HOLIDAY RECIPES
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Xmas Candy Crisp
(provided by Mom F)
6 cups Crispex (Albertson's Honey flavor)
3 cups honey nut cheerios (walmart)
1 pound M&M's (regular)
10 oz bag of small pretzels (round ones at walmart)
1 1/2 pounds white chocolate (you may want to use a tad more)
12 oz light salted peanuts
mix all dry ingredients very good. Melt your chocolate very slowly on very low
heat (stove or microwave). Be sure to read the directions on the melting on the
package of chocolate. Mix chocolate with dry ingredients really good. Grease a
cookie sheet (you may need 3 sheets) and "pour" on the cookie sheet evenly
before the chocolate dries. Use a spoon if necessary. Let it dry and it is ready
to munch. Keep in tight container.
Good Luck & Have fun!!!
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Xmas Decorating Cookies
(provided by Mom W)
1 cup Crisco
2 teaspoons Vanilla
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
2 teaspoons Salt
1/2 cup Butter
3 and 1/2 cups Sugar
4 Eggs
5 cups Flour
Mix butter, sugar, and Crisco. Whip eggs with a fork and add vanilla. Add this
to shortening mixture (butter, sugar, Crisco). Blend in remainder of
ingredients. Chill for two hours or over night.
Roll some dough into a ball and press it out flat (but not too thin) using a
pastry rolling pin. Do this directly on a cookie sheet that does not need to be
greased. Cut cookies out with a cookie cutter (snowman, xmas tree, etc) and
remove excess dough to use for another cookie. Keep the dough in the fridge
while others are baking or being decorated. Decorate cookies prior to cooking
with decorative sugars and morsels. Or, you can put frosting on these cookies,
after they are cooked and cooled.
Bake at 400 degrees for 6 minutes. Watch them so that the edges do not burn.
If your oven runs a bit hot you may want to turn it to 375. If the cookies
are thick, you may need to cook them longer.
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