Christmas Cookies are fun to make, and even more fun to enjoy. Made with red and green colored sugar, they brighten up any platter and everyone’s face! They are a combination of peanut butter, and chocolate! The fun part is the rolling up and dipping the balls into sugar. That, along with placing the kiss into the warm cookie when it comes out of the oven, is the best part!
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Christmas Cookies– Recipe #1:
Christmas Kisser Cookies
From the Kitchen of
Rosemary Hersey
- ½ cup Crisco shortening 1 tsp vanilla
- Granulated (white) sugar-1/2 cup ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup brown sugar 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ cup peanut butter 1 ¾ cup flour
- 1 egg 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 package HERSHEY’S Kisses (unwrapped)
Mix above ingredients together until smooth. Batter will be thick.
Roll into balls and dip in RED and GREEN Sugar.
Bake at 375’ for 8-10 minutes.
When the cookies FIRST come out of the oven, place one kiss into the center and push gently… It just start to melt and be sure you taste one when they are warm!
Makes 4 dozen.
I usually double the recipe and freeze half.
Enjoy!
Christmas Cookies– Recipe #2:
Old fashioned Christmas Oatmeal Cookies
The Zorc Family recipe
From Rosemary’s Kitchen:
Ingredients:
- 2 cups granulated sugar 2 cups shortening (white)
- 3 eggs 2 cups oatmeal
- 3 ¾ cup flour 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp baking soda ¾ tsp salt
Cream shortening and sugar, add beaten eggs. Mix. Add oatmeal (nuts/raisins if desired), mix in sifted flour, cinnamon, soda and salt. Roll into balls, dip in colored red and green sugar, press with a fork crosswise.
Bake @ 375’ for 8-10 minutes, careful not to overcook.
TIPS:
These freeze well in Tupperware with wax paper in between.
They can be made anytime during the year. Be creative and use different colored sugar for each occasion. For instance, pink and red for Valentine’s Day. Or green for St. Paddy’s Day. Blue, yellow, pink and green work well for Easter.
Enjoy!
Christmas Cookies– Recipe #3:
Soft Spritz Cookies
From Rosemary’s Kitchen
Ingredients:
Single Batch (2-3 dozen) DOUBLED (4-6 dozen)
- 1 cup real butter (2 sticks) softened 2 cup (4 sticks) real butter
- ¾ cup sugar 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 large egg 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla 2 tsp vanilla
- ¼ tsp almond extract 1/4 tsp almond extract
- 2 ¼ cup flour 4 1/2 cup flour
- ¼ tsp salt 1/2 tsp salt
Combine butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in egg, vanilla and almond extract. Add flour and salt. Divide into 2-3parts and color dough (green for trees, yellow for stars, red for ornaments, if you’re really creative, divide into 4 parts and make one blue… really pretty when served on a plate. ☺ )
Use press-out cookie maker to make shapes. Press cookie dough onto baking sheets.
Bake for 7-9 minutes, until just beginning to look light brown on edges.
DO NOT OVER BAKE!
Personal Note: These are great for Christmas. I personally use the Christmas tree, ornament, and star die with spritz cookie press.
Photo to follow when I can find it!
Christmas Cookies– Recipe #4:
“Hersey Pillows”
Rosemary Hersey’s kitchen
[Great at Christmastime with Red/Green sugar]
Ingredients:
- Real butter, softened- 1 1/2 cups [or 3 sticks]
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- Vanilla-1 tsp
- 4 cups sifted flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- Regular size Hershey chocolate bars broken along ridges, each bar should have 12 pieces.
- Red and green sugar
Mix sugar, butter, egg and vanilla in large mixing bowl… add sifted flour and baking powder. Mix well. Using Spritz cookie press, press out with straight line disc with jagged edge, long strips on cookie sheet. Place pieces of chocolate on cookie dough leaving about a ¼ inch in between the pieces. Add a strip of dough on top of chocolate. It will now look like a long cookie taking up the length of the cookie sheet. You can normally fit either 3 or 4 strips of dough on each sheet. I sprinkle one strip with red colored sugar, then next with green etc… bake at 350 for about 8-10 minutes, until the edges JUST begin to start to brown. DO NOT OVERCOOK
Let cool for about 10 min, then use a knife or pizza cutter if you have one, and cut cookies apart in between the chocolate pieces, leaving behind a “pillow looking cookie”…
- Your kids will LOVE these at any age… Mine still do.
- These cookies freeze well, with wax paper in between layers.
- Give away to friends and family. They will always invite you back!
Enjoy!
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