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Recipes - Cookies, Pies, Cakes, and Other Sweets
CellarDweller:
Some of the cookies my mom and I would bake for Christmas.
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
2 Mix well the shortening and butter, sugar, egg, almond and vanilla. In a separate bowl, mix flour and salt and add to shortening mixture. Divide dough in half.
3 Blend red food coloring into one half. Roll 1 teaspoon of the red dough and 1 teaspoon of the white dough on lightly floured board into 4 inch strips. Place strips side by side and press lightly together and twist like a rope. Curve top of rope down to look like the handle of a candy cane.
4 Bake 9 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove while still warm. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup crushed peppermint stick candy and 1/2 cup sugar (optional).
CellarDweller:
1/2 cup butter
4 cups miniature marshmallows
1 teaspoon green food coloring
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups cornflakes cereal
red hots/red M&Ms
1 Microwave marshmallows and butter on High for 2 minutes. Stir, then microwave on High for 2 minutes more. Stir. (This can be done in a double boiler if one doesn't have a microwave.)
2 Add and mix quickly the coloring, extracts, then cornflakes. Drop by spoonfuls in clumps on greased wax paper and decorate with 3 red hots/red M&Ms each.
3 Once cool, transfer to lightly greased serving/storage tray with lightly greased fingers.
Front-Ranger:
They forgot to list the red hots!
CellarDweller:
I added them.
Front-Ranger:
Well, what do you know. . . a recipe for easy cherry cake!
http://www.hefty.co/cherry-clafoutis/
Mrs. Twist would be pleased.
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