Christmas cookies!

[SweetWitch]

No Xmas cookie thread this year? I'm aghast!

Here's one of my favorites:

"A snowball cookie wrapped around a Hershey's Kiss. For variety, use regular, almond or mint Hershey's Kisses."
Ingredients
8 ounces unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
30 Hershey's chocolate kisses, unwrapped
powdered sugar
Directions
Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add the vanilla and mix well.
Add flour, combine well, and wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for half an hour.
Preheat oven to 350°F
Take dough out of refrigerator and break into balls large enough to cover a Hershey's Kiss.
Insert the Kiss and wrap dough around it, making sure it is completely covered.
Bake on ungreased cookie sheet until cooked through, about 10 to 12 minutes. Remove cookies from baking sheet to wire rack.
While still warm, sift powdered sugar on top. Cool completely.

 

[PennLady]

Oh wow. That sounds great. I myself recently made cookies with a cookie press -- remember those? I'll have to put the recipe up. Also I may make some Greek cookies, I think called koulourakia. Sort of like shortbread but not as heavy.

 

[SweetWitch]

Oh wow. That sounds great. I myself recently made cookies with a cookie press -- remember those? I'll have to put the recipe up. Also I may make some Greek cookies, I think called koulourakia. Sort of like shortbread but not as heavy.

Sounds tasty. My daughter did pressed cookies with grandma last week. The cookies were good, but the days without the princess were better. I got a lot of Christmas done then.

 

[PennLady]

Sounds tasty. My daughter did pressed cookies with grandma last week. The cookies were good, but the days without the princess were better. I got a lot of Christmas done then.

Isn't it so much easier when they are otherwise occupied? I've already told Mr Penn I know he's busy but I do have presents to wrap...

 

[SweetWitch]

Isn't it so much easier when they are otherwise occupied? I've already told Mr Penn I know he's busy but I do have presents to wrap...

Yeah, well Mr. Witch had better start putting in some effort or I'll let him do it all next year.

 

[Handley_Page]

Yeah, well Mr. Witch had better start putting in some effort or I'll let him do it all next year.

But Molly, I seem to recall you saying the same thing last year !

 

[SweetWitch]

But Molly, I seem to recall you saying the same thing last year !

Yeah, but he bought me a new car this year. Merry Christmas to me.

 

[PennLady]

Classic Spritz Cookies

1-1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
2 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond extract
3-1/5 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375 F.

Thoroughly cream butter and sugar. Add egg, milk, vanilla and almond extract; beat well. Stir together flour and baking powder in separate bowl; gradually add to creamed mixture, mixing to make a smooth dough.

Do not chill.

Place dough into cookie press and press cookies onto ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned around edges. Remove and cool on rack. Makes 7-8 dozen cookies.

Notes:

If you don't have a press, this dough is firm enough to make your own shapes by hand, but I don't think a cookie cutter would work. You can also break the dough up into sections and add food coloring. It's a stiff dough, and I found it easiest to knead it with my hands to work the coloring in. I also found that in my oven, the cookies were done in about 9 mins.