Mexican Wedding Cookies

Ingredients:

2	cups all-purpose flour
1	cup pecans, finely chopped
1/4	teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4	teaspoon salt
1	cup butter or margarine, softened
1/4	cup granulated sugar
1/4	cup powdered sugar
2	teaspoons vanilla
	Additional powdered sugar (approximately 3/4 cup)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. In Small Batter Bowl, combine flour, pecans, cinnamon, and salt; mix well and set aside.
2. In Classic Batter Bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed of electric mixer until creamy. Add vanilla; beat well. Gradually add flour to butter mixture; beat on low speed just until dry ingredients are incorporated.
3. Using Small Scoop, drop level scoops of dough, 1 inch apart, onto flat Baking Stone. Bake 12-14 minutes or until cookies are set but not brown. Remove cookies to Stackable Cooling Rack; cool 5 minutes. While cookies are still warm, roll in additional powdered sugar to coat. Cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough.

Yield: About 4 dozen cookies

Nutrients per serving: (2 cookies): Calories 160, Total fat 11 g, Saturated Fat 5 g, Cholesterol 20 mg, Carbohydrate 15 g, Protein 2 g, Sodium 100 mg, Fiber less than 1 g

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Celebration Cookie Mix

Ingredients:

1/2	cup granulated sugar
3/4	cup sweetened dried cranberries
1/2	cup white or semi-sweet chocolate morsels
3/4	cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2	cups all-purpose flour
1/2	teaspoon baking powder
1/2	teaspoon baking soda
1/4	teaspoon salt
1	cup quick or old-fashioned oats
1/2	cup pecan or walnut halves, coarsely chopped

Directions:

1. In Small Batter Bowl, layer ingredients as follows, gently patting each layer before adding the next ingredient: granulated sugar, cranberries, chocolate morsels, brown sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, oats and pecans. Cover with lid. Attach the preparation directions below and give it as a gift.

Yield: 3 dozen cookies

Nutrients per serving: (1 cookie): Calories 120, Total Fat 6 g, Saturated Fat 3 g, Cholesterol 25 mg, Carbohydrate 16 g, Protein 2 g, Sodium 85 mg, Fiber less than 1 g

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Celebration Cookies

3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 recipe Celebration Cookie Mix

Preheat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, combine butter, eggs and vanilla; mix until well blended. Add cookie mix to butter mixture; mix until well blended. Using Medium Scoop, drop 12 level scoops of dough, 2 inches apart, onto Rectangle Stone. Flatten dough slightly using back of scoop. Bake 13-15 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Cool 5 minutes; remove to cooling rack.

It's Christmas Time, Time for Gumdrop Cookies

So, we lost this recipe this year & I went bazerk looking for it! I had to call my Grandma Wallace and have her pull it out and dust it off. It is a holiday traditional cookie for my family, and we can't go a year without them! So I am putting it on here...

Gumdrop Cookies

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups quick-cooking oatmeal
• 1 cup packaged sweetened coconut
• 1 cup gum drops , cut into pieces
• Powdered Sugar
  

Cream the butter, margarine and sugar together in a mixer. Add vanilla, and the eggs one at a time until well blended. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the sifted flour to the butter and egg mixture and mix well. BY HAND (if you try to use your electric mixer, you will be in need of a new one!), stir in the coconut flakes, oatmeal and sliced gumdrops (I've read that if you put the gumdrops into a bowl of sugar & cut the gumdrops, it helps with the sticking. My family tradition is, we have a cup of very warm water and cut them with a knife dipped in the water. This is a VERY messy, but utterly delightfully fun task!)until just mixed.

Refrigerate the dough until it is well-chilled (at least 3 hours). Chilling the dough will help the cookies keep their shape.

Once the dough is chilled, pre-heat the oven to 350°F. Take about 1 heaping tablespoon of dough and roll into a ball. Place on a greased or parchment lined cookie sheet about 6 inches apart. Bake for about 10 minutes or until light brown.

Place the Powdered Sugar into a deep bowl. Once taking the cookies out of the oven, let them sit for 2-3 mins to cool a bit then toss into the Powdered Sugar to coat well.

Stand back and watch the magic happen =)