Need a couple easy and
budget friendly Christmas cookies to whip up at the last minute? No
worries. I’ve got you covered.
These cookie recipes come from my Better Homes & Gardens red plaid
cookbook. My grandmother gave it to me
one year for Christmas and amazingly I’ve had it long enough for it to now be
considered vintage. Yep. I’m that old. There is nothing "new" about this old cookbook. Nonetheless, these two cookie recipes have long been family
favorites. Enjoy!
Thumbprint Cookies
2/3 c. butter or margarine
½ c. sugar
2 egg yolks (save the
whites)
1 tsp vanilla
1 ½ c. flour
jam, any flavor
Beat sugar and eggs together until creamy. Add egg and vanilla to butter and sugar mixture. Combine well. Stir in flour. Cover dough and chill in the freezer so dough is easier to handle.
While the dough chills make this next cookie.
Coconut Macaroons – A Five Ingredients Or Less Recipe
2 egg whites
½ teaspoon vanilla
2/3 c. sugar
1 1/3 c. flaked coconut
Preheat oven to 325 °. Lightly grease a baking sheet, set aside. In a medium mixing bowl beat with egg whites until peaks start to form. Add vanilla. Gradually add sugar and continue to beat until stiff peaks form. Fold in coconut with a wooden spoon carefully so you don’t over mix. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes until they just begin to brown. Remove to cooling rack. Store in an airtight container. Makes two dozen cookies.
While the cookies bake:
Remove the other dough from the freezer and roll into one inch sized balls. Place balls on baking sheet about one inch apart. Press your thumb into the center of each ball. Bake cookies at 375° for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove to cooling rack. Fill each depression with a little jam and allow cookies to cool completely. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
There you have
it! Two very simple recipes to whip up five dozen delicious cookies
with minimal effort and ingredients. They look so pretty and you
will get rave reviews on these cookies too. Enjoy
Yum!
ReplyDeletePerfect for a cookie tray.
My plaid is a soft cover and it's been falling apart for years and I feel like I don't use it enough! So many good recipes. My kids gave it to me decades ago so of course I just keep gluing the pages back in.
Mine has taken a beating over the years too. I had to zip tie the cover to the three ring part. LOL
DeleteThunbprint cookies are some of our favorite cookies. I do not have the plaid cookbook, but the "red" Betty Crocker cookbook. My mother-in-law gave it to me for Christmas shortly before my husband and I married. I have referred to it repeatedly, and it is in quite a state if disrepair from constant, active, kitchen use. Funny thing, though, that earlier this fall I found a pristine copy while I was poking around a thrift shop. At $1.25, it came home with me! I still have heart strings to my battered, torn copy with margin notes, though.
ReplyDeleteYears ago I had decluttered my Betty Crocker and then regretted it. I found a replacement copy, like new, at a thrift store a couple years ago and snapped it right up - no regrets! I'd keep the old one too. ;)
DeleteThank you so much for the coconut macaroon recipe. My Mum absolutely loves macaroons and I think she would really enjoy some real homemade ones. I make shortbread for her but haven't attempted macaroons. I will do so tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Xxx
Enjoy my friend! :o)
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