Anyone got a really yummy recipe for Christmas biscuits orcookies?

Answer 1

EGGNOG COOKIES

Dough:
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup Borden Eggnog
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
5-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Icing:
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/3 cup Borden Eggnog

Dough: Beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggnog, baking soda, and nutmeg; mix well. Gradually add flour; mix well. Divide dough in half. Wrap half in plastoic wrap and chill overnight in refrigerator or 2 hours in freezer.

Preheat oven to 375°F / 190°C. On a floured surface, roll out half the dough to 1/8 inch thickness. Using your floured cookie cutters, cut out desired shapes. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets. Continue with the rest of the dough until all is used.

Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool. Ice and decorate as desired once cooled.

Icing: Beat together confectioners' sugar and butter until well blended using an electric mixer. Gradually beat in 1/3 cup eggnog until icing is smooth.
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Iced Ginger Cookies
Allysa Torey, “More From Magnolia: Recipes from the World-Famous Bakery”

Makes 2½ dozen

Cookie
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup vegetable oil (preferably canola)
1 cup sugar plus 1 tablespoon (for sprinkling)
1 large egg, at room temperature
1/2 cup light unsulphured molasses

Icing
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar, sifted
1 tablespoon solid vegetable shortening
2 teaspoons water

1. Preheat over to 350 degrees.
2. In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, and salt. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, on the medium speed of an electric mixer, beat together the oil and sugar for 2-3 minutes. Add the egg and molasses, and beat well.
4. Add the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets, leaving several inches between for expansion.
5. Sprinkle lightly with sugar. Bake for 12 minutes. Cool the cookies on the sheets for 5 minutes, and then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
6. To make the icing: Combine the sugar, shortening, and water, and beat until smooth and creamy. Cover until ready to use.
7. When the cookies are completely cool, spread a very thin layer of icing on each cookie with a small knife or spatula. Let the icing set before stacking the cookies or they will stick together.

(My note: I make a double recipe of the icing. I must put on more icing than they do because I run out with the original recipe's amount. But I also don't double the vegetable shortening (Crisco) -- about the same amount and just more water and conf's sugar.)
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Coconut Lime Sours
--Calling All Cooks, FoodTV

2 cups flour
4 tablespoons sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 stick plus 2 1/2 tablespoons margarine
4 eggs -- beaten
1 cup almonds -- chopped
2 cups light brown sugar -- firmly packed
3 cups sweetened flaked coconut
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 teaspoons lime zest

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl. Cut in margarine until mixture resembles coarse meal. Press crust into ungreased 10 by 15-inch baking pan. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

Mix eggs, nuts, brown sugar, and coconut until well blended; spread over baked crust. Bake an additional 30 minutes or until set.

While still warm, loosen the edges with a metal spatula. Mix together the powdered sugar, lime juice, and zest with a fork. Working quickly, spread the lime paste all over the top with a spatula while still warm. Let cool to room temperature and cut into bars. Cut 11 cuts crosswise and 3 cuts lengthwise.

Answer 2

CHRISTMAS BISCUITS

Ingredients

200g self-raising flour
100g butter, in cubes
100g light, soft brown sugar
½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ground ginger
1 egg, lightly beaten
12 clear boiled sweets
Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Pulse the flour and butter in a food processor until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the sugar and spices, then pulse again.
2. Tip into a bowl and add the egg, stirring until a dough comes together. Knead gently till smooth. Tip onto a lightly floured work surface and roll to the thickness of a £1 coin – about 3–4mm. Cut into stars with a cutter. Lift the stars carefully with a palette knife and place, spacing them evenly, on baking sheets lined with baking parchment. (To create a glassy centre in the biscuits, cut out a shape in the centre of half of the stars and fill with a clear boiled sweet.) Make a hole in the top of each biscuit with a chopstick.
3. Bake for 10–12 minutes till golden. Push the chopstick back into each of the holes while the biscuits are still soft. Leave to cool for 2 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer to a wire rack. When cool, you can decorate the biscuits with a simple icing made from icing sugar and water; add balls or colour, and thread with ribbon to hang on the tree.


john

Answer 3

Elf Biscuits

Ingredients
1 (5 1/3-ounce) package graham crackers (1 sleeve)
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup chopped pecans or almonds

Arrange 11 whole graham crackers on an ungreased 15- x 10-inch jellyroll pan.
Bring butter, sugar, and pecans to a boil in a medium saucepan; boil 2 minutes. Pour mixture on crackers, spreading quickly to cover.

Bake at 300° for 12 minutes. Remove crackers to wax paper to cool. Cut with a knife along perforations


Blue Cheese Biscuits

2 cups self-rising flour
1 (8-ounce) container sour cream
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 (4-ounce) package crumbled blue cheese

Stir together all ingredients just until blended.
Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Pat dough to a 3/4-inch thickness; cut with a 2-inch round cutter. Place dough rounds on a lightly greased baking sheet.

Bake at 425° for 15 to 18 minutes or until lightly browned

Answer 4

This is a recipe for a Danish pastry called "Klejner".

You'll need:
1 kg. of flour
250 g. of margarine
2 cups of sugar
1 teaspoon of baking powder
4 eggs
1,5 cups of milk

Mix the margarine with the sugar, flour and baking powder.
Mix in the eggs and milk and kneed.

roll the dough to about 0,5 cm in thickness.
first cut them vertically then diagonally.
Cut a hole in the middle of the pastry and put the one end through.

Leave them to rest for an hour. COOK them in grease, oil whatever you've got till they're light brown.

Answer 5

I live in Germany and this year I have made lots of Christmas cookies, the recipes are here
http://bretzeletcafecreme.blogspot.com/search/label/Collection%20sucr%C3%A9e

Answer 6

i make homemade Cinnamon roles by taking left over pie crust and rolling it out then adding a layer of butter or margarine and cinnamon and white sugar to taste

Answer 7

yeah get in your car. go to tesco and buy some. So much easier and quicker