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Valentine's Day Cookies!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! This Valentine's day you can make Valentine's day cookies! Here's how, just follow these easy steps or visit the website below to figure out how to make these delicious cookies...http://www.marthastewart.com/317610/conversation-heart-cookies?czone=food/cookies-cnt/special-occasion-cookies&center=276956&gallery=275367&slide=284365

Conversation Heart Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, plus more for surface
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• Royal Icing
• Gel-paste food coloring (such as leaf green, lemon yellow, peach, red, rose, and violet)

Directions

1. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Cream butter and sugar with a mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy. With mixer running, add egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture gradually, beating until just incorporated. Divide dough in half; flatten each half into a disk, and wrap each in plastic. Refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour (or overnight).
2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees with racks in top third and lower third. Let 1 disk of dough stand at room temperature just until soft enough to roll, about 10 minutes. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out dough to just under 1/4-inch thickness, adding more flour as needed to keep dough from sticking. Cut out cookies with a 2-inch heart cutter, and place them 2 inches apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Roll out scraps once, and repeat. Repeat with remaining disk of dough. Freeze cookies until very firm, about 15 minutes.
3. Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through and switching from top to bottom, until edges turn golden brown, 14 to 16 minutes. Let cool on sheets on wire racks. Cookies will keep, covered, for up to 1 week.
4. Divide royal icing into 1/2-cup portions in small bowls. Tint each with a different gel-paste food coloring, starting with just a drop, mixing well, and adding more, drop by drop, to reach desired shade. Transfer 1 bowl of icing to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/8-inch round plain tip. Pipe the outline around edge of each cookie, then fill in with frosting. Poke air bubbles with a toothpick. Transfer decorated cookies to a parchment-lined baking sheet, and let stand uncovered overnight until dry.
5. Arrange stamp letters to create desired phrases. Fold a paper towel into quarters. Squeeze a small amount of red gel-paste food coloring onto a paper towel, and press stamp in coloring. (You may need to blot stamp a few times on a clean paper towel if coloring is too thick.) Lightly press stamp on top of icing in center of each cookie. Let stand until dry, about 30 minutes. Stamped cookies will keep, covered, for up to 3 days.

Have fun!!

Cookies

Made chocolate chip cookies this weekend.

Holiday Cookies

I made some great Tollhouse Cookies this week! I ate some great holiday/Christmas cookies this week, too! They had chocolate chips and red and green spots to represent Christmas... how cool!

Lemon Sugar Cookies!!

Lemon Sugar Cookies!

Aren't you in the mood for some delicious Lemon Sugar Cookies? I hope you are because this is the perfect recipe for them. Well here is the recipe. I hope you like it! 

LEMON SUGAR COOKIES
Read more about it at www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1710,129188-241195,00.html Content Copyright © 2012 Cooks.com - All rights reserved. 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 (14 ounce) can EAGLE BRAND® Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk) 1/4 cup lemon juice 2 tablespoons grated lemon rind 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 5 cups all-purpose flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt

 You can also make Lemon icing to top off the cookies! Here is how to make your own icing. 

Lemon Icing:

1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon lemon juice

 

 Sound yummy right?!

Well here is how you make them!

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, EAGLE BRAND®, lemon juice, lemon rind and vanilla; mix until smooth. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add to creamed mixture; mix well. Divide dough into 3 balls. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate at least 4 hours. Preheat oven to 350°F.

On lightly floured surface, roll each ball out to 1/4-inch thickness and cut into desired shapes. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on wire rack. Garnish with Lemon Drizzle (optional). Store leftovers covered at room temperature. Lemon Icing: Combine confectioners' sugar, water and lemon juice; mix well. Drizzle over cooled cookies.

You can also visit the website http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1710,129188-241195,00.html and that is where I found all of this information. Here is also a video of someone making these cookies.

 

Cookies

I made delicious chocolate chip cookies! With two whole bags of chips, they were very chocolaty! They are all gone now! We just made them yesterday!

Recipe

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Oatmeal cookies are really good, if you like oatmeal! I hope that you make these cookies because I bet they are delicious! Here are the ingredients you need to make them...  (All of this information came from http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,2310,153183-237203,00.html)

     1/2 cup vegetable oil

3/4 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup water
2 cups unbleached flour
1 cup raisins (any kind)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
2 cups quick-cooking oats

 

Here are the directions for making them... 

Preheat oven to 350°F.

In a saucepan, combine water and raisins, then heat until the water begins to boil, turn off heat and cool. Stir in vanilla.
In a large bowl, mix oil, sugar and eggs. Beat well.
Add raisins and all liquid to mixture. Stir in dry ingredients.
Beat well and stir in oats.
Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets.
Bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden brown.

Here is a video of someone making oatmeal raisin cookies, don't they look yummy? Her recipie might be a little different from the one above because everyone puts their own touch on the cookies. And you can either heat the oven to 350 or 375 one will just take a little shorter. Make sure you don't burn them!