup measure if you want really big cookies or if you want normal sized cookies just use a spoon. Roll the balls in sugar. Place on pan and flatten. Bake at 350 degrees until done (Approx.12 minuets for big ones and 8 for small ones).
Makes 24 big cookies and around 100 little ones.
Christmas Toffee
These are a little hard to make, but the taste is worth it.Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
3 T water
1T corn syrup
1 cup chopped up dark chocolate (you can also use chocolate chips if you can get them where you live)
½ cup finely chopped nuts (toasted pecans are the best, but you can use almonds also)Instructions:
Line a large baking pan (15x10x1 works best) with foil. Butter the sides of a 2 quart saucepan. In the saucepan melt the butter,; then add the next three ingredients. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until the mixture boils. Clip a candy thermometer to the side of the pan. Reduce the heat to medium: continue boiling at a steady rate, stirring often until the thermometer registers 290o remove it from heat, remove thermometer, pour candy into foil-lined pan, spreading quickly. Let the candy stand until it sets, then sprinkle the chocolate. Once the chocolate has softened spread it evenly over the candy. Sprinkle with nuts. Chill the candy in the fridge until its firm. Break into pieces. Eat. J
Cream puffs
Ingredients:
1 cup water
½ cup butter
1/8 t salt
1 cup flour
4 eggs
3 cups filling (for filling you can use whipped cream, pudding or ice cream)
Chocolate syrup (optional)Instructions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a saucepan mix the first 3 ingredients. Bring to a boil. Add all the flour at once, stirring vigorously. Cook and stir until mixture forms a ball, then remove it from heat. Cool for 10 minuets. Then add the eggs, one at a time, beating well with a wooden spoon after each one. Drop 12 heaping tablespoons of dough onto a greased baking sheet and bake at 400 for 30-35 minuets or until they are golden. Once cool, cut the tops off of the dough and remove the soft inside. Fill with cream (or other filling) replace tops. Drizzle with chocolate syrup.
