Million JB Cookie Recipe 12/15/11 drawing

[Knit2Purl2]

Ready to add a million Java Bucks to your stash? Enter your favorite holiday cookie recipe here. Enter as many times as you wish. One entry = a separate post in this thread with a complete recipe, preferably one that you've tried and enjoyed rather than a random internet search recipe.

The drawing will be held on December 15th, 2011. I'll use the Random Number Generator to choose the winner. Good luck to all entrants!

[luna236]

NorthPole.com is awesome for cookies, they have at least 300 recipes.  I think the best holiday cookies are definitely regular sugar cookies in holiday shapes with icing and sprinkles.

• 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
• 2 cups white sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 5 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt

1. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.

[tomandlorih]

Not homeade, but the kids and I enjoy making them=D  These are the ones we did 2 years ago.. 

Santa Cookies

Nutter Butter cookies
White chocolate chips or vanilla almond bark
Red decorating sugar
Mini marshmallows, cut in half
Mini chocolate chips
Red hots or red mini M&M's

Melt chips/bark according to pkg directions. Dip beard end and allow to harden(freezer works well). Dip hat end in bark then in red sugar, press on marshmallow while still wet. Attach "eyes" and "nose" with leftover bark.

Easy and fun addition to a Christmas cookie plate or just a quick cookie to do with your kids if you don't have time or energy to do the whole rolled sugar cookie thing.

Source: the web somewhere;-) Taste of Home maybe?

[londamg]

i only tried them once last christmas but plann to do them again this year.

mint chocolate chip cookies. they looked gross but tasted so yummy

1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix

1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened

1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon mint extract

6 to 8 drops green food color

1 egg

1 cup creme de menthe baking chips

1 cup semisweet chocolate chunks

Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, stir cookie mix, butter, extract, food color and egg until soft dough forms. Stir in creme de menthe baking chips and chocolate chunks.

Using small cookie scoop or teaspoon, drop dough 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until set. Cool 3 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Serve warm or cool completely. Store tightly covered at room temperature.

[Knit2Purl2]

Thanks to everyone who is contributing recipes. This year I'm looking forward to expanding my repertoire.

[emarieo]

Molasses Cookies

When my kids were small this was one of our favorite cookies to make together...we called them "poo poo" cookies because that's just what the unbaked dough looks like!  But they are yummy!

Ingredients

2/3 cup vegetable oil

1 cup white sugar

1 egg

1/4 cup molasses

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1/3 cup white sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).

In a large bowl mix oil and 1 cup of sugar. Add egg, beat well. Stir in molasses, 2 cups flour, baking soda and spices. If necessary, add more flour to make a firm dough.

Shape dough into 1 1/4 inch balls. Roll in 1/3 cup sugar. Place 3 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until tops crack. Remove from baking sheet and cool on rack.  This makes a crispy cookie...if you want your cookies soft and chewy cut your baking time to about 10 minutes.

[daerca574]

Orange Cranberry Drop Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 egg
• 3 tablespoons orange juice
• 1/2 teaspoon orange extract
• 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup dried cranberries

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F(190 degrees C). Lightly grease cookie sheets, or line with parchment paper.
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the white sugar, brown sugar, and butter. Stir in the egg, orange juice, orange extract, and orange zest. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; mix into the orange mixture. Stir in the dried cranberries. Drop cookie dough by heaping teaspoonfuls, 2 inches apart, on the prepared cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until edges are starting to brown. Cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

[MaMa_Moo]

My favorite cookie is: Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

You can make them homemade if you want, but all I do is get a package of Pillsbury Peanut Butter Cookies. Bake them according to the package and as they are cooling you pop a mini Reeces peanut butter cup on the top of each one. Everyone loves these and no one will know you cheated! (A lot of people will use hershey's kisses instead of peanut butter cups, I just like those better).

[Knit2Purl2]

Drum Roll please!

From the Random.org, Recipe #4 is our winner, Emarie0 for 1 million JB!

8:12 PM, Dec 15, 2011

I gave 1,000,000 Java Bucks to emarieo.

[Knit2Purl2]

And as a thank you for entering....

8:15 PM, Dec 15, 2011

I gave 100,000 Java Bucks to luna236.

8:16 PM, Dec 15, 2011

I gave 100,000 Java Bucks to tomandlorih.

8:18 PM, Dec 15, 2011

I gave 100,000 Java Bucks to londamg.

8:19 PM, Dec 15, 2011

I gave 100,000 Java Bucks to daerca574.

8:20 PM, Dec 15, 2011

I gave 100,000 Java Bucks to MaMa_Moo.

[londamg]

thank you so much! this will help me for sure while im back and forth adding and removing the slide/radio and crab :)