My grandson is coming over today, so I decided to make some Christmas Cookies for him to enjoy after dinner or before dinner or during dinner, whatever.
What I did is use a recipe, unwritten, of course, and stored in my head from my Mom when she baked a specific Jewish dish called Hamentoshen. It consists of the following:
1. 1 cup of butter which equals 2 sticks of butter.
2. 1 cup of sugar
3. 1 tbs of vanilla
4. zest of 1 orange
5. zest of 1 lemon
6. 1 package of Philly cream cheese
7. 2 eggs
Make sure the butter and cream cheese is softened for a mixer.
Cream together the above ingredients until they are smooth.
Add 3 cups of sifted all purpose flour until a smooth dough and texture is achieved. The dough should not be sticky and easy to roll. If it appears sticky, then add a little bit of flour until you have the texture you are looking for.
Roll the dough into one inch balls and place on an un-greased cookie sheet. Using your thumb, punch an impression deep enough to hold some preserves of your choice. I used peach and strawberry. Then place a 1/2 teaspoon of preserves into the depression.
Preheat your oven for 375 degrees. Place the cookie tray into the oven and bake for 23 minutes.
When you remove the cookies, place the tray on a wire rack to cool for a few minutes, then, move to a serving plate.
After 15 minutes sprinkle the cookies with powdered confection sugar.
Then give them to someone else to eat because they are as fattening as hell.
My wife is my taster and she said they were good. Here's a few pictures of the process.
And, it gave me another opportunity to use this big fellow which made the results very easy!
Thanks for looking.
MERRY CHRISTMAS! (not happy holidays)
Ed
