Cookies/candy recipes for holidays ....without nuts...?

Question

I asked this question yesterday but I guess it wasn't reaklly understood..M ydaughter and I always bake a treat for my family for the holidays. My niece is allergic to peanuts(found this year) so it cannot contain NUTS OR ANYTHING THAT could have nuts in it which most chocolate does. Does anyone have any suggestion for recipes besides gingerbread men? Thank you.

Answer 1

Pennsylvania Dutch Snickerdoodles

3 ¾ c. Flour
½ t. Soda
½ t. Cream of Tartar
¼ t. Salt
1 c. Butter
2 c. Sugar
2 Eggs
¼ c. Milk
1 tsp. Vanilla
¼ c. Sugar
2 t. Cinnamon

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a small bowl, mix together flour, soda, cream of tartar, and salt. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, and milk and vanilla until well blended. In a small bowl, mix together sugar and cinnamon. Form into 1 inch balls and roll in the sugar cinnamon mixture and place onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes.


Ginger Crinkles

¾ c. Butter
1 c. Sugar
1 Egg, beaten
4 T. Molasses
½ t. Salt
2 t. Baking Soda
1 t. Ginger
1 t. Cloves
2 c. Flour
1 c. Flame Raisins

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together butter sugar and egg. Add molasses, salt, baking soda, spices, and flour and mix until well blended. Fold in raisins. Form into 1 inch balls and roll in sugar. Place onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake 8-10 minutes.


Pumpkin Bars w/ Cream Cheese Frosting

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
4 beaten eggs
1 (16 ounce) can pumpkin (I can only find 15oz cans and that seams to work just fine)
1 cup cooking oil

1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups sifted powdered sugar

In a large mixing bowl stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and cloves. Stir in the eggs, pumpkin, and oil till combined. Spread batter in an ungreased 15x10x1-inch baking pan. Bake in a 350-degree oven 25 to 30 minutes or till a wooden toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 2 hours on a wire rack. Beat together soft cream cheese; soft butter/margarine; and vanilla till light and fluffy. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating well to reach spreading consistency. Spread ontop of bars.


Christmas Wreaths

1/4 lb margarine/butter
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/2 teaspoons green food coloring
24 fresh marshmallows
4 cups corn flakes
72 small red cinnamon candies

In a double boiler or large saucepan, melt margarine/butter with vanilla and green food coloring. Add marshmallows and stir until melted and smooth. Add corn flakes. Remove from heat and mix to coat. Drop by heaping tablespoons onto waxed paper and form into wreaths. Add 3 cinnamon candies to represent berries on poinsettas. Cool and enjoy!

Or this variation: http://www.recipezaar.com/149366

Browse these holiday cookie/dessert recipes at Kraft (Kraft is a company that discloses allergies on their product labels, i.e peanuts):

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/ff/HolidayFocus/cookierecipes.htm

http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/ff/HolidayFocus/dessertsnew.htm

Answer 2

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Answer 3

ORANGE CREAMS

100g butter
100g Castor sugar
2 level teaspoons golden syrup
1 egg yolk
finely grated rind of an orange
200g plain flour
1/2 level teaspoon cream of tartar
1 level teaspoon baking powder
50g extra butter
75g icing sugar
orange juice

Grease two or three baking trays. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in the syrup, egg yolk and orange rind. Sift the flour, cream of tartar and baking powder over the creamed ingredients and fold with a metal spoon to give a soft dough.
Shape the dough into 36 balls about the size of large marbles and set them well apart on the baking sheets.
Bake just above the centre of the oven at 190degrees Celsius for about 20 minutes, or until lightly coloured and risen.
Cool on a wire rack.
For the filling, beat the butter until soft, then gradually beat in the icing sugar with as much orange juice as the filling will take without becoming too soft.
Colour it pale orange.
Spread the filling over half the biscuits, and sandwhich together

Answer 4

DON'T use the Almond Extract below: USE extra Vanilla Extract or Peppermint Extract instead.

Cornflake Wreath Cookies Recipe
1/2 C. butter
3 C. miniature marshmallows
1/2 t. almond extract
1/2 t. vanilla extract
1 t. green food color
4 C. corn flakes
red hot candies
Melt butter, add marshmallows, stirring until all marshmallows are melted. Add extracts and food coloring; stir until it is a uniform green color. When mixture is smooth, add corn flakes; mix well but gently so as not to crush the cornflakes. Form into wreath shapes on sheets of waxed paper, decorate with red cinnamon candies. Let cool.
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmascandy/hollyca.htm

YOU should be able to find some nutless cookie and candy recipes on below links...

