How To Make Christmas Cookies

Come Christmas time and mommies in every household start being pestered by the tiny tots and the grown-up adults alike, for cookies! In fact, without homemade cookies, the holiday season seems to be incomplete. Have you exhausted all of your cookie recipes through the many Christmas that you have celebrated with your family till date? Are you looking for some new and different recipes this year? If yes, then we are happy to be of help. With this article, you will get two new recipes on how to make Christmas cookies. Go through them and take your pick for this year!

Christmas Cookies Recipes

Pecan Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup (250 ml) Unsalted Butter
1/2 cup (125 ml) Light Brown Sugar
2 cups (500 ml) Flour
1 cup (250 ml) Ground Pecans
2 tsp (10 ml) Vanilla
1 pinch of Salt

Instructions

First of all, you need to preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C). In the meantime, line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or grease it with butter.
Take a large bowl and in it, put together butter and brown sugar. Beat the mixture, making use of an electric mixer or a food processor, until it becomes creamy.
Add flour, ground pecans, vanilla and salt to the butter-sugar mixture and again beat them together, with an electric mixer or a food processor, until smooth dough is formed.
Cover the dough with a plastic wrap and keep it inside the refrigerator. Let it sit there for 30 minutes to 1 hour, so that it becomes hard enough to be shaped into cookies.
Make 1-inch (2-cm) balls from the dough and place them on the cookie sheet that has been prepared earlier. Making use of your palm or the bottom of a glass (dipped in flour), flatten the cookies slightly.
Place the baking dish inside the oven and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the cookies set and become very lightly browned on the bottom. Remove from the oven and let the cookies cool on a wire rack. Serve.

Chocolate Dipped Almond Cookies

Ingredients

6 tbsp (90 ml) Butter
1/3 cup (75 ml) Brown Sugar
3 tbsp (45 ml) Corn Syrup
3/4 cup (175 ml) Finely Ground Almonds
1/3 cup (75 ml) All Purpose Flour
1 tsp (5 ml) Vanilla
1/2 cup (125 ml) Semisweet Chocolate Chips
1 tsp (5 ml) Solid Vegetable Shortening (not butter or margarine)

Instructions

First of all, you need to preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C). In the meantime, line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or grease it with butter.
Take a medium saucepan and put butter, brown sugar and corn syrup in it. Stir the mixture, in order to combine the ingredients together. Bring the mixture to a boil, over medium heat, while stirring constantly.
Once the mixture has boiled over, remove it from heat and add almonds, flour and vanilla to it. Mix well and drop teaspoonfuls of the batter onto the prepared cookie sheet, 3 inches (8 cm) apart.
Place the baking dish inside the oven and bake until the cookies set and become very lightly browned on the edges. Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and set aside.
Now, making use of a thin spatula, remove the cookies from the sheet and place them on a flat surface, bottom-side-up. Now, roll them slightly, around a chopstick or thin wooden dowel and slide off onto a tray.
After all the cookies have been rolled and cooled down as well, it is the time to take a small bowl and put chocolate chips and vegetable shortening in it.
Place the small bowl in microwave and heat, on high power, for 30 seconds. Stir the mixture thoroughly and microwave for another 30 seconds. Remove and give it a thorough whip.
The chocolate dip is ready, Get the cookies and, one by one, dip one of their ends into the melted chocolate. Shake off any excess and place the dipped cookies on a tray (lined with waxed paper).
After you have dipped all the cookies in the chocolate dip, place the tray in the refrigerator. Let it sit there until the chocolate on the cookies is firm. Serve immediately.

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