Saturday, February 16, 2013

Ranger Cookies





Ranger Cookies

Ingredients

½ cup butter, softened
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup packed brown sugar
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
1 cup coconut
1 cup raisins, dried cherries, dried cranberries or mixed dried fruit bits

Method

1.                  Preheat oven to 375°F.  In a large mixing bowl beat butter with electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.  Add granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, and baking soda.  Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally.  Beat in egg and vanilla until combined.  Beat in as much as the flour as you can with the mixer.  Stir in any remaining flour.  Stir in rolled oats, coconut, and raisins.
2.                  Drop dough by rounded teaspoons 2 inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are light brown and centers are set.  Cool on cookie sheet 1 minute.  Transfer to a wire rack and let cool.

Ranger Cookies were made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Recipe was taken from Better Homes and Garden New Cook Book “14th Edition”; the chapter on Cookies and Bars; page 245.




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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Valentine’s Heart Shape Cookies







Valentine’s Heart Shape Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups flour

Method
1.                  Preheat oven to 400°F.
2.                  In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer.
3.                  Beat in egg and vanilla.
4.                  Mix baking powder and flour, add one cup at a time, mixing after each addition.  The dough will be very stiff; blend last flour in by hand (if dough becomes too stiff, add water, a teaspoon at a time).  Do not chill dough.

Note:  Dough can be tinted with icing Color.  Add small amounts until desired color is reached.

For chocolate cookies:  Stir in 3 ounces melted, unsweetened chocolate.  Divide dough into 2 balls.  On a floured surface, roll each ball into a circle approximately 12 inches in diameter and ⅛ in thick.  Dip cutters in flour before each use.  Bake cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet on top rack of oven to 6 – 7 minutes, or until cookies are lightly browned.   Makes 20 -24 average size cookies.

Valentine’s Heart Shape Cookies were made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Recipe was taken from “Wilton Cake Decorating Yearbook” yearbook 1997 on Cookie Recipes page 94. 


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