Christmas Cookie Recipes
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmas/cookie-recipes/cookie_index.htm
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmas/cookie-recipes/cookie_index2.htm
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmas/cookie-recipes/cookie_index3.htm

Christmas Cookies Bar Recipes
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmas/bar.htm
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmas/cookie-bars.htm
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmas/cookie-bars-3.htm

Christmas Candy Recipes
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmascandy/index.htm
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmascandy/candy-recipes.htm
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmascandy/candy-recipes-3.htm

Answer 5

This one might be ok, just check the candy bar to see if it is made by a process that also does nuts.

ANGEL FOOD BUTTERFINGER DESSERT

Angel food cake
1/4 c. butter
4 egg yolks
2 c. powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 pt. whipping cream
Butterfinger Bars (candy bars)

Break 1/2 or a little more of an angel food cake in small pieces. Cover the bottom of a 9"x13" pan with cake pieces.
Whip butter, egg yolks, powdered sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Whip the whipping cream and add to above mixture. Pour cream mixture over cake pieces. Then sliver Butterfinger candy bars and sprinkle over cream mixture. Refrigerate overnight.

Answer 6

Go ahead and make your favorite baked treat as normal, just eliminate the nuts! Just because a recipe list nuts as an ingredient doesn't mean you need to include them.

Answer 7

Check out the web site www.kraftfoods.com. You can look up so many recipes and also filter by the ingredients. There are so many to choose from. Also a whole section that you can make with your daughter. Have fun and Happy Holidays.

Answer 8

Here's a recipe for vanilla fudge. The nuts are optional, you could top it with some kind of decorative Christmas candy instead. Lots of fudge recipes online with no nuts.

http://www.recipecottage.com/candy/vanilla-fudge.html

Answer 9

Holiday Cookie Projects: Snowflakes, Dreidel Trios, and Ornaments


8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, slightly softened
3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1/2 cup dark molasses (not blackstrap)
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 1/4 cups cake flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

For decorating:
4 cups confectioners' sugar
6 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Food coloring
Colored sugar

Cream the butter in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer) until smooth. Add the sugar and mix. Add the egg and mix. Add the molasses and vanilla and mix. Sift the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves together. Working in batches, and mixing just until combined after each addition, add the dry ingredients to the butter-sugar mixture. Shape the dough into a thick disk, wrap in waxed paper, and refrigerate 1 to 2 hours.

Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 1 or 2 sheet pans. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out 1/4-inch thick.

Icing decorations:
Stir the confectioners' sugar, milk, and vanilla together until smooth.

To make snowflakes:
Use a snowflake-shaped cookie cutter to cut out the cookies, rerolling the scraps as needed. If you plan to hang the cookies, use a toothpick to make the holes in the dough about 1/8-inch wide, keeping in mind that the holes will shrink as the cookies bake. Bake until firm, 12 to 15 minutes, and let cool on the pan. Using only white icing and a pastry bag fitted with the smallest plain tip, pipe thin lines from the center of the cookie out to the points, like spokes of a wheel. Connect the spokes with thin lines in between them, making a spiderweb effect to make it look like a snowflake. Let the icing harden before threading the cookies onto wire, string or yarn for hanging.

To make dreidel trios:
Use a dreidel cookie cutter and cut out 3 cookies. Lay 1 on a greased sheet pan. Fanning out at an angle, with the handles overlapping at the top, lay 2 more dreidels next to the first one (it will look like a paper-doll effect). The handle is now 3 layers thick; press on it gently to thin it slightly and make it larger. Repeat with the remaining dough, rerolling the scraps as needed. If you plan to hang the cookies, use a toothpick to make a hole in the handle about 1/8-inch wide, keeping in mind that the hole will shrink as the cookies bake. Bake until firm, 12 to 15 minutes, and let cool on the pan. Color some of your icing blue with food coloring, or use blue colored sugar and white icing together. Using a pastry bag fitted with a small plain tip, pipe Hebrew letters or stars of David on the cookies' faces. Sprinkle the sugar on the icing while the icing is still wet. Let the icing harden before threading the cookies onto wire, string, or yarn for hanging.

To make ornaments:
Use any holiday-themed cookie cutter to cut out the cookies, rerolling the scraps as needed. If you plan to hang the cookies, use a toothpick to make holes in the dough about 1/8 inch wide, keeping in mind that the holes will shrink as the cookies bake. Bake until firm, 12 to 15 minutes, and let cool on the pan. Meanwhile, color some of your icing in festive colors with food coloring, or use colored sugars. Using a pastry bag fitted with the smallest plain tip, pipe a few colorful borders and decorations on the cookies. When set, add more lines of icing in white. Let the icing harden before threading the cookies onto wire, string, or yarn for hanging.

Answer 10

How about banana cream pie made with graham cracker pie crust?