Shorbread

I don’t know where this recipe came from.  Egg is very unusual in shortbread

Yield

3-4 dozen

Ingredients

  • ½ lb. butter ( 1 cup)
  • 1 egg old
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • Enough flour to handle without sticking to fingers

Directions

  1. Roll into balls, put on cookie sheet, press down lightly. No baking time, but I would presume a low over 275-300 for 10 minutes or so

Rolled Oats Short Bread

Ingredients

3 dozen

  • 1 ¾ cup flour
  • 1tsp Baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 cup margarine or butter
  • ½ cup brown sugar,
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • vanilla
  • 1- 1/2 cup rolled oats (too much)

Directions

  1. Mix as short bread
  2. Put on greased baking sheet in 325 degree over for 20 – 30 min.

Rita’s Shortbread

Brown Sugar – Rita McKibbon

Ingredients

5-6 dozen

Ingredients

  • See directions

Directions

  1. 1 lb. butter fairly soft
  2. Beat until light. Add ½ tsp soda and beat carefully. Add 1 packed cup brown sugar, and continue beating.
  3. Slowly add, and beat well, 4 cups flour
  4. Pat to ¼ inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutter.
  5. Bake at 250 to 275 degrees, watch closely.

Quaker Oats Vanishing Oatmeal Cookie

25 ways to trick out your oatmeal cookies
add extra cinnamon and chocolate chunks
add dried cherries, crystallized ginger and a dash of powdered ginger
add chopped dried pineapple and toasted coconut
add finely chopped granny smith apple
add dried currants plumped in orange juice, and the zest of one orange
add chopped toffee bits and toasted almond slices
add dried wild blueberries and nutmeg
add chocolate chips and pecan halves
add white chocolate chips and toasted walnuts
add a few handfuls of any Trader Joe’s trail mix
add a tablespoon of powdered espresso and cocoa nibs
add chopped dried pears and white chocolate chunks
add chopped candied orange peel
add dried cranberries and pumpkin pie spice
add chocolate chunks and salted peanuts
add grated raw carrot and toasted walnuts
add chopped dates and toasted coconut
add chocolate chips, chopped walnuts & mini-marshmallows
add about a cup of Rice Krispies cereal
Chocolate-Dipped: Bake jumbo cookies and allow to cool. Cut cookies into quarters and dip each pointed end in melted semi-sweet chocolate. Allow chocolate to set, and serve.
Oatmeal Black and Whites: bake large oatmeal cookies and cool. Make chocolate and white icings (try these icing recipes). Frost one half of each cookie with dark icing, and the other half with white.
Oatmeal Faux Macarons: make small, puffy oatmeal cookies and sandwich two with chocolate ganache. Allow ganache to set, and serve.
Orange-Glazed Oatmeal Cookies: make a light glaze by mixing 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 1/2 tablespoons orange juice, and pinch of grated orange zest. Drizzle over cookies and allow to dry.
Oatmeal Cookie Dip: Bake mini oatmeal cookies, and make chocolate yogurt dip: whisk one cup vanilla yogurt with one tablespoon of cocoa powder and one tablespoon brown sugar. Chill for an hour, then serve with cookies and fresh strawberries.
Brandied Cherry Oatmeal Ice Cream Sandwiches: soak dried cherries in brandy and drain. Add to oatmeal dough; bake jumbo cookies and cool. Sandwich with good-quality cherry ice cream and freeze.

Yield

4 dozen

Ingredients

  • 1/2 pound (2 sticks) margarine or butter, softened
  • 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
  • 3 cups Quaker® Oats (quick or old-fashioned, uncooked)
  • 1 cup raisins (optional)

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat margarine and sugars until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well. Add oats and raisins (if using raisins); mix well.
  2. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. (or cookie sheets lined with parchment paper) Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown – do not overbake. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Store tightly covered.
  3. makes about 4 dozen, depending on size of cookie

Philadelphia Cream Cheese Cookies

Bea Pinkess ( Auntie Bea)

A sandy, buttery cookie

Ingredients

6 dozen

  • 1 cup shortening
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 samll package Philadelphia cream cheese
  • 1 ¼ cup flour

Directions

  1. Mix all ingredients together at once.
  2. Form into balls, press down with glass dipped in sugar and top with nut or candied cherry – or dip balls in crushed nuts and press cherry into top
  3. Temperature 350 degrees
  4. Time 10-12 minutes
  5. Amount 6 dozen cookies