Category: Cookies

Christmas Spritz Sugar Cookies

Michael Metzler Jr.2 Comments

These are really cool little sugar cookies that you can give as Christmas gifts to friends and family.

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Ingredients:

(makes 6 dozen mini cookies)

12 tablespoons butter, softened

⅓ cup sugar

¼ tsp. salt

1 large egg

½ tsp. vanilla

1/4 teaspoon almond extract

1 ¾ all purpose flour

¼ whole wheat flour

 

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, whip butter with salt and sugar until creamy.

Add vanilla, egg, almond extract and mix until combined.

Add flours (whole wheat & all purpose) and stir until combined.

Option no. 1: You can roll out the dough and cut out the cookies with cookie cutters.

Or Option no. 2: You can do it the ‘Spritz’ way and use a cookie press (I used OXO cookie press) and press cookies. Place/Press cookies onto ungreased baking sheet or silicone mat on baking sheet.

Add sprinkles if you want to make it look pretty.

Bake for about 8 minutes, or until just beginning to brown.

Cool before serving. Makes 6 dozen small spritz cookies.

Holiday Molasses Cookies

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These Molasses Cookies are perfect out of the oven–crispy, chewy, and full of flavor. Perfect the Holidays. Use this for Molasses Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches, in my instructables post: Molasses Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches Have fun baking!

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Ingredients

(makes roughly 2 1/2 dozen)

1/2 cup salted butter, melted

1/2 cup coconut oil, melted

1 pkg. instant coffee granules

1 cup sugar

1 egg

½ cup molasses

2 tsp. cinnamon

¾ tsp. salt

1 ½ tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. ground cloves

1 tsp. ground ginger

3 cups flour

 

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

In stand mixer, whip butter and sugar together until creamy. Add egg until incorporated. Then add the Molasses.

In a separate bowl, mix together dry ingredients: cinnamon, baking soda, cloves, ginger, salt, and flour.

Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients in the stand mixer. Mix until smooth.

Pour some white sugar into a shallow bowl. Form dough into 1 inch balls, and roll in sugar until coated.

Place sugar-coated balls on ungreased baking sheet, and bake in preheated oven (350 degrees F) for 10 minutes. Let cool on stove top for a few minutes before serving.

 

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Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These cookies are healthy for being cookies, and make a great snack anytime of the day. They are quick and easy to make.

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INGREDIENTS

INGREDIENTS:

½ cup butter, softened

1/4 cup Coconut Oil, softened

1/2 cup Sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 t. molasses

2 t. Vanilla

1 egg

1 cup flour

1 t. baking soda

1/2 t. salt

1 t. cinnamon

1/8 t. nutmeg

3 1/2 cups quick oats

1 cup chocolate chips

 

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a stand mixer, beat first 5 ingredients until creamy and smooth.

Then add egg, and mix until well combined.

In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, and stir until well combined.

Add the oats. Stir until combined.

Add and stir in chocolate chips.

Place shaped cookies on ungreased baking sheets, approximately 1 inch of space in between cookie balls.

Bake for 11-12 minutes, or until golden. Cool on wire rack before serving.

 

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Spoon out cookies…
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…onto an ungreased baking sheet

 

 

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies in a Jar

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This is an easy way to give friends a gift: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies in a Jar.

Combine only the dry ingredients, and then tell your friends how to finish the cookies in their own kitchen on a slip of paper you tie onto the jar.

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INGREDIENTS:

(Makes 1 1/2 dozen cookies, approx., 1 JAR)

(NOTE: you’ll need a jar larger than a quart to be able to fit everything in. Probably twice the size would work)

½ cup flour

½ tsp. baking soda

¼ tsp. salt

½ tsp. cinnamon

Sprinkle of nutmeg

1 ½ cups quick oatmeal

¼ cup sugar

¼ cup brown sugar

½ cups chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS:

Fill Jar with Oats

In a medium small bowl, combine first five ingredients on list: (flour, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and baking soda).

Pour mixture neatly over oatmeal. Be sure while you’re adding ingredients to jar not to shake it, or the layers will be muddled.

In same bowl, combine the two sugars together. Then pour over as third layer in jar.

Pour the chocolate chips into jar. Secure sealed lid.

On card stock, preferably, write instructions to attach to jar so that your friends/family will know how to use the cookie mix jar in their kitchen:

RECIPE TO ATTACH:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Mix egg, butter, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Add cookie jar mix.

3. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.

4. Bake in preheated oven for 10-11 minutes.

Punch a hole in your card stock, and string ribbon through it, and tie it to jar. You are done with your gift.

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Healthier Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

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If you enjoy chocolate chip cookies, but feel guilty every time you eat one–this might be the recipe to lighten your heart and decrease your pure sugar and white gluten intake a bit.

 

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Half the flour you’ll be using is “White Whole Wheat Flour”, a great substitute in baking for those not minding a slightly denser crumb, but not willing to go completely off gluten; let’s be honest–a completely gluten free dessert doesn’t taste quite as good.

Also, there is a bit of coconut flour for those who have it.

Of course, the rest of the flour will be all-purpose flour.

When it comes to sugar, instead of using brown cane sugar, you’ll be choosing from either coconut sugar, or turbinado sugar–or a mixture of both. A smaller amount will be white cane sugar, though.

See recipe below:

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INGREDIENTS:

 

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup white whole wheat flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

¾ cup butter, melted

2 tablespoons canola oil

¾ cup of coconut sugar, or turbinado sugar, or a mixture of both

⅓ cup white sugar

3 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 egg

1 egg yolk

1 ½ cups chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

In a medium bowl, mix together flours, baking soda, and salt.

In a stand mixer, beat together sugars and melted butter until incorporated.

Put in the vanilla extract, egg, and egg yolk, and beat on high speed until light and fluffy, about 1 minute.

On low speed, gradually mix in the flour mixture, and then the chocolate chips, until everything is incorporated.

Place by tablespoons onto an ungreased baking sheet, and bake in preheated oven for 15 or more minutes, until edges are a bit browned.

Remove from oven and allow to cool for about 5-10 minutes before consuming.

Store in Ziploc plastic bags when not consuming.