Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes - Your guide to Christmas Decorated Cookies

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Children and adults all love homemade cookies, especially during the holidays. Give your family a couple of new "All Time Favorite Cookies" for the holiday season!

Below 3 special Christmas recipes are preparing for the Christmas season.

1. New England Christmas Cookies

Ingredients:

- 3rd / 4 cup melted shortening
- 3rd / 4 cup melted butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup blanched slicedAlmonds
- 3 beaten eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 1 / 2 cups flour
- 1 1 / 2 teaspoon baking soda

Directions:

- Fusi cream and sugar ingredients.
- Add eggs and mix the cream.
- Sift together all dry ingredients and beat into batter.
Stir - almonds.
- Dough into small rolls and wrap in greaseproof paper.
- Keep in the refrigerator overnight.
- Thin slices and bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Not more than bake

2. ChristmasCookie Slices

Ingredients:

Mixture Dark:

- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 / 4 teaspoon salt
- 1 / 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 1 / 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup raisins, ground
- 1 cup walnuts, ground

For the mixture Light:

- 2 cups flour
- 1 / 4 teaspoon salt
- 1 / 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 / 2 cup shortening
- 3 / 4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoonVanilla
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 / 4 cup chopped candied cherries

Dark Mixture:

- Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt and spices.
- Reducing Cream with brown sugar, add eggs and beat well.
Mix - In the dry ingredients, walnuts and raisins.

Light mixture:

- Sift together flour, salt and soda.
- Reduction cream and sugar, eggs, vanilla and water and mix well.
- Blend the dry ingredients.
- Stir in cherries.
- Pack half the mixture of darkin the sheet pan with waxed paper lined 10 1 / 2 x 3 1 / 2 x 2 1 / 2 inches.
- Add all the dough easy to make a second layer, top with pasta remaining dark.
- Pack firmly. Refrigerator for at least 24 hours.
- Halving Remove from pan and cut lengthwise pasta.
- Then layer 1 / 4 inch slices.
- Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 400 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
- Immediately remove from pan.

3. Christmas Cookie Wreaths

Ingredients:

- 2 eggs beaten
- 1 / 2 cupButter
- 1 cup chopped raisins
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 / 2 teaspoon ginger
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 tablespoons fresh cream
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 1 / 2 cups sifted flour ()

Directions:

- Butter and sugar in a bowl until creamy.
- Egg and cream.
- Add the other ingredients and stir until the mixture becomes a paste.
- Enter in the cold refrigerator.
- HeatingPreheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Remove, cut, cut your dough from the refrigerator and small pieces.
- Role forms crown.
- On an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake 12 minutes.
- Cool the cookies.
- Add decorations if desired.