Day: October 24, 2010

Posted in Cookies, Holiday/Christmas, Recipes

Peanut Butter Blossoms

Posted on by traci

This is my third week of posting Christmas cookie recipes. This week’s recipe is another favorite of the Imaginative One. My mother-in-law adores these. What’s not to love about them? Peanut butter and chocolate is delicious together.

Peanut Butter Blossoms

Stars of the recipe:

  • 48 Hershey’s Kisses
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 3/4 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • Granulated sugar

Steps:

  1.  Heat oven to 375°F. Remove wrappers from the chocolates.
  2. Beat shortening and peanut butter in a large bowl until well blended.
  3. Add 1/3 cup granulated sugar and brown sugar; beat until fluffy.
  4. Add egg, milk, and vanilla; beat well.
  5. Stir flour, baking soda, and salt; gradually beat into peanut butter.
  6. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in granulated sugar; place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
  7.  Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned.
  8. Immediately press a chocolate into the center of each cookie; the cookie will crack around the edges.
  9. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
  10. Cool completely.

Other Christmas cookie recipes:  Mock Thin Mints and Snickerdoodles

This post has been linked to Delicious Dishes. and Eat at Home.

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Posted in Holiday/Christmas, Snacks

Sweet and salty Halloween treats

Posted on by traci

I found this “recipe” on This Mommy Cooks’ blog, so I decided to make them take to church for our fellowship time.  These treats were gone quickly.  In fact, my hubby came over looking for some and couldn’t find any because they were all gone.

I call these a “recipe,” but it is a method more than a recipe.

Stars of the “recipe:”

  • mini pretzels (twists or snaps)
  • Hershey kisses or hugs
  • candy or Indian corn

Steps:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Line a cookie sheet with parchment or foil.
  3. Place the pretzels on the cookie sheet.  Make sure they are not touching.
  4. After unwrapping the kisses/hugs, place them on each pretzel.
  5. Place the cookie sheet in the oven.  Bake for 3 to 5 minutes until the kisses are melted.  You will know they are because they will become shiny.
  6. Take it out of the oven.  Carefully place a candy corn/Indian corn on each of the kisses.
  7. Cool and then store.  (You may have to put them in the fridge to aid the cooling process.)

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